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City will try to shed more light on how CWS works in wake of spate of refinery incidents; Alhambra students discuss plans for “Multicultural Day” on Feb. 24 and the conversations that led to it<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s busy week for Martinez elected officials, with School Board and City Council meetings (the school board met Monday evening; the City Council meets Wednesday). Here\u2019s what was and is on tap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Camille Ramirez, president of Alhambra\u2019s Black Student Union, offered heartfelt, inspiring comments to the board on the the work and challenges to create this year\u2019s event and the conversations that led to it since planning began in November (I wish I was this articulate at this age). Here is part of what she had to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s a hard topic, especially at high school. As you get older, you have perspectives, you have opinions, and you create these conversations … these conversations that you can have and speak with students, but also these conversations that can open up a safe space for students who might not feel comfortable. As a result, we have changed Multicultural Week into a into a day, a day of celebration, no title, just to celebrate everyone in the high school. There will be a lunchtime celebration where students can perform and take home \u2018United We Stand, Divided We Fall\u2019 buttons. One of the key lessons we learned is in everything you do, there are trials and tribulations. You guys know that as a board, and we know that as students. The planning process was important in understanding and incorporating different, diverse perspectives. This leadership team has grown through this experience and learned and adapted to different viewpoints and ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well said! We should all be open to learning, adapting and growing in the way Ramirez expressed as we address and grapple with the difficult issues facing our society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MARTINEZ NEWS AND VIEWS: AN INDEPENDENT, READER-SUPPORTED LOCAL NEWS SOURCE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF MARTINEZ, CALIFORNIA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Craig Lazzeretti Reprinted with permission from Martinez News and Views City will try to shed more light on how CWS works in wake of … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cityhall-featured.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Ntvs-48e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15893,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions\/15893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinezgazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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