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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico – 5 January 2025
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1. Punk recording video of donations of toys and clothes about to be distributed
2. Woman checking her phone before starting toy distribution
3. Mid of donations
4. Various of people placing donations in truck
5. Volunteers carrying pinatas full of candy
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Luis Escobar Hoyos, founder of Kings Punks:
“Dealing with children and the way you get attached and can be supportive to them that is priceless. As we tell people we don’t want diplomas, recognition or anything, we are punks and that’s why we do it. It (punk) is still being kept alive here with all the alternative lifestyle."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico – 6 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
7. Various of migrant children breaking pinatas in their camp
8. Punk and migrant woman breaking pinata, candy falling out
9. Various of toys being distributed by Kings Punks
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico – 5 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Marcos Grande, shoemaker:
"The satisfaction of the children, bringing them a gift, is a joy because many children do not have it, that is what is satisfying, taking it to where sometimes it does not reach, where they do not have the three kings but now here are friends, the group, the punks."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico – 6 January 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
11. Various of Grande giving away boots he made to donate to people
12. Woman crying after Kings Punks gave her son a tricycle
13. Various of Lucha libre wrestler Peter Punk wrestling as crowd watches
STORYLINE:
As a teenage punk 35 years ago, José Luis Escobar Hoyos wanted to teach his mother that his lifestyle wasn’t just about dressing in chains and spikes and listening to loud, accelerated music.
So he started a project called Kings Punks, where he collected and distributed toys for children living on the street on Three Kings day, also known as Epiphany, when children in Mexico typically receive gifts from the three wise men.
Over the years many volunteers have joined his effort.
Sporting black t-shirts from their favourite bands, black boots and glimmering piercings, the punks handed out scooters, dinosaurs and other gifts to children in the streets of Mexico’s capital early Monday.
“Dealing with children and the way you get attached and can be supportive to them that is priceless,” said Escobar, who is known locally as El Picos.
“As we tell people we don’t want diplomas, recognition or anything, we are punks and that’s why we do it.”
In more recent years, Escobar has expanded beyond just the places he knows Mexican families are living in the streets to also include some of Mexico City’s migrant encampments.
Lucha libre wrestler Peter Punk – black tights and green and white mask – joined as well, participating in brief wrestling bouts on the pavement at each stop.
Volunteers also string up a candy-filled piñata for children to bash.
One of the volunteers is shoemaker Marcos Grande. This year, he brought seven pairs of his boots to give away.
“The satisfaction of the children, bringing them a gift, a joy because many children do not have it, that is what is satisfying, taking it to where sometimes it does not reach, where they do not have the three kings but now here are friends, the group, the punks,” he said.
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