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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.

LRT Bus and Registering your participation – 50th Anniversary of the ’65 Delano Grape Strike

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The UFW will be holding a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike on Saturday, September 26, 2015 at forty acres (the original organizing site of this strike) in Delano.  We are working on getting a bus that can take about 45 people.  We are now taking names of those individuals who would be interested in going on a bus.  We will leave early in the morning of the 26th and return on the same day.  If you are interested in going on the bus, you must make a firm commitment and send an e-mail to Melissa Ayala at melissaayalalrt@gmail.com or call her at 909-450-7532 by Thursday, September 3 to save a place on the bus.  The first 45 persons to respond will be included. 

Jose Zapata Calderon

Noche de Raza

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This event is to raise money for M.E.Ch.A.; M.E.Ch.A. stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan. We are an organization that educates the community about their history and their culture. 50% of the money we raise will go towards scholarships for two of the M.E.Ch.A. board members, and the other 50% will go towards our efforts to better educate our raza about their history and culture by mentoring high school students, buying books that will empower our members, and participating in educational field trips. You can be a part of this too!!! Just show up to the event and sign up at our M.E.Ch.A. booth.

Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1677631499189696/

You can buy tickets now, but don’t forget to print the receipt:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/noche-de-raza-tickets-18184832323

Noche de raza

Invitation to 50th Anniversary of the ’65 Delano Grape Strike

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The UFW will be holding a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike on Saturday, September 26, 2015 at forty acres (the original organizing site of this strike) in Delano.  If you are interested in going, please see the message below and register.  I will be working with Paul Knopf, Claudia Bedolla, and others to see if we can get a bus for that day.  I will keep you posted. 

  

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

Grape Strike Save the Date

El Super Settlement

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Big Big Victory for our communities:

“The agreement reached Friday aims to remedy complaints filed last fall and winter, marking a victory for the 600 employees represented by United Food and Commercial Workers locals at seven El Super stores in greater Los Angeles. As a result, one worker fired for what he contended was retaliation for supporting the union got his job back along with seven months of back-pay.”

 

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-el-super-settlement-20150810-story.htmlla-fi-el-super-settlement-20150810-001

Invitation to film showing and platica: “Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary”

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You are invited (by Unity in the Community: MECHA, Latino and Latina Roundtable, and Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee) to the second of many future film gatherings and platicas on issues pertinent to our communities. This film, Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary will be shown this Friday, August 14th at 6 PM at Bellas Artes Gallery (244 S Garey Ave. in Pomona. 

 

Background to film “Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary”:
Located in Pico Union, a neighborhood sometimes called the “Ellis Island” of Los Angeles, Hoover Street Elementary is the largest elementary school in the city. Some 2,700 students speaking 32 languages attend the school, and an estimated 90 percent of them are economic and political refugees from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador living below the poverty line. “Most kids don’t know if they are legal or undocumented,” says Simón, who was six when her family immigrated from Mexico, and remembers being called a “wetback” by her schoolmates. “They all just feel unwanted and scared.”
–pbs.org

You are free to invite anyone. This meeting will be a potluck so make sure you bring something delicious to share!

Here is a short clip:
https://vimeo.com/52100781

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Emergency El Super Delegation on Monday

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We are happy to announce, we are returning to the negotiating table with El Super on Tuesday August 18th.  This would not have happened without your support.

Join us for an emergency delegation to El Super, to remind El Super that the community is behind the workers and would like this to be resolved.  We feel this will set the right tone as we enter negotiations the following day.  We will only do this at the Union store in Covina.  The delegation will be no longer than 30 minutes.

I know this is short notice, if you have 30 minutes in your schedule we would appreciate your support.  It will make a difference.  Please let me know if you can join us by responding to this email.  Also send it out to your list serve.

Thanks Sylvia Carranza

UFCW 1428

El Pueblo Unido, Jamas Sera Vencido!

Monday, August 17, 2015

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

El Super

960 W. Arrow Hwy

Covina CA 91722

Latino/a Roundtable Membership Meeting

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The Latino and Latina Roundtable membership meeting invites you to its meeting this Saturday, August 15th from 1 – 3 PM at the Pitzer College Broad Center (1050 N. Mills Ave.) in Claremont.  The meeting will include a summary of the recent community forum focusing on recent legislation affecting both Latino/a and immigrant communities and the responses.  We will discuss some of the outcomes of the workshops held after the forum and how they fit into the LRT’s ongoing focus of organizational, community development, and immigrant rights work (that came out of this year’s LRT retreat).   Please extend this invitation to any friends, family members, or individuals who are interested in advancing committed leadership in our communities.

 

Jose Zapata Calderon

President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable

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

1050 North Mills Avenue

Claremont, CA 91711-6101

(909) 952-1640

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Backyard Concert at the Noltes–This Friday at 7:30pm

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Hi! If you’re free this Friday, August 7, please come over to my house for a relaxed backyard concert and comedy show from 7:30pm to 9:30pm or so.

We did this last year a couple of times and it was a lot of fun … so we’re doing it again. My wife, Aimee will be playing piano (actually a Fender Rhodes) and singing with our long-time friend Joshua Payne, who is an incredible guitarist. Together they call themselves Skirt & Suit (www.facebook.com/skirtandsuit<http://www.facebook.com/skirtandsuit>; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvqD1DOAJiI). They play cool, new arrangements of jazz and pop and rock and rap and original stuff, with beats and tracks and sometimes a kazoo, and all of that mixed up. You’ll dig it.

AND, our friend David Deeble (he’s been on Letterman, look him up), who also came last year, will be back–he’s hilarious. He can face-juggle.

Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Parking is on the street. Our address is:

1037 Arroyo Park Drive

Pomona, CA 91768.

You don’t have to be on time. Just come to the backyard through the white gate on the left whenever you get there. It’s free, but you can put a donation in the bucket if you want. You don’t have to RSVP, but if you have a second to email me back to say you’re coming, that would be great.

Feel free to forward this to, or to otherwise invite, whoever you think would like to come.

Hope to see you!

John Nolte

909-938-9991<tel:909-938-9991>

PS: You got on this list because I went through my contacts (mostly local Pomona friends and acquaintances (or people associated with Pomona), and old clients or other old friends that I haven’t seen in a while and thought it would be cool to see. If you’d like to get off this list, though, just reply with “Take me off the list” and I’ll take you off–no hard feelings at all.

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John Nolte

Pomona City Council Member, District 1

909-766-0016

Backyard Concert Announcement