Erick Galindo
Erick Galindo is former LAist staff member. He is a five-time Telly Award-winning writer, director and producer known for The Mexican Beverly Hills; A Laker Life; On Life As A Freckle-Faced, Redheaded, Mexican American From Southeast Los Angeles; and Mis Angeles. Erick regularly writes about culture for LAist, NPR station LAist 89.3 (formerly KPCC) and The New York Times, and was the first managing editor of L.A. Taco, where his work won a James Beard Foundation award. His narrative directorial debut The Bubble Machine premiered at the Golden State Film Festival and was a semifinalist for the jellyFest award. His co-written pilot Hot in Carson was a finalist for the Black List's inaugural Latinx TV List and his audio documentary Early was a finalist for KCRW's Radio Race. In 2020, his dark comedy script Legends was selected for the NHMC Latinx Screenwriters Showcase.
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"Sometimes I feel the weight of being judged as a person of color. Other times I feel awkward being seen as the only white guy in the room. It is through this murky fog that I have fought to carve out my own American identity." -
Mis Ángeles: For A Taquero Working In The Pacific Palisades, DACA Victory Means A Bigger Fight LoomsRudy Barrientos said even as he processed the win: "Right away, I was thinking there's probably gonna be more fight against us from the other side now,because you know that every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
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For some reason, I've been granted a platform to highlight the beauty and strength of L.A.'s most invisible communities. But that's not something I can do if I'm broken.
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About 300 people would wind up shutting down Brookshire Avenue and marching along Firestone Boulevard, two of the city's busiest streets, for the biggest display of civil disobedience Downey has seen in my lifetime.
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It's apparent to me that Derek Chauvin would not have faced justice had protests in Minneapolis and across the country forced Chauvin's arrest four whole days later. It's not right and you know it. God, I hope you know it.
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It's never easy writing an obituary, especially one about someone whose life was cut short by COVID-19, and "especially one about someone who could have easily been my cousin."
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I didn't want to write an obituary, especially one about someone who could have easily been my cousin.
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Gaspar Gomez was a father, an immigrant and one of the first known day laborers to die of COVID-19 in L.A. County.
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For essential workers protected by deportation by DACA, the feeling that they could soon lose the lives they've built is much like the existential fear most people have about getting COVID-19: Everything could end. A Supreme Court decision on DACA is expected next month.
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For DACA holders working essential jobs in the age of coronavirus, the existential dread is doubled by a looming Supreme Court decision.
