By PAUL MAVERICK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
Cal State Northridge students, faculty, alumni, and their supporters rally & march for the future of public higher education in California. Governor Jerry Brown has just proposed $500 million in savage cuts to the CSU system alone, and a staggering $1.4 billion in cuts to education overall. The students respond by turning out in force for this Day of Action. They gain support from Reverend James Lawson, a living legend of the civil rights movement, who has spent the year as a lecturer in residency at CSUN, teaching theory and tactics for nonviolent direct action.

By JULISSA REYES
EL NUEVO SOL

The CSUN 6, as the five students and professor are known, have received much support from fellow students, professors, and community organizations such as Todos Somos Arizona (We Are All Arizona). Supporters could be found sitting in the courtroom and rallying outside the courthouse at the group’s court date Friday Jan. 21. Among the supporters sitting in the courtroom was CSUN professor Rudy Acuña. “I’m here because of the injustice,” Acuña said outside the courtroom. “This is racist. Every person arrested is a person of color.”

By JACQUELINE GUZMÁN
EL NUEVO SOL
Students participating on press conferences, vigils and protests a day before the Dream Act could be introduced in the Senate. The dream act is a bill that would give citizenship to undocumented students who attended at least 3 years of high school, and gradutaed or obtained the equivalent.

Por JOSUÉ GUAJÁN
EL NUEVO SOL
Desde el punto de vista estudiantil y de cualquier persona que sabe de la situación que nuestras universidades publicas están pasando en California y en otros estados de la nación, es importante testificar y opinar acerca de las acciones que fueron llevadas el pasado 4 de marzo en la Universidad Estatal de California, Northrdige.

Por JACQUELINE GUZMÁN
EL NUEVO SOL

Miles de estudiantes y profesores se unieron en una sola voz en diferentes ciudades de California para protestar en contra de los recortes de presupuesto y el incremento de las colegiaturas. “Un día de Acción” fue el nombre que se le dio al movimiento de reivindicación del pasado 4 de Marzo donde estudiantes de diferentes niveles educativos, principalmente universidades públicas, marcharon y mostraron su angustia en contra de lo que ellos llaman “injusticia para la educación pública”.

By SIGOURNEY NUÑEZ
EL NUEVO SOL
In a Deaf household many barriers can be formed and pose as a roadblock for communication. Simple tasks as talking on the phone, to calling each others name’s, are not done the same in a Deaf household.

By LINDA COBURN
EL NUEVO SOL
Entrepreneur Patricia Gracia is opening a woman-owned business incubator in Santa Clarita as a way to help other Latinas follow in her footsteps.

By ALLISON HATA
Students of many different backgrounds at California State University Northridge (CSUN) can be found studying in the windowsills of Manzanita Hall, walking up the steps to the Oviatt Library or grabbing a cup of coffee from The Freudian Sip.

By LESLIE FLORES
The Japanese Garden in Van Nuys is not only a small oasis of peace and quiet in a busy city; it’s an ecological role model for how to integrate waste treatment and recreational facilities in an urban environment.

This multimedia series results from a partnership between LA Beez, an online collaboration of ethnic media organizations featuring hyperlocal news content covering the metropolitan Los Angeles area, and El Nuevo Sol, a bilingual (Spanish-English) multimedia website of the interdisciplinary program in Spanish-language journalism at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Students in courses taught by journalism professors Jéssica Retis and José Luis Benavides worked with LA Beez editors Ronald Ellerbe and Julian Do on hyperlocal stories about Van Nuys, one of the most diverse and vibrant neighborhoods in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, and about youth culture and the impact of the economic crisis on young people.