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About Jose Calderon

Jose Zapata Calderon is Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pitzer College and President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the Pomona Valley and San Gabriel Valley.

Latino/a Roundtable- Updates for this week- 2/16/22- 2/23/22

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Dear LRT Members and friends,

Happy Wednesday (middle of the week)!

1. Buy your tickets to the 18th Annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast! This is our main fundraiser that supports the Latino and Latina Roundtable’s organizing work in the community. We also celebrate and honor the people that make our communities better and award scholarships to local youth!
2. Join us every Wednesday evening for En Confianza at a new day and time. En CONFIANZA, season II,starts today. Join us every wednesday from February to June at 5:30 PM via FB Live. In this virtual space, created with Spanish speakers in mind, we discuss our community concerns, share upcoming projects and resources that LRT and other community organizations are working on! See you there. ¡Nos vemos pronto!
3. Ethnic Studies Updates & upcoming webinar- 
LRT Ethnic Studies Working Committee
Join the effort to implement ethnic studies in our local schools-
 
2/25/22 12:00pm – 1:00pm via ZOOM:linktr.ee/pomonaeducationcoalition
In Lak’ech 
Join us for an institute on In Lak’ech, Ashe, Isang Bagsak and why they are fundamentally good educational practices. Please read today’s Op-Ed in the LA Times on the erasure of InLak’Ech and Ashe in the state’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum. Read the Op-Ed atLA TIMES
February 26, 2022
9:30am-12:00pm
Insight & recommendations 
Pomona Education Coalition (PEC) (LRT is a member of this coalition), supports Professional Development in order to build the capacity of current teachers at PUSD. In order to have an effective Ethnic Studies program, experts in the field of Ethnic Studies need to be the ones teaching the Ethnic Studies courses.The PEC recommends that PUSD receive Ethnic Studies Teacher training from the following professional organizations:

Latino and Latina Roundtable 18th Annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast and Ethnic Studies Forum

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Dear LRT Members, 

Please join us for the 18th Annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast scheduled for March 25th 2022 at 9:00 am. We will be having a virtual celebration and honoring amazing community leaders and awarding scholarships to students working to uplift their communities. 

You can purchase tickets at this Eventbrite Link: 

https://18thannualcesarchavezbreakfastfundraiser.eventbrite.com 

The Breakfast is being held on Friday, March 25, 2022, beginning at 9 AM. Because of the continuing conditions with omicron, we have decided to hold a virtual event once again. 

This year’s honorees are –

Nora Garcia, Councilmember, City of Pomona 

Dr. Daniel Loera, Director of Multicultural Affairs at University of LaVerne

Dr. Krystana Walks-Harper, Pomona Unified Assistant Superintendent of Pupil and Community Services

Rosa Martha Zarate, Organizer, singer-songwriter, and co-author of Our Grandfathers Were Bracero 

Community Star Award recipients: Ignacio “Nacho” Montes and Rosemary Rodriguez

 

You can purchase tickets at this Eventbrite Link: 

https://18thannualcesarchavezbreakfastfundraiser.eventbrite.com 

Attached you will find the RSVP Form (make checks payable to Latino/a Roundtable).  

To access our newsletter, Social Justice Scholarship application, and the work of our various committees, visit our website at:  https://www.latinolatinaroundtable.org/ 

Please support Ethnic Studies – You are invited to join this webinar scheduled for 2/12/2022, below is the link to register : 

 BEYOND BLACK HISTORY MONTH:

This interactive educator and student panel is to engage in discourse about the power of Black Studies to transform education year long – beyond Black History Month.

PANELISTS INCLUDE:

* Erika Lynn Jones

* Estella Afi Owoimaha-Church

* Ndindi Kitonga

* Alphonso Thompson

MODERATED BY:

* Taunya Jaco

February 12, 2022

10am-12pm PST

REGISTER AT:

https://tinyurl.com/LESMCBHM

 

Sponsorships_Tickets- Cesar Chavez Breakfast RSVP 2022

 

SAVE THE DATE for LRT’s 18th Annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast! 🔔

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Hello LRT Friends and Supporters,

We want to invite you to the Latino and Latina Roundtable’s 18th Annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast Fundraiser on March 25th, 2022 at 9:00 AM. We will be honoring individuals from our communities, who are living out the core values of the late civil rights activist and labor leader – Cesar E. Chavez.

Due to the surge in COVID cases, our celebration will be virtual.

