Here's Betita at a party at Brava Theatre with her friend Nancy. She loved a good time.
Betita was a friend, a neighbor, and a comrade in resistance to U.S. imperial adventures. She was a founding member of the collective which produced WarTimes/Tiempo de Guerras in response to the wars of 9/11. Here she compares notes with Calvin Cheung-Miaw. The newspaper (yes, there was paper back in the day) aimed to make a broadly left, anti-racist intervention in a developing national peace movement. It was thanks to Betita that WT/TdG was bilingual in Spanish and English from its first issue. She insisted; we all learned.
There were meetings -- endless meetings.
One of my favorite Betita pictures was always this, from a mural of neighborhood heroes painted by the children of BuenaVista/Horace Mann School.
For more about Betita's early life in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, see this site.
We shall not see her like again.
My condolences to you. We need more Betitas not fewer.
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