SOY DE BURQUE - I AM FROM BURQUE 

On March 23rd, 2007 mayor Martin Chavez announced his plans to brand Albuquerque as "the Q". With the help of an advertising and marketing firm, his goal is to bring in out-of-state investors by making Burque hip and associating it with a hip name. As proud "Burqueï¿½os", we feel this is an unnecessary title.

Soy de Burque represents the battlefield between a politician's big business brain child and the people "they" (the Q) attempt to control and define. Burque in that sense is the struggle to maintain that which WE BURQUEï¿½OS hold sacred. In our world, los Burqueï¿½os, represents all the people tired of being forcefed bankrupt ideas and feeling. 

We are from Burque...not "the Q".