CALIFORNIA LATINO CONGRESO

STATEWIDE SUMMIT

EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION

                                         JUNE 10, 2017

                                             PROGRAM

8:00 a.m.         Registration

                        Campus Student Center F5-201 Multipurpose Room

9:00 a.m.         Prayer

                        Father Richard Estrada

                        Welcome

Kenia Alcocer, American Federation of Teachers, Union de Vecinos, ELAC

Angela Sanbrano, California Latino Congreso

9:30 a.m.         Keynote Speakers

                        Former Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa

City Councilmember, Gil Cedillo

Green Party, Kenneth Mejia

10:00 a.m.       Strategy Panel

                        Moderator: Nativo Lopez, Hermandad Mexicana “La Original”

Shiu-Ming Cheer, National Immigration Law Center (NILC)

John Sermeño, EXIDE, Community and Worker’s Committee

Genesys Sanchez, Student, ELAC

Sol Marquez, Centro Community Service Organization (CSO)

Al Rojas, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LACLAA)

Jose Calderon, Latino Latina Roundtable of the Pomona, San Gabriel Valleys

Odilia Romero, Frente Indigena Oaxaqueno Binacional (FIOB)

Father Alejandro Solalinde, Hermanos en El Camino, Ixtepec, Oaxaca

12:00 p.m.       Lunch (F5-201 Multipurpose Room

Baile Folklorico: Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional

1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Workshops

1. Know Your Rights: Grassroots Empowerment and Organizing (E3-257)

Moderator: Gilbert Saucedo, National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

Claudia Bedolla, Latino Latina Roundtable of the Pomona and San Gabriel Valleys

Ken Montenegro, National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

Angelica Dueñas, San Fernando Valley Greens

Jose J. Gonzalez, Media Health Technologies

1. Empowering Our Communities at the Local, State and National Level;

            Response to Executive Orders; Is State Sactuary an Option? ( E3-150)

Moderator: Nativo Lopez, Hermandad Mexicana “La Original”

Shiu-Ming Cheer, National Immigration Law Center (NILC)

Maria Alejandra Cabrales, DACA Student, Hamilton High School

Claudia Blauser, Non-Traditional Student Union, ELAC

Maria Galleta, United Deported Veterans;Deported Mothers in Action

III.       Challenges Border Walls and Bans that Divide Communities (E3-157)

            Moderator: Jesus Vargas, Proyecto Mexico Migrante

            Father Solalinde, Founder, Hermanos en El Camino, Ixtepec, Oaxaca

Hugo Castro, Border Angels

Ericka Perez Campos, Secretaria Movimientos Sociales, Movimiento Ciudadano

Luis Manuel Antuñez Oviedo, Abogado del Dr. Mireles, Founder of Self Defense                                                                                                                        Committees, Michoacan

Mattie Conway, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador(CISPES)

1. Fight Back Against Ice and Police Abuse (F5-213)

Moderator: Carlos Montes, Centro CSO

Sol Marquez, Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Estela Rodriguez, Centro CSO, Mother of Edwin Rodriguez

Juan Mendes and Josefina Rizo, Centro CSO, Parents of Jose “Peruzzi” Mendez

Edna Monroy, ICE Out of LA

V          Building Multi Racial-Multi Ethnic Coalitions (F5-209)

Moderator: Jose Calderon, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a Latino/a                  Studies, Pitzer College; President of the Latino Latina Roundtable of the Pomona San                      Gabriel Valleys

Ameena Qazi, National Lawyers Guield (NLG)

Nap Pempena, Anakbayan-LA

Jeanette Ellis-Royston, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People                                                                                                    (NAACP) Pomona Chapter

Odilia Romero, Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacional (FIOB)

Amy Chong, Student, ELAC

1. Voter Empowerment and Citizenship (E3-255)

Moderator:   Jaime Rodriquez, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

Howard Hernandez, GI Forum

Rose Rangel, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), Los Angeles

Gonzalo Santos Ph.D, Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology, CSUB;

Kern Coalition for Citizenship

Sergio Hernandez, Southwest Voter Registration Project (SVREP)

Mario Beltran, Eastside Cities Leadership Network

VII.      Building a Student Movement: A Chicano/Latino Perspective (F5-211)

Moderator: Genesys Sanchez, ELAC

Christopher Cruz, ELAC, Eastside Greens

Ginelie Mendieta, San Fernando Valley Greens

Daniel Ortiz, ELAC Student

Jenniffer Cervantes, ELAC, Student

Lorenzo Osterheini, Pasadena City College; SDS

Faby Jacome, Orange County Immigrant Youth United

2:45 p.m.         Break

3:00 p.m.         Teatro Urbano F5-201 Multipurpose Room

3:30 p.m.         Workshops Report Back. Present Resolutions. F5-201 Multipurpose Room

5:00 p.m.         Danza, Santa Maria Nenetzintla, Puebla, Mexico F5-201 Multipurpose Room

5:30 p.m.         Adjournment