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Chicano Park Samba
... but the city of San Diego said
“chale! we’re going to make a highway patrol substation here man”
so on April 22nd 1970
la raza of Logan Heights and other Chicano communities of San Diego got together
and they organized
and they walked on the land
and they took it over with their picks and their shovels
and they began to build their park
and today that little piece of land under the Coronado bridge
is known to everybody as Chicano Park
Órale! ...