La Prensa San Diego – “Seven Year Boycott of San Diego’s Centro Cultural de la Raza Ends”

by La Prensa Editor, Report on the end of the historic boycott on the Centro, 2007:

The seven-year-old boycott of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego’s historic Chicano/a community arts center, has ended after the adoption by popular vote of a comprehensive and dynamic boycott resolution agreement.

The Save Our Centro Coalition, initiators of the boycott, announced the end of the boycott on April 21 at the 37th annual Chicano Park Day celebration in Barrio Logan. The announcement came after 18 months of negotiations between representatives of the Centro’s Board of Trustees and the Save Our Centro Coalition.

As a result of the negotiations, which were mediated by a team from the National Conflict Resolution Center, a boycott resolution agreement was adopted which guaranteed the addition of SOCC members to the Centro Board, re-established the Centro’s Arts Advisory Committee, created a Community Advisory Council and enacted several new policies to address perceived conflict of interest issues and to stimulate transparency and community participation in the Centro.

http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/2007/may11-07/centro.htm