La Pensa San Diego – “Reunited and It Feels So Good”

by Raymond Beltran, Report on the end of the Centro Boycott, 2007:

This Wednesday, artists re-entered a place they hadn’t seen in nearly seven years, El Centro Cultural de la Raza, an old city-water-tank-turned-arts-venue created by Chicanos back in 1970.

They’ve been boycotting it, with vigor, after a new board of directors took control in 2000, uncompromisingly changing by-laws, ousting members and dismantling committees that had been in place for three decades.

This year, with the help of a third party resolution group, a long awaited compromise between the old guard and the new has been achieved. A boycott that has tarnished reputations, led to demonstrations and a lawsuit, and more importantly, left Chicanos without a consistent cultural venue, has been lifted.

http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/2007/june29-07/Reunited.htm