Author Archives: Jose Calderon

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.

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

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Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

🔴LIVE NOW: The Summer of Resistance continues! ✊🏽 Los Angeles unions and immigrant justice groups are coming together in powerful, peaceful protest—through art, movement, and collective action—to protect our people and demand a future without deportations.🫂🧡
📢 Stand in solidarity! 🦋
🔴 EN VIVO: ¡El Verano de Resistencia continúa! ✊🏽Sindicatos y organizaciones por los derechos de los inmigrantes en Los Ángeles se están uniendo en una poderosa protesta pacífica—con arte, movimiento y acción colectiva—para proteger a nuestra gente y exigir un futuro sin deportaciones. 🫂
📢 ¡Únete y muestra tu solidaridad! 🦋⭐️

 

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In Memory Of Professor Manuel Castillejos

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On Monday, June 30, 2025, at 3:00 PM, Parking Lot 13 will be officially renamed in memory of Professor Manuel Castillejos — a cherished community leader and passionate arts advocate.
Join us as we unveil a memorial plaque in his honor and celebrate his lasting impact.
🗓️ June 30 at 3pm
📍VPD Lot 13 (2nd Street and S. Garey Avenue)
Questions? Please contact Pomona Public Works (909) 620-2261 ☎️

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Commemoration That Honors The Life and Legacy Of Vincent Chin

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Honored to be one of the speakers at an annual Commemoration that honors the life and legacy of Vincent Chin – a Chinese immigrant who was beaten to death in a hate crime by two auto workers influenced by massive scapegoating blaming Japanese, and AAPI in general, for the massive lay-offs occurring in the auto industry in 1982. The program, which included speakers, poets, and singers all referred to the legacy of the Vincent Chin case that resulted in a mass movement nationally and exposed the role of corporations in fueling that scapegoating. Similarities were made to the blaming of immigrants today (as a strategy by the Trump administration and the wealthy behind him) to divert the anger of working people and to fan division, war, and hate. The call was made to follow in the legacy of building a mass movement, resist authoritarianism and white supremacy, and build multi-racial coalitions that work together in turning around the historical systemic sources of racial and economic disparities that have been used – and are now being used – to pit us one against the other.

  

Celebrating with the Segovia Family

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Celebrating with the Segovia family – the graduation of their daughter, Alyssa Segovia, and her friend Grecia Acevedo (with the Acevedo Family) – earning M. S. Degrees from the University of Oregon. Oscar Segovia, who is on the Latino and Latina Roundtable board and Education Committee shared how their many achievements add to the growing number of Latina and Latino students who are now graduating from University graduate programs and paving the way for the kind of change makers that we need in the future.

 

Unveiling and Reception of Pomona Valley Pride Center Mural

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Latino and Latina Roundtable members celebrating with Frank Guzman – of the Unveiling and Reception of Pomona Valley Pride Center Mural – painted by artist Eric Michael Ruseo with the participation of numerous community volunteers. This last April, a Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Pilgrimage march, in support of Human Rights and Immigrant Rights, began at the Pride Center with speakers and songs by Los Jornaleros del Norte – and ended with a ceremony by the Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe alongside music, dance, food, and the planting of a tree.

Commemorating the Murder of Vincent Chin

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Join the Chinese American Museum for “Commemorating the Murder of Vincent Chin” on Monday, June 23, from 5 PM to 7 PM at the El Pueblo Historic Monument. This annual gathering honors the life and legacy of Vincent Chin, whose senseless murder in 1982 became a pivotal moment that galvanized the Asian American civil rights movement.
The evening will feature:

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