Oscar Barragan was born and raised in Boyle Heights.

3 million branch construction bond Proposition DD in 1998 provided funds to rebuild and expand 32 branches.and cultural preservation in Little Tokyo.

the library has served as an essential hub for literacy.This experimental branch was an immediate.with a construction budget of $3.

including the construction of a permanent facility for the Little Tokyo Branch.Since opening in its permanent location on Sept.

which doubled the square footage to 5.

the Board of Library Commissioners resolved to open an experimental branch.former superintendent of Manzanar National Historic Site and member of National Parks Conservation AssociationFran Hunt and Virginia Figueroa of Inyo 350 (Eastern Sierra action network)Noah Williams of the Bishop Paiute TribeWendy Schneider.

we see the military being used … Our families were forcibly removed at the point of a bayonet to live in hastily constructed concentration camps.This is why it is so important to preserve sites like Manzanar and speak out against history repeating itself.

we cannot stand idly by while the Trump regime and its white nationalist allies break the law.we return to the ancestral land of the Paiute Shoshone people.