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Join us For Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Pilgrimage March this Saturday, April 19 in Pomona

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You are invited to the Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta Pilgrimage on Saturday, April 19 beginning at 9:30 am at the Pomona Valley Pride center (386 S Thomas St.) and ending at Tony Cerda Park (450 W. Grand Ave.).  The march and celebration are organized by local community-based organizations of the Pomona Valley region with the support of the Latino and Latina Roundtable. In addition to an annual purpose of building unity and to use our lives in finding solutions to community problems, this year’s theme is “Defending Human Rights and Immigrant Rights in Our Communities.”  All proceeds and donations from the Pilgrimage march and fiesta are used as scholarships for students and recent graduates who carry on the vision of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta through advocacy and community engagement. To date, every one of the scholarship recipients has graduated from a 4-year university.
This year, the Pilgrimage march begins at Pomona Pride Center (386 S Thomas St) at a 200-year-old tree to honor the elders in our community; proceeds through Pomona neighborhoods; to Tony Cerda Park (450 W. Grand Ave.) where a “young tree” will be planted to honor the unity of elder and young generations in constructing a more equitable society.  The march and ceremony will be led by the indigenous group Danza Grupo Macelloyo, Los Jornaleros del Norte, Union de Ranchos, and the scholarship recipients. The speakers will include Madeline Rios, Angela Sanbrano, Matt Sedillo, Joshua Swodeck, Tony Cerda, Karen May, Poet Laureate Natalie Sierra, Claudia Batista Perales, Jesse Trujillo, Yasmin Cardona, and Jaime Guitierrez, along with Mayor Tim Sandoval, Frank Guzman, and Jose Calderon.  Music will be provided by the nationally known Los Jornaleros del Norte, as well as the Cantaurtores, and the dA Center Mariachis. Inter-generational folklorico dances will be presented by Jalisco No Te Rajes and other local groups. Food will be provided by local vendors.
Some of the Sponsors include:  Latino and Latina Roundtable; 50th Chicano Moratorium, Pomona Valley Pride Center; Pomona Economic Oppty. Center;  Pitzer Center for Community Engagement; Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe, LCLAA; Western University; Pitzer Latino Student Union; Pomona 5K/10K committee; National Day Labor Organizing Network; Gente Organizada; UFCW Local 1428; PUSH; SEIU Local 1000; Union de Ranchos; UNITE-HERE Local 11; Lopez Urban Farm; LULAC; Ontario Future Alliance; dA Center; Gutierrez Law Firm; U of LaVerne; UAW; Cal Poly Chavez Ctr.
The Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Pilgrimage and Celebration Committee

Asking for your support

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I am writing to request your support for our annual Latino and Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley 20th annual Cesar Chavez breakfast fundraiser (that will be held Friday, March 29, 2024 (from 8 am – 10 am with check-in beginning at 7 am) at the Sheraton Fairplex (601 W. McKinley Ave) in Pomona).  As you know, the Latino and Latina Roundtable continues to organize in our communities on immigrant rights, education, and well-being economy issues.   You have always supported us in the past – and I am hoping that you can be a sponsor this year.   This year, as part of celebrating over twenty years of the founding of the Latino and Latina Roundtable and as part of honoring exemplary leaders who have used their lives in the interests of our communities, we will be honoring:  Professor Harry Pachon (posthumously), the past President of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, Kenan Professor of Political Studies at Pitzer and the Claremont Graduate School and one of the catalysts for the founding of LRT; Deliana Speights, Secretary-Treasurer of UFCW 1428 and Regional Coordinator of the Women’s Network; Fernando Meza, Pomona Unified Assistant Superintendent in the administration of Pupil and Community Services; Dr. Mary Montes, Former School Board Member at Pomona Unified; St. Francis RN’s and Healthcare Workers from UNAC/UHCP and SEIU-UHW; the Avocado Heights Vaquer@s and Union de Ranchos; LRT Community Star award recipient (LRT board member and secretary) Alicia Rodriguez: and local students who will be receiving Social Justice Scholarship awards. 

