And obviously we are a border tone, and that influences a lot of what we do both in the arts and just our community In general, you can see it's beautiful but somewhat beige type of city.

I think it's exactly the military presence that gives it its diversity.

So it's a unique, you know, juxtaposition because it's because of Camp Pendleton and that access that's where refugees, you know, enter through most of them.

Came had come as the first generations through the Vietnam, running away from the Vietnam War and finding refuge in us.

That was kind of the mission of this organization, you know, always trying to make stories visible from the stories of the refugees in exile.

I tried Thio kind of recuperate thes kind off or old stories.

The stories in the ship that I painted talks is excerpts from these interviews.

When it was white, back for the back of history, he had already passed a thing to have a park in Logan eyes, but so they never built a park when the Mexicans kind of keep them poor, poor people came in, and so when we found out that they were going to do a highway patrol station parking lot underneath the bridge, we camped out there for a couple of weeks till the Sidious and Diego finally proclaimed it to be Chicano part.

You know, I think there was a victory for the community to do it.

Mom, our first anniversary in 1970.

We had already firmly thought that we were gonna paint that.

If you're gonna have a park there, we don't We don't want to just see concrete.

The murals per se, uh, documents, some of that history.

What?

Um, I start statements is that art is a is a weapon for change.

We've used it, uh, to, you know, to bring consciousness to the community.