Long Island, Potatoes, Suburbia

Long Island – a land of potato farms

I am Ecuadorean from the land of the potatoes.

It feels just natural that we belong here in a mystical link to this Island.

My brother’s house is here.

The beach house of Taita Stan,

Thanksgiving, Pesaj,  the school of the child.

Fire Island, Central Islip, Great Neck, Smithtown and Babylon

The trains full of people and

Less frequent that the number one

You welcome the potatoes and Suburbia Levittown .

I am Ecuadorean, I am the new one among the in the newest inhabitants

 Koreans, Italians , Eastern Europeans, Irish, Germans.

Brother Marcelo Lucero, your home was here you worked here

♪♫ Start spreading the news ♪♫ ,  

some of the highest leaders of

our community

also have blood on their hands

Trade his live for votes

We are from the Andes , the land is our mother

In Long Island we feel like happy potatoes in the Pachamama love

Pachamama is land, Long Island is our pachamama too.

“to beat up some Mexicans”

Look at him he is mexica,

Insult me I am latino

Beat me, I am Mexican.

Stab me I am illegal

Kill me , kill me I am nothing

This time, It was him, tomorrow

(Shema koleinu)  שמע קולנו                                                                  

Escuchame , Hear Our Voice.

Es ist in November, ein Bahnhof in  einer kalte Nacht

Es un dia de Noviember  ,  en la estacion del tren  una noche fria.

It is November, It is a train station, and it is a cold night

Now, What do I say to the children?

NOTES

Ecuador – Andes, where the potato got its start, market forces, years of drought, and changes in cultural priorities are eroding the status and the diversity of the potato.

Nearly 4,000 different varieties of potato can be found in the Andes, and scientists, economists, and historians are racing to record and preserve the genetic diversity to ensure it does not disappear as suddenly as did the Inca Empire.

Levittown - In 1946 the Levitt company acquired 4,000 acres of potato fields in Hempstead and began to build not just the largest single development by a single builder but what would be the country’s largest housing development ever.

The potato fields located 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island was named Levittown, and the Levitts began to build a huge suburb. The new development ultimately consisted of 17,400 homes and 82,000 people. The Levitts perfected the art of mass-producing houses by dividing the construction process into 27 different steps from start to finish. The company or its subsidiaries produced lumber, mixed and poured concrete, and even sold appliances. They built as much of the house that they could off-site in carpentry and other shops. The assembly-line production techniques could produce up to 30 of the four-bedroom Cape Cod houses (all the homes in the first Levittown were the same) each day.

Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes. Pachamama is usually translated as “Mother Earth” but a more literal translation would be “Mother Universe” .

In Inca mythology, Mama Pacha or Pachamama is a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting.

שמע קולנו 

Shema Koleinu is a prayer Part of the service for Yom Kippur.Yom Kippur  , is the most solemn and important of the Jewish holidays.  

“Hear our voice, Lord our God,  

pity and be compassionate to us, and accept -

 with compassion and favour – our prayer.”

In the early hours of November 10, coordinated destruction broke out in cities, towns and villages throughout the Third Reich. The consequences of this violence were disastrous for the Jews of the Third Reich. In a single night, Kristallnacht saw the destruction of more than 200 synagogues and the ransacking of thousands of Jewish businesses and homes. It marked the beginning of    the systematic eradication of a people who could trace their ancestry in Germany to Ancient Rome and served as a prelude to the Holocaust that was to follow.