Our honorees this year are:

Nora Garcia, Pomona City Councilmember
Daniel Loera, Director of Multicultural Affairs at the University of La Verne
Dr. Krystana Walks-Harper, Assistant Superintendent of Pupil and Community Services, Pomona Unified School District
Rosa Martha Zarate, Singer/Activist, and co-author of Our grandfathers were braceros and we too…

Also being honored for their long history of work with the LRT and our communities are Community Star Award recipients:

Ignacio “Nacho” Montes and Rosemary Rodriguez

We hope you can join us, to buy tickets please go to the following link https://18thannualcesarchavezbreakfastfundraiser.eventbrite.com

If you need more information please call us at (909) 480-6267 or email us at info@latinolatinaroundtable.org

Invitation to Latino/a Roundtable Meeting this Saturday, February 5 from 1 – 3 pm

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This is your invitation to the next Latino and Latina Roundtable meeting this Saturday, February 5 from 1- 3 PM.  Attached are the minutes from the last meeting and the agenda for this meeting (in which we will review and discuss the achievements of our work in 2021 and priorities for 2022).  We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.  The zoom link for the meeting is:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81449580681

Jose Zapata Calderon
President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable 

 

Latino/a Roundtable – Upcoming Events & Announcements

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Hello LRT Members,

I would like to share 3 important announcements. Scroll down to the bottom please.
1. Virtual Caminata for Immigrant Rights this Saturday 1/30/2022, tune in starting at 9:00 am. 
Folks can join the live stream this Saturday through Radio Jornalera Facebook page: www.facebook.com/radiojornalera

👟Join our walk virtually this Saturday the 29th through facebook LIVE @radiojornalerahttps://www.facebook.com/RadioJornalera

👟Support us by giving a LIKE, SHARING

👟 pledge to walk a mile

👟Share on your socials with #caminataporrespeto and tag us!

Become a member and join us for the membership retreat on 2/5/2022 via zoom.

Or print the paper application (PDF is attached).
Ways to pay online or through an app: 
www.latinolatinaroundtable.org (donate now button on the far right).
Paypal: paypal.me/latinoroundtable

Venmo: LatinoandLatina-Roundtable

If sending a check, please make out to Latino and Latina Roundtable and mail it to this address:
Latino and Latina Roundtable 
1460 E. Holt Avenue #144
Pomona, CA 91767
 
Membership Retreat on February 5th from 1-3 pm via zoom
18th Annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast Update
The surge in covid cases has made us reconsider hosting an in person celebration. We will be having a virtual celebration and in the spirit of community honor the legacy of Cesar Chavez and celebrate with this year’s honorees and scholarship recipients.  We would like to announce this year’s honorees.

 

LRT UPCOMING EVENTS

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Dear LRT members and friends,

Here are some reminders for our upcoming events, feel free to spread the word!

Zoom Community Mixer: A Regenerative Pomona

February 2nd, 2022 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89794760752.

The LRT and our Clean Mobility Fellows would like to invite you to their last Clean Mobility event hosted by Jasmine Rocha and SOON, as they are nearing the end of their term with us. They have organized this event to preserve the work behind California Climate Investments for clean mobility in our community. 

Our goal is to connect our community members with organizations that seek ecological and social justice for Pomona as a whole.  Please respond to this email or contact Jasmine at jasmine.rocha@latinolatinaroundtable.org or Liberated SOON at soon@latinolatinaroundtable.org to RSVP.

18th Annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast
Please save the date for Friday, March 25th, 2022.
For more information please call: 909-480-6267
or send us an email at info@latinolatinaroundtable.org

LLRT Newsletter

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BOARD PRESIDENT’S LETTER

BY JOSE Z. CALDERON

It has been a difficult year with the conditions of the pandemic and friends and family being affected all around. But with the spirit, tenacity, and commitment of our board, membership, director, and staff, the LRT (Latino and Latina Roundtable) has waded through the crisis. One aspect that has stood out is the mastering and use of new technologies in our work.

The example of this practice particularly stood out in the professional character of the Cesar Chavez Breakfast with its large attendance, support of a diversity of sponsors, tightness of the agenda, the use of webinar and zoom skills in allowing for the fullest of participation, and the tapping of the leaderships skills and abilities of our board  and membership.

With a consolidated consciousness of moving alongside the community in building exemplary democratic spaces, this culture has similarly been successful in organizing a community-based commercial-free Día de Muertos, sustaining cultural projects in the parks, implementing college readiness forums, supporting ethnic studies, advancing thinking on new local wealth-building economic development models, actions that continue immigrant and refugees’ rights, promoting clean and sustainable energy usage, and taking the lead in moving local cities from at-large to district elections. We are more than ready for 2022! Adelante!

 

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Cesar Chavez Honoree – Deadline extended until Sunday January 9th 12 pm

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Hello LRT Members, 

Thank you for your submissions. Some of you have requested additional time to get your nominations in and therefore as a courtesy, the deadline has been extended until Sunday at noon. 

You still have time to nominate a community member who embodies and lives out the core values of Cesar Chavez- deadline has been extended until Sunday January 9th at noon-

 

Service to Others, Sacrifice, Preference to help the most in need and forgotten no matter how difficult the challenge,  Determination, Nonviolence, Acceptance of All People, Respect for Life and Environment, Celebrating Community, Knowledge, and Innovation 

 

Please include the name of the person(s) and your reasons why they are deserving of this honor. You can write your nomination in the body of an email or include it as an attachment.

The deadline is this Sunday, January 9th at noon. Send your nomination to Lmira@latinolatinaroundtable.org and write honoree 2022 in the subject line. You will receive an email with confirmation from me. The LRT board reviews your nominations and selects the honorees. Honorees will be announced in late January 2022.