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Dear Primos and Friends:
Happy New Year. January 2016 fills me with real wonder, and anxious anticipation, more than most years in the past. What will happen next?

It is an adventure for me to mount Somos Primos with the variety of articles which I receive. I am constantly learning. I hope to continue to inform and uplift. I will do my best to seek out positive current examples from the Latino community, as well as important events and historic figures from the past.

As my guide, I will be using the (KJV) Philippians 4:8:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things."

If your local newspaper has an article about a Latino or an event that is of "good report", just send the title, reporter, date and newspaper in which the piece was published and I will include their praise worthy involvements and accomplishments.

We want to applaud examples of good works in each other. And please, continue to share your family stories, your Cuentos . . . personal memories, life lessons which shape your attitude and give you strength to carry on. Yourvictories are praise worthy.

God bless America and our place in it.

~ Mimi

TABLE OF CONTENTS

UNITED STATES
United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera Memorializes San Bernardino Tragedy with a poem based on a
comment made by Detective Jorge Lozano: I'll take a
bullet
for you
Being Prepared for a Terrorist Attack: RUN, HIDE, FIGHT Terror Threat’ Closes Entire Los Angeles School District, December 15,
2015
Texas School District Arms Teachers and Staff Over-stayed VISAs, Untold Numbers and Untrackable What America Means To Most Of Us, and What We Fought For Man Walks into Chick-Fil-A: Is Completely Blown Away When He saw Veterans Day Display James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 Extended and Cap on Payments Removed.
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Filed by Those Who Found a WWI Memorial Cross Offensive Taking Stock by Daisy Wanda Garcia The Head of Joaquin Murrieta, documentary by John Valadez Semi-Finalists Announced - Latino Len Short Narrative Incubator Political Salsa y Mas with Sal Baldenego, "Barrio Dreams"
Race on Campus and Historically White Colleges and Universities (HWCUs) by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca Maldef Announces Scholarship Recipients and Releases 2015-2016 Law School Scholarship Application Reviewing the Immigration and Nationality Act passed June 27, 1952 The Refugee Crisis, Part 2, by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
Bravo, Costco by Sharon L. Davis, Budget Analyst, U.S. Department of Commerce Grandma's magic remedy: Mexico's medical marijuana secret
Nielsen: Latinos 50+ are Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

HERITAGE PROJECTS
Ignacio Gomez and Cesar Chavez Monuments in California and in Washington, DC The Spanish Horse in the History of the Development of the United States by Mimi Lozano HBO is exploring the possibility of a series about Spanish Adelantado Hernando Cortes.
Latinos in Heritage Conservation at the 2015 National Preservation Conference

HISTORIC TIDBITS
Judge Butler answers questions
El mito de la piratería inglesa
Nueva Filipinas (New Philippines) popularly known as Texas, USA!
Primeros Libros de las Americas
Collection of over 20 documentaries on Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution.
Flowered Dresses & Flour Mills: A Story of History & Kindness Josefa "Chipita" Rodríguez: Was she the first and only woman to be legally hanged in Texas?
December 2nd, 1862 -- Lucy Pickens's face appears on Confederate $100 bills Words and Phrases Remind us of the Way we Word by Richard Lederer

HISPANIC LEADERS
Gloria Contreras, Mexican Choreographer, dies at 81, November 25, 2015 Paul Victor Guzman Jr. Descendent of Founding families of Los Angeles, died Nov 20, 2015

AMERICAN PATRIOTS
Tell Me who Are the Jews Or Die by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller Photographic Military Collections, each line below is a clickable web link.

EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
José Francisco Ortega (1734 – February 1798) From Across the Spanish Empire by Leroy Martinez

SURNAMES
Apellidos Normandos en Camarias, Origenes y Notas Descriptivas por Eugenio Egea Molina

DNA
85% de la Población Mexicana es Mestiza

FAMILY HISTORY
The Influence on My Religious Beliefs, Part 2 by Refugio

EDUCATION
UTRGV’s Alvarez awarded prestigious U.S. Professor of the Year award by Carnegie-CASE'
The Ever Increasing Burden on America’s Public Schools by Jamie Robert Vollmer
20 Ideas for Teaching Citizenship to Children By Leah Davies, M.Ed.
Who Will Teach the Children? Franklin Schargel website Micro Thoughts on Chicana/o Studies by Rodolfo F. Acuña Chicano & Chicana Studies Programs (CCSP), Part II, Blog maintained by Margarito J. Garcia III, Ph.D.

