Tellling our stories on the Internet – Contando nuestras historias a través del Red
Say you’ve just come to Chicago.
You don’t know where to shop. You don’t know how to go here and there. Or even how and where to take the bus. And where to find people’s addresses. You wonder about the weather.
You wonder about the schools, the police, the weather, and the weather, and the food and the people, too.
So why isn’t there is a website or blog that helps you, if you are newly arrived here from Oaxaca or Buenos Aires or Monterrey or Merida or Guatemala City.
That just one of the suggestions that came up at a recent meeting of the Chicago Association of Hispanic Journalists. It was the beginning of an effort by the group to create a website that will link Chicago’s Latino press and community and which will make their spot on the Internet a door, a link, a way to connect.
So, will there be a space for poets and musicians, a digital room for people without papers and for people who help those without people, for people who are disabled and for those who see the need and try to help all of those who suffer disabilities in the Latino community and on and on?
Will it become a vast room of Latino blogs, opening up doors and vistas for people who can talk about their old and new lives? Will it become a website that takes us to places we should visit?
The possibilities are endless. This is how a community’s voice grows. Thanks to Tony Olivo and Teresa Puente and the all the others with the Chicago Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Stephen
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