info on the Eastside Guide
ELA: The Eastside Guide is a website in the format of a travel guide to important historical and cultural sites in East Los Angeles. This 'minority' community is almost entirely overlooked in all official guide books and tourist maps of the city (most delete the whole area and focus instead on the upscale Westside). This reflects the overwhelming marginalization of Eastside citizens who are excluded both from political centers of power and representation in the media, even though Los Angeles is a world center for media production.

ELA: The Eastside Guide aims to disrupt this rainshadow effect through tours of important historical sites, such as the 1970 Chicano Moratorium protests where 3 people were killed, including an LA Times reporter, as well as tours of cultural sites, including art studios, Chicano music venues, community murals and community centers such as Self-Help Graphics. Each tour will consist of topographic street maps with addresses of sites posted with digital photos of each site. Linked on the webpage of each tour will be poems, prose, testimonies and pictures of participants: activists, witnesses, poets, artists, kids and others, reflecting on the significance of events at the site in the life of the community. The Eastside Guide aims to rearticulate community in the mainstream rainshadow.