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also asked that Don Garcia of the clinic board be reinstated. Other demands included asking for the resignation of several clinic directors. Two leaders in the protest were Daniel Solis and
Cecilia Vega. The Amigos occupied the clinic more than once. The group attempted to reopen and run the clinic themselves. Eventually, some members of the board resigned, but not all demands were met and protesters continued to demonstrate into August 1977, though they were ordered not to block workers from entering the clinic building.
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to help staff the clinic. This partly led to a series of demonstrations in front of the clinic starting in April 1977. The demonstrators called themselves "Amigos de La Fe," and demanded that two nurses, Marta
Apodaca and Roberto Watson, and a doctor, Albert Chavira, who were let go be rehired. They
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There were rumors in 1975 that the clinic may not still be around by 1976. In 1976, Newark
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was hired as an executive director of La Fe Clinic. The clinic had sixty people on staff and a $ 3 million budget at this time. When
Balcorta started working as the head of La Fe, he began to think about expanding the clinic into other programs. Around 2002, La Fe began to get involved in community
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housing. By 2012, La Fe clinic had 450 people working there and a budget of $ 25 million. The center also operates a technology community center and provides educational opportunities.
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her entire life, helped establish what would later become the La Fe Clinic. The Ochoa
Parents Association was also instrumental in the creation of the clinic which was started in a
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facilities and a multipurpose room, took place on June 5, 1971. In 1972, the United
Methodist Church donated $ 18,000 to create a
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neighborhood. The nonprofit organization today also provides educational opportunities and other services as well as a clinic.
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673:"Fund-raiser Borrows Page From Oral Roberts' Book"
620:"Group Renews La Fe Takeover After Police Raid"
561:"Demonstrators Protest Firings at La Fe Clinic"
645:"La Fe Clinic Protestors Block Security Guard"
243:Starting a Clinic and Student Activism Arising
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141:"Wall of Homage Paid to Chief of the Barrio"
722:"Clinic Director Plans Unusual Fund Raiser"
532:"Tech Medical School Asked to Staff Clinic"
409:"La Fe Center Averages 100 Patients Daily"
278:"Father Rahm Clinic Moves to New Quarters"
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453:"La Fe Head Tells Concept of Care"
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