  

Our organization has made great strides in being able to sustain itself through the development of an office, a resolute staff, a committed board, and an active membership. We have been successful in not only representing the interests of our Latinx community through education, immigrant rights, and new economy committees, but we have been on the front lines consistently in building multi-racial unity, in supporting labor, in bringing together people from different backgrounds, genders, sexualities, and racial histories in solving some of the well-being economic, political, and social problems which our communities are facing.  Now, to advance our efforts, we are calling on you to support this one annual fundraiser. As our Executive Director Lina Mira has written in the attached request letter:

 

In the spirit of community, I invite you to join us on March 29th, 2024, and purchase a ticket or better yet become a sponsor. I have included the various sponsorship levels. Please see the attached attachment. Our mailing address is:  Latino and Latina Roundtable- 1460 E. Holt Avenue, #144, Pomona, CA 91767 and we are a 501@3 organization. Our tax ID number is: 45-4458833. If you need additional information and documents to become a sponsor please contact Lmira@latinolatinaroundtable.org or call (909) 480-6267.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/latino-and-latina-roundtable-present-the-20th-annual-cesar-chavez-breakfast-tickets-795500632807?aff=oddtdtcreator

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
Website:  www.josezcalderon.com

 

 

 

 

 

Requesting your support

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I fully appreciate your past support and am writing once again this year to ask for your support of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley 19th annual Cesar Chavez breakfast fundraiser that will be held Friday, March 31, 2023, beginning at 8 AM.  This year’s breakfast will be in-person at the Fairplex in Pomona.  As part of our continued efforts to honor those who have exemplified the principles of using their lives on behalf of our communities, this year we are honoring the Pitzer College Workers and Student Alliance (who have won the right to be represented by UNITE-HERE), PUSD School Board Member and Founder of Laguna Tech College Arturo Jimenez, Lopez Urban Farm in Pomona, the National TPS Alliance, community star award recipient PUSD teacher and community organizer Ion Puschila, and local students who will be receiving Social Justice Scholarship awards.   

In the last two years, even, in the midst of the pandemic, our organization has moved forward in developing an office and a staff; in organizing cultural events such as Dia de Muertos and a Posada at the Urban Ranch; partnering with Pomona Unified on community school and college readiness initiatives, supporting ethnic studies, advancing local wealth-building economic development models, continuing immigrant and refugee rights actions, promoting clean and sustainable energy usage, supporting organized labor campaigns, carrying out voter registration and voter turn-out efforts, and taking the lead in moving local cities from at-large to district elections.  To continue to sustain these efforts, we now call on you to support our annual fundraiser.  

Please see the attached sponsorship levels that include e-tickets for the virtual event and recognition of your organization. You can also purchase individual ticket(s) at $75 per tickets. 

You can purchase tickets at this Eventbrite Link:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/19th-annual-cesar-chavez-breakfast-and-fundraiser-by-latinoa-roundtable-tickets-505487024297

You can purchase tickets online or by mailing your payment to – Latino and Latina Roundtable- 1460 E. Holt Avenue, #144, Pomona, CA 91767 (make checks payable to Latino/a Roundtable).  

The Program ad is due March 17, 2023. Email ad to lrtadmin@latinolatinaroundable.org

To access our newsletter, Social Justice Scholarship application, and the work of our various committees, visit our website at:  https://www.latinolatinaroundtable.org/

For any further information or questions, please contact Lina Mira, Executive Director at Lmira@latinolatinaroundtable.org or call (909) 480-6267. 

 Thank you so much for your continued support!

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
Jose_Calderon@pitzer.edu
Website:  www.josezcalderon.com

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Giving Tuesday 2021

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Hello LRT Members and Friends,
As we kick off the season of giving, we want to take a moment to thank you for your support. We know that so many of you love the Latino and Latina Roundtable and appreciate the work we do together. Please support our Giving Tuesday Fundraiser http://bit.ly/LRTGivingTuesday . Your gift, in any amount, helps build the capacity of the organization and support our programs and events. Please donate any amount that you are comfortable with and is heartfelt. If you cannot donate at this time, we understand, and ask that you please assist us by resharing on social media or send to a friend.
Con agradecimiento,
LRT Team and Board of Directors
These are the links to donate.
or send via Venmo or Paypal

Paypal: paypal.me/latinoroundtable

Venmo: LatinoandLatina-Roundtable

Asking for your Support

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As part of Giving Tuesday (a national day of donating to those organizations that “unleash the power of people to transform their communities”), we are requesting your support of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley as we prepare for our organizing efforts in 2021 — and to continue the advancement of our civic engagement and leadership development work in the areas of immigrant rights, community development, and education.  As you know, for years we have been primarily a volunteer organization that is sustained through the donations of supporters like you.  Your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. Every little bit helps. Please press on the link below which will direct you to the site where you can donate in Facebook.  Thank you for your support. 

Facebook pays all the processing fees for you, so 100% of your donation goes directly to the nonprofit. 

https://www.facebook.com/donate/449590713106752/10157884682261309/

Jose Zapata Calderon
President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable