Invitation to Latino and Latina Roundtable
Subject: Urgent re: Valley Vista Services Pomona Waste Transfer Station
Attached you’ll find a flyer with date, time, and location of Wednesday’s action against the Waste Transfer Station.
Please distribute widely. It would be great to have students, and other community activists from intersecting issues show solidarity and stand with us.
FARMINGVILLE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: CARLOS G. PERRETT (cperrett@students.pitzer.edu, (979) 721-1977
ENCUENTROS to bring provocative, complex, and emotionally charged documentary
“FARMINGVILLE” to Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College
The screening will be hosted by ENCUENTROS April 24, 2015 in the Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College and is scheduled to commence at 1:00pm.
Following the screening, students and day laborers (jornaleros) from the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center (PEOC) will facilitate a discussion regarding the film and reactions to the film.
The screening if FREE and open to the public.
About the film: Farmingville (USA, 2003, 1:18 English/Spanish w/English subtitles) a film by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini – The chilling hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers in the small town of Farmingville, Long Island catapult the population, and the immigration issue, into the national headlines, unmasking a frontline of the new border wars – suburbia. This bilingual, verité documentary allows many players in the story – long term residents, day laborers, elected officials, advocates on all sides of the issue – to speak for themselves, offering a rare and intimate glimpse behind today’s headlines. For more information about the film visit www.farmingvillethemovie.com.
The New York Times
“a thought-provoking documentary about how the area’s influx of illegal Mexican day laborers
brought racial tensions to the surface, made placid neighbors into militants, and spurred
arson, attempted murder and other hate crimes.”
Jami Bernard Daily News
“Farmingville is a primer for anyone – whether lawmaker or citizen – who cares to better
understand the usually unseen cost of America’s appetite for cheap labor.”
About ENCUENTROS: Founded in 2007, ENCUENTROS are weekly events organized in partnership with Day Laborers from the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, the Rancho Day Laborer Corner, and Pitzer College students to address the alarmingly present-day inequalities, struggles, and barriers that day laborers face on a daily basis.
There were more than 200 that marched in the annual Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage march in Pomona but there were also hundreds more waiting and who joined the marchers in the quad area throughout the day at Garey High School. When the marchers walked into the quad area, the area was already filled with supporters. The largest turn-out ever for both the march and the fiesta afterward.
Daily Bulletin Monica Rodriguez: “This year’s walk theme was “Together We Move for Rights, Peace and Social Justice: Black Lives Matter, Remember Ayotzinapa.”
Organizers remembered African-Americans who have lost their lives around the country in violent acts involving law enforcement. A group of 43 students from the rural Ayotzinapa Normal School who disappeared in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero in September were also remembered.”
For picture with Maura Ayala and Councilwoman Cristina Carrizosa leading the march, See Link at:
http://www.dailybulletin.com/social-affairs/20150418/cesar-chavez-pilgrimage-in-pomona-draws-200
Free Transportation to Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage/ Saturday, April18
8:45 am: Bus will pick up at Pomona High School–drop off at the School District Building (800 S. Garey Ave.)
9:15 am: Bus will pick up at Ganesha High School–drop off at the School District Building
1:00 pm: Bus will pick up at Garey HS–drop off at School District Building
1:30 pm: Bus will pick up at Garey HS–drop off at Pomona HS
2:00 pm: Bus will pick up at Garey HS–drop off at Ganesha HS
Pablo “Chompo” Lopez was diagnosed with Stage 3 Metastatic Neoplasm Malignant Testicle Cancer in January 2014. He is 1 in 8 million. He needs your support in achieving his First Triathlon as a Stage 3 Cancer Survivor during treatment.
Pablo has always supported the Latino and Latina Roundtable and our efforts. Please “Read the Update” below and donate. I did and will again.
-Jose-
miHistoria: Stage 3 Cancer Survivor
Join us in celebrating the life of Blanca Mariscal to be held at Cesar Chavez Park (2720 Barjud Ave.) in Pomona, California on Friday, May 17th beginning at 4:15 PM. – the day before our annual Cesar Chavez pilgrimage march and fiesta.
Blanca was a leader in the annual Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage march and festival held at Garey High School. She helped lead the parents in the last four years in making the food for the event and ensuring that all the proceeds would go toward stud…ent scholarships. Last year, before the pilgrimage march, she was part of a delegation of parents and students which participated in a visit to La Paz (Keene, CA) where Cesar Chavez is buried. After the visit, she continued to work on the annual pilgrimage but got very sick with cancer and ended up in the hospital. Although in the hospital, she continued to organize the parents for a very successful pilgrimage but, shortly after, passed away. The Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee, along with the Latino and Latina Roundtable, PUSD parents and students, family, and other supporting groups will be commemorating the life of Blanca with a rock and plaque that was brought back from La Paz. The rock is from a creek that was used to build the base of Cesar Chavez’s gravesite. In addition, the school board has donated a tree that will be planted in her name.
The Latino and Latina Roundtable membership meeting that will take place this Saturday, April 11, from 1 – 3 PM at the Pitzer College Broad Center Room 208 (1050 N. Mills Ave. in Claremont). The meeting will include time for the committees to meet and summaries, updates, and discussions on the work of the various committees including: (but not limited to) a summary of the Cesar Chavez Breakfast, update on the Memorial at Cesar Chavez park remembering Blanca Mariscal set for April 17th and the Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage march and fiesta on April 18th, status of various clinics on DACA and DAPA, and the plans ahead.
Latino and Latina Roundtable Board
George Ciccarriello Maher, Drexel University, author of We Created Chavez: A People‘s History of the Venezuelan Revolution
Miguel Tinker Salas, Latin American Studies, History, and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pomona College, author of Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know and The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela
Todd Griffin, organizer with Black Lives Matter (Los Angeles) and participant in 2014 Black and Brown solidarity delegation to Venezuela
Jeanette Charles, popular educator and graduate student at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela with the Catedra Libre Africa
This week, the Venezuelan people presented over 5 million signatures to the US government protesting against President Obama’s executive order that declares Venezuela a “threat to national security.” According to the latest hinter laces Poll, 92% of all Venezuelans reject any form of US intervention and are organizing courageously to defend their sovereignty.
Over the last 15 years, Venezuelans have secured free education from preschool to undergraduate studies, free healthcare, and support for popular culture and media . Venezuela was declared free of illiteracy in 2005. The government has built more than 675,000 homes since 2010 and plans to build 400,000 more in 2015. In Venezuela , undocumented immigrants are guaranteed the same rights as citizens. Many Latin American countries are softening geopolitical borders.
Venezuela is also working to create a society free of discrimination with laws such as the Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence and the Law Against Racial Discrimination marking an anti–racist and anti–patriarchal shift in the country after 500 years of colonial repression and intervention.
FMI: chiapassuooortcommittee@gmail.com
Sponsors: Scripps Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies, Scripps Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Intercollegiate Feminist Center for Teaching, Research and Engagement
–Socorro Chavez
Below are some e-mails that have come in lauding the work of the LRT and the breakfast. It is important for all the people who worked behind the scenes (especially) to know that this work is having a big impact in creating substantial change in our communities. We should celebrate at our Membership meeting on Saturday, April 11th, between 1 and 3 PM, at Pitzer College Broad Center Room 212 (1050 N. Mills Ave. in Claremont).
–Jose–