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.

NY Times:“billionaire Trump” is out of touch with the economic conditions of everyday workers”

While Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is sent out as this crooked administration’s “peace envoy” and negotiating billions of dollars in financial deals in the Middle East for his private equity firm, Affinity Partners and with profits being made by Billionaires who are profiting from an unending and unjustified war – the NY Times reports that the “billionaire Trump” is out of touch with the economic conditions of everyday workers:

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Celebrating Pitzer Commencement

Celebrating Pitzer Commencement with students Luna Romero and Isabel Pan (who took my class in their first year and participated in the next four years in organizing with farmworkers, day laborers, immigrant rights marches, and park restoration projects); with renowned political activist and Professor Angela Davis (whom I had met back in the early civil rights movement); Continue reading

Share Video From Greeley of Magdaleno

Teresa McNeill, long-time organizer from Greeley, sent this short video to share of Magdaleno helping to lead one of his favorite movimiento songs – last August at the 50th anniversary reunion of key supporters and friends from the Colorado UFW boycott and strike days – held at the Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Denver, Co. A memorial gathering is now being planned in Denver on July 25. Continue reading