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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.

Announcement to Support Community Lawyer Francisco Suarez

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Francisco Suarez, who has always been supportive of community issues including the work around checkpoints, immigrant rights, and our community’s concerns, has moved his offices to  140 W. Foothill Blvd., Suite B-1 in Claremont.  He is sending out this information to let our community friends, who have sought his services in the past, know that he has moved.  As always, we support Francisco in his efforts – as he has always supported our community efforts.

From: Gil Pac

INTRODUCING:

FRANCISCO A. SUAREZ | COMMUNITY LAWYER

Attorney Francisco A. Suarez has been an advocate of the community for over 25 years.

He has ardently represented the civil rights of our community members.  Some of the 

community leadership roles he has assumed include:

  • Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship 1984 – 1986
  • Latino Round Table – Founding Member 2004
  • Pomona Economic Opportunity Center – Co-Founder and Past President 1997
  • Camara de Comercio Latino Del Valle De Pomona. / Latin Chamber of Commerce – Co-Founder, Board of Director and Past President 1991
  • Mexican American BAR Association / Political Action Committee Founding Member and Past Vice President 1988
  • Member of the legal team challenging Proposition 187

I have been privileged to have worked side-by-side with Attorney Suarez on many important community issues over the years.

Should you or someone you know need the legal services of an ethical attorney who cares about his clients and has a passion for the

law, I highly recommend attorney Francisco A. Suarez.

Practice Areas

  • DUI
  • Criminal
  • Personal Injury
  • Business / Fraud

 

Francisco A. Suarez | Attorney at Law | hablo español

Tel: (909) 469-5111

Office: 140 W. Foothill Blvd., Suite B-1 | Claremont CA 91711

E-Mail:  FAS@fasLAWgroup.com

LRT Meeting on Sat., November 14th

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You are invited to the membership meeting of the Latino and Latina Roundtable on Saturday, November 14th at 1 PM at the Pitzer College Broad Center (1050 N. Mills Ave.) Room 208 in Claremont.  At this meeting, the proposed nominees for the various board positions of the organization will be verified and voted on.  We need your attendance at this meeting to ensure your voice in who will represent you on the board.  The meeting will also include plans for a membership retreat for the new year, updates on this year’s Cesar Chavez breakfast, summary of partnership with dA center on this year’s Aztlan exhibit activities, future forum on elections, and immigrant rights, organizational, and community development efforts.  We look forward to your attendance and participation in this most important meeting.

Jose Zapata Calderon

Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies

1050 North Mills Avenue

Claremont, CA 91711-6101

(909) 952-1640

 Jose_Calderon@pitzer.edu

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Sunday’s Dia de Los Muertos event at dA Center in Pomona

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Latina(o) Roundtable is excited to be partnering with the dA art gallery during their Aztlan exhibit: Desde el corazon de la mujer. Latina(o) Roundtable is helping to sponsor several events throughout the exhibit and we encourage our members and their friends and family to come out and join us for these festivities.

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LRT Invitation to 2015 Aztlan exhibit events at dA Center for the Arts

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The dA Center for the Arts is proud to present the 2015 Aztlan with their community pARTner Latino/a Round Table 
Working together to build a better Pomona

Join us please for more art experiences at the dA Community Celebration de los Muertos y los Vivos
November 1st, 2015 from 3-7pm 

 With much enthusiasm and excitement, the Latino and Latina Roundtable and dA, invite all to join us in an afternoon of celebration of our loved ones and role models who have passed and celebration of our lives.  The Community Celebration de los Muertos y los Vivos will include an interactive alter, crafts for the whole family, music, story sharing and food. We hope to teach each other through sharing about celebrating life, death, and family.   Please bring a picture or recuerdo (an item that symbolizes) of a loved one to add to the alter.  (All pictures and items will be returned).
Lessons from an Activist Intellectual by Jose Zapata Calderon, co-founder of the Latino/a Round Table
Forum and Book Signing
Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 7 pm Free 

This book provides examples of how an academician can combine the roles of teacher, researcher, and activist with a community-based critical pedagogy for democracy and empowerment.  This book discusses the interconnections made between José Calderón’s pedagogy and his history as an immigrant, student, social movement leader, researcher, professor, and community organizer. At the same time, it provides examples of an interactive, intercultural, and interdisciplinary pedagogy that involves both students and community participants as both teachers and learners in social change projects. This style of pedagogy has a particular salience for historically excluded individuals from diverse racial, class, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds, for whom the educational experience can be both an alienating and empowering experience.

 

Teatro Urbano presents

Detective Sanchez: The Ortiz Case

Tickets $15 if you can. $12 for seniors, students, & Pomona Residents 

 

“Los Angeles in the 1950’s was a smog filled city, but there was an air of innocence…”
Those are the words that open the Chicano Detective story. “Detective Sanchez, The Ortiz Case” written by Rene Rodriguez and Produced by Rosemary Soto Rodriguez and Ricardo Lopez.

The play opens to the sound of the Blues with a narration that sets the mood and rhythm by Raul Lopez, a onetime middle weight contender, who owns and operates,  La Mecca, a bar in Boyle Heights.

