I am writing, as I did last year, to request your support of our Latino and Latina Roundtable twenty-first Annual Cesar Chavez breakfast which will take place on Friday, March 28 at the Sheraton Fairplex Events and Conference Center in Pomona from 8 am – 10 am. This year’s theme is “Building Bridges for Equity and Social Justice” and our emcee will be Scripps College Intercollegiate Chicana/o Latina/o Studies Professor Martha Gonzalez (lead singer, percussionist, and songwriter for the band Quetzal). We invite you to once again support us by purchasing individual tickets or being a sponsor of this momentous event that celebrates the resilience, creativity, and power of our communities. Many of our founding members were young organizers who learned from Cesar Chavez and as is the tradition of this day, our breakfast honors exemplary leaders who have used their lives in the interests of our communities.
This year, as part of celebrating twenty one years of the community-based work of the organization, we will be honoring: Mark Ramos, President of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1428 and President of the UFCW Western States Council; Paul Botello, community-based art muralist and educator; Jose Calderon, Pitzer College Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies and one of the founders and past President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable; Rose Calderon, long-time community organizer, artist, and past Treasurer of the Latino and Latina Roundtable; Pasadena Community Job Center and Second Responders providing relief and recovery efforts in recent fires; and LRT Community Star award recipient Maria Galvan (LRT Board Member); and local students who will be receiving Social Justice Scholarship awards.
This year is an important year as we continue to place our organization on a solid long-term foundation through the further development of an office, staff, board, and membership. More than ever, we need your support in these difficult times as we take on immense local and national challenges through our Immigrant rights “Know Your Rights, Rapid Response, and Sanctuary” Campaign; Pomona Jobs Project; annual cultural Dia de Muertos; annual Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage March; support efforts of day laborer and worker organizations/unions; and our education advocacy with the statewide College For All coalition (which promotes college access and opportunity for all).
In the spirit of community, I invite you to join us on March 28th, 2025, and purchase tickets or become a sponsor. Please see the attached document with the sponsorship levels. Our mailing address is: 1460 E. Holt Avenue, 144, Pomona, CA 91767. If there are any questions, or additional information to make a decision about sponsorship please do not hesitate to contact our director Lina Mira at: Lmira@latinolatinaroundtable.org.
Jose Zapata Calderon Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies 1050 North Mills Avenue Claremont, CA 91711-6101 (909) 952-1640 Jose_Calderon@pitzer.edu
