Sigourney B. Nuñez
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Several cities across Northern California are implementing urban farms to increase food security and access to healthy food in low-income communities. According to community gardeners, urban farms create awareness about the importance of fresh and local food. They connect communities to how their food is produced. Urban farms also have potential to better reflect and serve the food justice cause through strength in diversity.

Sigourney Núñez
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Diversas ciudades en el norte de California están fomentando los cultivos urbanos para incrementar la seguridad en la comida y poder proveer comida saludable en comunidades de bajos recursos.

Por: MARLENE SALINAS, SIGOURNEY NUÑEZ, RICARDO HERNÁNDEZ, SONIA MARTÍNEZ
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Se estima que hay 12 millones de personas sin papeles en el país; sin embargo, una reforma migratoria justa y comprensiva aún todavía no se ha realizado. Para los indocumentados, la separación de las familias es algo muy común en la comunidad. Aunque las luchas son dolorosas, la gente indocumentada aún sigue en pie para ser escuchados.

By SIGOURNEY NUÑEZ
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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 SIGOURNEY NUÑEZ
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“Too Many Tamales” originally written by Gary Soto, has been adopted into a play for the last thirteen years at the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts Theater.

By SIGOURNEY NUÑEZ
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Bilingualism, when a person is fluent in two languages, can happen simultaneously. According to a Linguistics and Chicano/a Studies professor at California State University Northridge, Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, “Normally when parents speaks two languages, the child can acquire those two.”