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

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

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

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.