Latino Unidos GJ

11/03/2025

📢 ¡No te quedes fuera de estas elecciones! Complete su boleta y entréguela en el centro de votación 🗳 más cercano antes del 4 de noviembre a las 7 p.m.

¡Llame al Proyecto de Asuntos Hispanos, HAP, al 970-249-4115 si tiene preguntas sobre la votación!
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📢 Don't sit this election out! Fill out your ballot and drop it off at the nearest voting center 🗳 by November 4th by 7pm.

Call the Hispanic Affairs Project at 970-249-4115 if you have questions about voting.

08/14/2021

Five hundred years ago today, on August 13, 1521, the Templo Mayor, the great temple that stood at the heart center of the Aztec universe, modern-day Mexico City’s Zócalo, burned to the ground. The upcoming exhibition at the Denver Art Museum titled "Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche" was organized in part to coincide with this 500 year anniversary. See this tapestry in person that depicts this pivotal moment in history when the exhibition opens at the DAM on February 6, 2022: https://bit.ly/3wGOQmZ

Flames consumed the pyramid and the twin temples at its summit crumbled. Images of burning temples appear in Indigenous painted manuscripts, symbols of conquest and regime change. In Tenochtitlan, it too marked the beginning of the end, the dissolution of one of the largest Indigenous governments in the Americas, the Aztec empire. It initiated a new social order and political reality that would become Latin America.

Centuries later, the repercussions continue to be felt. For some, the Conquest is not over. Today, the Templo Mayor’s foundation—its many layers of construction—lie exposed like a cauterized wound, a reminder of both the world that was and the life and nation that its destruction generated. To commemorate the cataclysmic events of 1519-1521 is to acknowledge their enduring impact on the world as we know it.

Learn more about the current commemoration happening in Mexico City, here: https://bit.ly/37CPJ6e

Image: Leslie Tillett, "Tillett Tapestry of the Conquest of Mexico," 1965-1977. Hand embroidered silk on cotton cloth (manta); 28 in. x 100 ft. Denver Art Museum: Partial gift of the Tillett family; partial purchase with generous funds from Merle Chambers: In Memory of Evelyn Hemmings Chambers; Alianza de las Artes Americanas; Theodore and Nancie Burkett; Mexican Society of Philadelphia; Ralph L. & Florence R. Burgess Trust; Florence R. & Ralph L. Burgess Trust; Jana and Fred Bartlit; Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation; bequest of Jacqueline Paley Wolber by exchange; and anonymous donors, 2018.303. ©Estate of Leslie Tillett.

06/08/2021

Colorado always taking the lead 💚 This bill will create an immigration legal defense fund which will provide grants for qualifying non profit organizations that can help people with legal defense in Colorado!! 🤘🏽 this is the change I like to see!

04/23/2021

It is time for us to protect the agricultural workers that help put food on our tables. Join us in urging Colorado legislators to support SB21-087, the Agricultural Workers' Rights bill! https://tinyurl.com/SupportAgWorkerRights

Es hora de proteger a los trabajadores agrícolas que ayudan a poner comida en nuestras mesas. ¡Únase a nosotros para pedir a los legisladores de Colorado que apoyen la propuesta de ley para los trabajadores agrícolas SB21-087! https://tinyurl.com/SupportAgWorkerRights







Towards Justice Project Protect Food Systems Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition - CIRC Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights Colorado Jobs with Justice/Trabajos con Justicia Colorado AFL-CIO OneMorgan County Hunger Free Colorado FrontLine Farming Commún Denver

04/13/2021

03/26/2021

03/16/2021

African-American woman, Grand Junction, circa 1895.

This undated cabinet card photograph of an unidentified African-American woman was taken in Grand Junction in the studio of Thomas Evans Barnhouse (1830–1911) and Danford N. Wheeler (1841–1919).

