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Fernando Pedraza Memorial and Community Celebration
In Rancho Cucamonga, day laborers, students, and community-based organizations will commemorate the life of Fernando Pedraza, a father – a grandfather – a day laborer leader who had won a court case allowing day laborers to gather on the corner — who died seven years ago when he stood alongside other day laborers – like any other day – waiting for a job. Little did they know that the Minute Men would use this day – Cinco de Mayo – as a day to protest the Rancho Cucamonga day laborers. On any other day, the workers would have been gone by noon – but because of the Minute Men presence – they stayed on. An auto collision in this intersection resulted in the death of our brother Fernando. He died at a time when he had been advocating to the Rancho Cucamonga city council for a day labor center. The Memorial and Celebration, that remembers Fernando and all day laborers and workers who have sacrificed so much in their lives, will take place on Thursday, May 5 at 10 A. M. at the Arrow and Grove corner where Fernando looked for work each day — and where day laborers still congregate to search for jobs.
Jose Zapata Calderon
Blanca Mariscal & Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Videos by Fernando Flores
From Fernando Flores to the Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee:
Video by Fernando Flores, member of the Latino and Latina Roundtable and Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee on Blanca Mariscal memorial at Cesar Chavez Park in Pomona
Blanca Mariscal memorial
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Xfr8BxAbFTdHN4WjdSblBVX3M/view?usp=sharing
Video by Fernando Flores, member of the Latino and Latina Roundtable and Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee on the Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage March and Festival from 300-year old tree at PUSD commemorating knowledge of elders to Garey High School (and planting of young tree with commemoration of young leaders)
Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Xfr8BxAbFTeklGemJGck9VNTQ/view?usp=sharing
Fernando
8-week paind summer organizing internship for students
From Joseph Silva and Crystal Flores:
UNITE-HERE LOCAL 11 has this 8 week paid summer internship for students interested in worker organizing. Below is the link to our online application.
Muralist and Artist Paul Botello in class on Wednesday
Muralist and artist PAUL BOTELLO will be part of a class, Rural and Social Movements, this next Wednesday, April 27th at 3:15 PM at Pitzer College Broad Hall 210 where he will make a slide show historical presentation pertinent to our Mexican-origin immigrant/working class communities and discuss the development of murals and art that he has been part of in East Los Angeles and the region. As part of the class, he will take students on a tour of the murals that he worked on (with students) at the Pitzer College campus.
Paul Botello was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned a BA and an MFA from Cal State University, Los Angeles. He teaches art in the LAUSD school system and has taught, in the past, at the Claremont Colleges. In 1994 he traveled to Berlin, Germany where he collaborated on a giant mural titled “Global Chessboard.” Other recently completed murals include “Citizens of the World” at Esperanza School, and “In Unison” at the Maravilla Housing Facility. He also completed a large-scale mural on the Metro Gold Line construction fence that was located at First Street and Soto. Portions of the mural can now be found at the Pueblo del Sol Community Center in East Los Angeles. He has painted a number of murals in the Inland Empire region where he has collaborated with Pitzer students including five murals on the Pitzer campus and two murals (of collaboration with Pitzer students and day laborers): a mural at the Pomona Day Labor Center and one at Vina Danks school in Ontario. Botello lives and works in East Los Angeles, and exhibits his work in Los Angeles and abroad.
Jose Zapata Calderon
Request of support For Ecuadorean people
Latino and Latina Roundtable board member Claudia Bedolla is urging needed support for the Ecuadorean people. She has sent a request from Veronica Pachano at Vejar School (who has sent the request below and the attached items that are needed – with contact information).
Dear friends,
On Saturday, April 17th a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the coastal region of Ecuador killing hundreds of people, destroying fishing ports, tourist beaches, thousands of homes, schools and churches. Latest reports confirmed more than 500 deaths, over 3,000 injuries and many people are still buried under the collapsed buildings. While I am very grateful that my friends and family are safe because they mostly live in the highlands, so many have been affected. The Ecuadorean Consulate of Los Angeles is sending shipments of non-perishable foods, clothes, bottle water, repellent, tents, sleeping bags, sheets and towels. If you want, you can give a hand by donating an item. I am planning to take donations to the consulate the first week of May.
Thank you in advance and please keep my people and Ecuador in your prayers.
Sincerely,
Veronica Pachano
Asking for your help at Cesar Chavez Park on Saturday
We invite you to help to do clean-up and restoration at Cesar Chavez Park (2720 Barjud ave.) this Saturday. If you cannot show up at the kickoff at city hall — or even if you come late to Cesar Chavez Park — we ask you to help between 8-12 AM. Even if you are not able to register, we ask that you take some time and help out. On the day of the clean-up, we ask you to bring garden tools and gloves if you have them. Artist Paul Botello will be working on restoring murals and we need your help on this. We will be doing some painting. The Cesar Chavez Park Clean-up and Restoration Project, as Part of the 10th Annual Pomona Beautification Day in Pomona, will take place this Saturday, April 16, 2016. There will be a kickoff at City Hall at 7 a.m. and we will work at Cesar Chavez park from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. A celebration will take place afterwards at Thomas Plaza from 12 until 3 p.m. If you have not done so, please do an official sign up so that you can get a free lunch and free tickets for this year’s L. A. Fair at the Fairplex. To sign up if you have not done so, see the flyer below and visit http://www.pomonabeautification.com/. We look forward to working alongside of you on this day.
Jose Zapata Calderon
Invitation to CASA Ontario ribbon cutting Thursday April 14, 6-9
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Susan Phillips <susan_phillips@pitzer.edu> wrote:
Please join us for a ribbon cutting this Thursday for our new PIO location! It will be an event celebrating community in Ontario and Pitzer’s 20 years working in Inland communities. The program begins at 6:30 will include a Native American opening, speeches, and a Tongan hymn.
Join us!
Thursday April 14, 6-9pm
200 S. Euclid Avenue, Suite B, Ontario, CA 91762
To celebrate the grand opening of CASA Ontario, a new center for social collaboration in downtown.
Pitzer College is celebrating 20 years in Ontario and Inland communities! We have just moved to a new space in downtown’s historic Frankish Building and invite you to participate in our ribbon cutting and inaugural event.
Present will be community members, community partners, elected officials, non-profit leaders, and students, alumni, and faculty, along with representatives of foundations, media outlets, and local businesses.
The program will include food, speeches, music, and more! Children are welcome.
Cesar Chavez Park Clean-Up This Saturday as Part of Beautification day
We invite you to help to do clean-up and restoration at Cesar Chavez Park (2720 Barjud ave.) this Saturday with the Latino and Latina Roundtable. Please send an e-mail to Jose Calderon at Jose_Calderon@pitzer.edu if you can make it. On the day of the clean-up, we ask you to bring garden tools and gloves. We will be doing some painting. The Cesar Chavez Park Clean-up and Restoration Project, as Part of the 10th Annual Pomona Beautification Day in Pomona, will take place this Saturday, April 16, 2016. There will be a kickoff at City Hall at 7 a.m. and the city-wide cleanup projects will be from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. A celebration will take place afterwards at Thomas Plaza from 12 until 3 p.m. If you have not done so, please do an official sign up so that you can get a free lunch and free tickets for this year’s L. A. Fair at the Fairplex. To sign up if you have not done so, see the attached flyer and visit http://www.pomonabeautification.com/. We look forward to working alongside of you on this day.
