Invitation to Press Conference With Father Alejandro Solalinde

Note:  You are invited to a press conference with Father Alejandro Solalinde at Pomona City Hall this Wednesday, Feb. 18th, at 10 A. M..  We know that this is short notice and we need your help in doing one-to-one contact and outreach to ensure a good turn-out for this press conference. 

 

 

THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT, LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AND INTERCOLLEGIATE DEPARTMENTOF CHICANO/A LATINO/A STUDIES AT THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES; LATINO AND LATINA ROUNDTABLE OF THE SAN GABRIEL AND POMONA VALLEY; AND COALICION LATINOAMERICANA POR AYOTZINAPA

 

Media Advisory                                              Media Contacts:

February 15, 2015                                         Jose Calderon, (909) 952-1640

                                                                        Miguel Tinker Salas, (909) 374-7847

                                                                        Angela Sanbrano, (323) 371- 7305

 

Father Alejandro Solalinde, a Mexican priest, who is a leading voice on international human rights, will speak on the steps of Pomona city hall on efforts to address social justice and human rights issues in Mexico.  Solalinde has chosen the Pomona City Hall site for a press conference because of its significance as the first city in the United State to pass a resolution requesting an international investigation into the disappearance of the 43 Mexican students of Ayotzinapa. 

 

 Since a December 1 Pomona city council meeting, adopting a resolution calling for an independent international investigation into the disappearance of the 43 college students, a number of government bodies on both sides of the Mexican border, including the California Senate and the San Francisco board of supervisors, have taken up similar resolutions. Last week, the U. N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances, in reference to the presumed killing of the 43, focused on the disappearances as being part of worsening human rights problems caused by the police, military, and government inaction. 

 

Father Solalinde, a Catholic priest who has devoted his life to the plight of Central American immigrants traveling through Mexico, is doing this press conference at the beginning of a three day tour with university, community, and religious organizations and leaders in the Los Angeles region.   In 2012, he received the National Human Rights Award from the Mexican government for his work as the founder and director of Hermanos y Hermanas en el Camino (Brothers and Sisters on the Road), a shelter for migrants in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

 

WHAT:          Press Conference to highlight the serious crisis that Mexico is facing in terms of the prevention, investigation and punishment for enforced disappearances and recognizing the significance of a Pomona City Council resolution calling for an independent investigation of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.

 

When:             Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

 

Where:            Pomona City Hall,  505 South Garey Ave. Pomona, CA 91766

 

Who:               Father Alejandro Solalinde, from Mexico

                        Cristina Carrizosa, Pomona City Council Member

                        John Nolti,  Pomona City Council Member

                        Jose Calderon, President of the Latino/a Roundtable

                        Comunity representatives and students

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