We wish we had more information specifically about this woman to share with you, but there is no writing on either side of the cabinet card. Still, it should be understood that this photograph is a rarity. The 1885 Colorado State Census lists only one Black person living in the county that year, a sixty-five year-old male cook named Julian Lack, who had almost certainly been born a slave since both he and his parents were from North Carolina. An African-American community must have existed, though: Grand Junction’s founder, George Crawford, donated a piece of land to the community to build their own church upon, Handy Chapel, which opened in 1892 and is still in use.

So while there was an African-American presence in Mesa County from its very early days, they made up a very small and largely unacknowledged part of the population. Unfortunately when they were acknowledged, as they were a few times in one or another newspaper, especially after the turn of the twentieth century, it was often negatively, in editorials that discussed “the Negro problem.”

We know of one other photograph of a different Black woman that Barnhouse –– who opened his studio in Grand Junction in 1885 –– had taken in Grand Junction before his old Lake City partner Wheeler rejoined him here in 1890. Both men were Union Army veterans, having served in different Illinois volunteer infantry regiments, but Barnhouse was even originally from that northwestern part of Virginia that broke off from the rest of the state to become West Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union. It seems that he, at least, had no qualm against serving an African-American when it was becoming less common as the twentieth century approached.

Denise & Steve Hight
Historical Photos of Fruita & Western Colorado:
https://www.facebook.com/HistoricalFruitaPhotos/
Historical Photos of Women’s Stories:
https://www.facebook.com/HistoricalSuffragePhotos/

01/02/2021

New year new US

01/02/2021

¿Tiene una resolución para el año nuevo? Si le gustaría aprender inglés, el Centro de Educación de Montrose para Adultos tiene clases durante la mañana y la tarde. ¡Consulta el calendario e inscríbete!

Do you have a New Year’s resolution? If you would like to learn English, the Montrose Adult Education Center has clases during the day and evening. Check out the schedule and sign up!

01/02/2021

Mantenga la distancia para que pueda llegar hasta el final en 2021.

El 2020 ha sido intenso. Y aunque el año esté llegando a su final, no significa que vamos a tirar la toalla. Sigamos protegiéndonos usando nuestro tapabocas y manteniendo la distancia para poder darle una mejor bienvenida al 2021.

01/02/2021

Construí este grupo para Organizar y publicar información sobre la comunidad latina en Grand Junction y el Western Slope.

Grand Junction es una comunidad grande, pero también es una comunidad con mucha ignorancia y odio. Y por eso ay mucha intolerancia y racismo, y la comunidad latina lo conoce bien. Ay much ignorante en este pueblo, como en todo el país. Pero aki está profundamente grabado en las generaciones mayores.

Ya es hora que la comunidad latina en Grand Junction hable! Grite! Demanda! Para Decir que no nos pueden tratar así. Por qué nosotros somos una comunidad grande y fuerte. Y nuestros padres y madres, abuelos y abuelas ayudaron construireste a este pueblo y a haste país. Y tenemos todo el derecho de vivir y ser parte de esta comunidad. No importa de qué color, s**o, religión, edad, orientación s*xual, etc., todos tengamos las mismas libertades y libertades.

Les pido que por favor comparten esta página y like y subscriben. Se quieren ayudar que la voce latina en Grand Junction sea respetada y incluida!!

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I created this page to organize and publícate information regarding the latin community in Grand Junction and the Western Slope.

Grand Junction is a large community, but it is also a community with a lot of ignorance and hatred. And that is why there is a lot of intolerance and racism, and the Latino community here knows it well. There is a lot ignorant people in this town, just like much of the country.

It's time for the Latino community in Grand Junction to speak up! Scream! Demand! We will not be treated like second hand citizens. We are a large and strong community, our fathers and mothers, grandparents and grandmothers helped build this town and this country. And we have every right to live and be part of this community, No matter what color, s*x, religion, age, s*xual orientation, etc., we all have the same freedoms and freedoms.

I ask that you please share this page and like and subscribe. If you want to help the Latino voice in Grand Junction be heard, respected and included !!