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INDEPENDENT LENS
PBS
"Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story"
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 10 - 10:30 pm
Join us for this look at how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy and good intentions gone astray. Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village, in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium.
Learn more about Chavez Ravine at the companion Web site.
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Physically, Chavez Ravine was hardly in "the heart of downtown Los Angeles." However, one could certainly argue that, though it was tucked away at the edge of that city, it was historically and culturally the heart and soul of LA: and, for that matter, of all places in the S.W. U.S. where Hispanic culture and economy where destroyed by the forces of ignorance, prejudice and greed.
I cried when I read the book and I cried again when I saw the movie on PBS last night. I found this site in my effort to locate and buy a copy of the film.
It might, in some small way, help if history and social studies classes in the U.S. showed this film. T.J. Harrison - Tucson, AZ
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