CULTURE
Echo of the Mountain, life and work of Santos de la Torre, Huichol artist Cantemos catalog of Georgette Baker Origen y sentido de las piñatas por Antonio Guerrero Aguilar Paraguayan musical youth group that plays with instruments made out of garbage.
Words and Phases Remind Us of the Way We Word by Richard Lederer

BOOKS AND PRINT MEDIA
ISLA, The Int'l Society of Latino Authors: Public Speaking - The Perfect Side Career For Many Authors.
Nuestra America Magazine, 2016
Sofia’s Life by Lucas C. Jasso
I Will Fight Nevermore by Lucas C. Jasso Crooked Deals & Broken Treaties by John Tully

ORANGE COUNTY, CA
January 9th: SHHAR: The Story of Guy Gabaldon by Doris Hand Vibrant Origin, Story by Jessica Gelt
Popol Vuh: Watercolors of Diego Rivera at Bowers Museum Breathe of Fire, Latina Theater Ensemble, 6 week Playwriting Workshop Series Youth Movement nets $2 Million for Bike Lanes

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
The House of Aragon, Chapter 14 by Michael Perez Sister Ernestine Munana turned 100 Years Old

CALIFORNIA
January 28: Gathering Oral History All-Day Workshop Statues of Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta unveiled in Napa by Howard Yune China surpasses Mexico In Sending Immigrants To California Governor signed Education Bill AB 146 about Mexican repatriation during the depression.

Major Renovations Underway for Beloved La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA New Home Reunites Long-Separated Brothers Was Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo from Spain?
First European in California Was Spanish, Not Portuguese España gana un conquistador

NORTHWESTERN, US
A Glimpse of How Supreme Court Could Reshape US Elections by Warren Richey

SOUTHWESTERN, US
Mexicans and Mexican Americans: Prolegomenon to a Literary Perspective
by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

TEXAS
Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez was re-elected 17 times Did you know? Austin Hispanic Alamac, Statistical Portrait of Austin, Texas Rueben M. Perez awarded Texas State Genealogical Society First Place in
2015 Manuscript Division
Pictures of The Great Depression in San Antonio, Texas by Russell Lee for the United States Farm Security Joe López: The Rio Grande, Backbone of the Borderlands Christmas in Goliad by Joe Lopez My Mother-in-Law and Ursuline Academy in Laredo, Texas Texas State Historical Association's Education Programs

MIDDLE AMERICA
Alvárez Piñeda, 1519: Early Spanish explorers to Louisiana

EAST COAST
Luis Moises Gomez (c. 1660–1740[1] ) Sephardic Jewish merchant and trader Bernardo de Galvez, a Live Legacy Documentary

AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Afro-Hispanic Writer Anita Scott Coleman and the Harlem, Renaissance West

INDIGENOUS
Crooked Deals & Broken Treaties: How American Indians Were Displaced by White Settlers
in the Cuyahoga Valley by John Tully Future Generations Ride Oomaka Tokatakiya

SEPHARDIC
Rabbi Stephen Leon of Congregation B'nai Zion Scattered Among the Nations by Bryan Schwartz, Jay Sand, Sandy Carter Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

ARCHAEOLOGY
Almost Human, a new ancestor shakes up our family tree

MEXICO
Thousands Attend Mexico’s First-Ever LDS Women’s Conference Mexican Murals: Mamá, Yucatan Bautismo de Doña Marìa Teodora Castellano Torres Defunción del Capitán Don Rafael Ugartechea.
Presentación del Libro del Primer Congreso Nacional de Historica Militar de Mexico Reseña Histórica: Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León by John Inclan El Hospital de Jesús, el más antiguo de América construído en 1524 por Cortes

CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
Legendary Billion-Dollar Shipwreck Found Off Colombian Coast by Christopher Klein El Mestizaje en Iberoamerica Filmmaker in Search of Her Subject, part #1, My Trip to Lima, Peru by Eve A. Mae

OCEANIC PACIFIC
Supreme Court justice blocks Native Hawaiian vote count Hawaii was first discovered by Villalobos in 1542 and then by Juan de Gaitán en 1555, not James Cook

PHILIPPINES
The Miss Universe of 2015 is Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach Spanish terms in the Philippine Language by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
Women in our Global Economy by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.

SPAIN
Huelva, Spain, a historical documentary
Hernán Cortés, 45 minutes Spanish Documentary Año Genealógico Francisco Fernández de Bethencourt (1850-1916)

INTERNATIONAL
Here's the TRUE Non-Politically Correct History of Islam's Violence Pope Says Paris Terror Attacks Part Of 'Piecemeal Third World War'
Gun History Facts
A Terrorist Act is a Hate Crime