Serge Dedina At La Esquina

Ok, I am off to La Esquina in just a few moments, hoping to get some interesting photos of Serge and his discussion. I’ll post the worthy ones!

Could You Pass Mexico’s Citizenship Test?

The article linked to below totally astounded me. Do that many Americans really know so very little about their country and history? If the poll results are accurate, this is a very sad situation. 38% of the 1000 US citizens asked to take the US citizenship test failed! Hmmm.

Could You Pass Mexico’s Citizenship Test?

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Serge Dedina Coming To Todos Santos in April

From Serge’s website (www.sergededina.com):

From April 2-7 I will be touring the Cape Region of Baja California to show the Blue Ocean Film Festival “Blue on Tour” ocean documentaries and give talks on my book Wild Sea.

APRIL 7th: La Esquina, Todos Santos @ 7:00pm

Serge Dedina is the author of  Wild Sea: Eco-Wars and Surf Stories from the Coast of the Californias and  Saving the Gray Whale (University of Arizona Press. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of WiLDCOAST/COSTASALVAjE, an international organization that conserves coastal and marine ecosystems and wildlife.

He is the former founding director of The Nature Conservancy’s Baja California and Sea of Cortez Program. Serge was instrumental in the development of two national parks along Baja’s Sea of Cortez coastline and a research and educational center in Magdalena Bay. He also initiated an international campaign that successfully stopped the Mitsubishi Corporationfrom destroying San Ignacio Lagoon—the world’s last undeveloped gray whale lagoon.

Serge is currently leading an effort to preserve Baja’s central Pacific coastline, a project that was featured in the October 2009 issue of Surfer Magazine and has resulted in the conservation of close to 20 miles (32 km) of pristine coastline.

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