Lopez quickly begins to tell the story of his friend and drinking buddy, Rudy Sanchez, or better known in the barrios of Los Angeles, Detective Sanchez. In the hot summer of 1950, Lopez defends a woman with a problem.  Her son, Chuy Ortiz has been accused of murder. Sanchez has to prove the innocence of this young man, but one problem Sanchez is a drunk…le gustaba la borachara, as Lopez points out.


Support Theatre in Pomona  !

 

November 21, 2015  5 pm  Free 

 

Gallery Talk with
Artist / Activist Paul Botello 


Paul has murals all over LA County including Pizter College and Ceasr Chavez Park in Pomona. He is a font of  knowledge for the subject of art and activism.
Please join us ! 


Closing Aztlan Reception 6 – 8 pm

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LRT events with dA Center for the Artes – Aztlan 2015

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UPCOMING LATINO/A ROUNDTABLE EVENTS

Latino/a Roundtable is partnering with the dA Center for the Arts during the Aztlan 2015 Mujeres de Aztlan/Desde el Corazon de la Mujer.  We encourage our members, family and friends to join us for these events. Each event is special in that it allows us to celebrate our culture, honor our history/traditions, showcase local talent and appreciate our leaders. The Latino/a Roundtable believe in the power of art and art as a vehicle to further the work on education, justice and activism. Feel free to contact Melissa Ayala at melissaayalalrt@gmail.com or Amy Tam at helloimamy@hotmail.com with any questions around these events. All events will be held at:

dD Center for the Arts

252 S Main St, Pomona, CA 91766

 

Aztlan 2015 Mujers de Aztlan/Desde el Corazon de la Mujer

October 10 – November 21, 2105

Art Exhibit

 

Poetry Reading  – open mic

October 24 – evening

Guest poet – Madeline Rios

 

Dia De Los Muertos Event  “Community Celebration De Los Muertos Y Los Vivos”

Sunday, November 1 -3-7 pm

This event is to celebrate our loved ones and role models who have passed and to celebrate the lives of those living.  There will an interactive alter, crafts for the whole family, music, storytelling, dancing and food. We hope to teach each other through sharing/ celebrating life, death, and family.  Please bring a picture or recuerdo (an item that symbolizes) of a loved one to add to the community alter.  (All pictures and items will be returned). 

 

Lessons from an Intellectual Activist

Saturday, November 7, 2015      7-9 pm

Jose Z. Calderon will be making a presentation about his newly published book.  Book will be available for purchase.

 

Detective Sanchez (the Ortiz Case, a Chicano Mystery)

Friday Nov 13 and Saturday Nov 14 at 8PM  

The play is a Chicano mystery of the Ortiz case and is presented by the renowned Teatro Urbano.  Cost $15 per ticket (if you can), $12 for seniors, students and Pomona residents

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Invitation to film showing: Chicano Park and David Diaz

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This is your invitation to the film showing “Chicano Park” with guest Speaker David Diaz, author of the book Barrio Urbanism this Friday October 16th at 6pm. at Bellas Artes Gallery (244 S. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91766).

 The Latin@ Roundtable and M.E.Ch.A de Mt. Sac are hosting this community gathering/potluck through Unity in the Community. 

 The focus is to create dialogue through films where we can learn from each other and educate each other on issues connected to the community.

The film depicts the history of Barrio Logan in San Diego, how the community organized for its survival, how the community took over the land situated beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, and turned it into a place for murals, familia unity, organizing, cultural sustainability, and what is now Chicano Park.

 Melissa Ayala
Latino/a Roundtable, MECHA de Mt. SAC, and Unity in the Community

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Big Victory: Support Irene Ramirez Returning to Pomona College!

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Irene Ramirez returned to work today to her position as a Cook at Pomona College!  We are planning a brief and informal welcome back for Irene this Wednesday, October 14th at 10:00AM outside of Frary Dining Hall at the fountain.  Irene will be able to take her 10-minute break around that time and come out for just a couple of minutes, so if you can join us, please be there promptly at 10:00 so as not to miss her!  Hope to see you there.  Again, please feel free to forward this to any allies who might want to join us on Wednesday.

We have exciting news!  The second of the 17 Pomona workers who were fired in December of 2011 will be returning to work at the College tomorrow!  You may remember when dining hall workers won their first union contract in 2013, they insisted on including language guaranteeing that their fired co-workers be reinstated as soon as they were able to present valid work authorization documents.  Christian Torres returned to work at Pomona in 2013 after obtaining work authorization through President Obama’s first executive order around DACA.  Now Irene Ramirez, a prep cook at Pomona for 14 years prior to her termination, will be returning to her job with her full seniority intact!  The Pomona worker committee is planning a small welcome-back gathering with Irene for later this week and would like to invite you all to join us.  I will forward you details as soon as the committee has chosen the date and time together with Irene.  In the meantime, if you frequent the Frary Dining Hall at Pomona please welcome Irene back to work!  Please feel free to forward this to any allies with whom you would like to share this wonderful news.

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From:

Robin Rodriguez
Organizing Director
UNITEHERE Local 11