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Invitation: June 15 College for All Workshop on Top Education bills the College for All Coalition is supporting

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This is to let members of the Latino and Latina Roundtable know that the College for All will be holding a training on key educational bills (see below) this Saturday, June 15 from 10 A. M. – 2 PM at the the Solidarity Center at the Village (1460 E. Holt Ave. in Pomona — Entrance #3 – Room 6).  Although representatives from LRT have been chosen to go to Sacramento on June 19th and 20th, we are inviting LRT members who might be interested in the training.  If you are interested, please respond to this e-mail and let me know that you will be attending so that we are sure to have enough food for everyone at lunch time.  We will have the NAACP representatives and some representatives from Coachella who will join us.

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

2019 Legislative Priorities

– Top 8 Bills: Recommendations from Legislative Subcommittee

SB
493		 Gender
Equity in Education: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence		 Jackson SB
493 would ensure that institutions of higher education (IHEs) have adequate processes in place to prevent and appropriately respond to sexual harassment, violence, and assault.
AB
1012		 Bilingualism
for All Act		 Reyes AB
1012 makes critical investments in bilingual education, beginning in early childhood and continuing through high school graduation
AB
1617		 Pupil
instruction: high school graduation requirements: financial aid applications.		 Reyes would
require all 12th grade students to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Assistance or the California Dream Act Application to graduate from high school
AB
1623		 Teaching
credential: teacher recruitment: Golden State Teacher Grant Program		 R.
Rivas		 would
create the Golden State Teacher Incentive Grant program to encourage credential candidates to teach in a shortage area.
SB
3		 Office
of Higher Education Coordination, Accountability, and Performance.		 Allen
and Glazer		 would
establish the Office of Higher Education Coordination, Accountability, and Performance.
AB
130		 Postsecondary
education: Higher Education Performance and Accountability Commission		 Low
and Eggman		 The
bill would authorize the office commission to require the governing boards and institutions of public postsecondary education to submit data to the office commission on plans and programs, costs, selection and retention of students, enrollments, plant capacities,
and other matters pertinent to effective planning, policy development, and articulation and coordination.
AB
540		 Postsecondary
education: student financial aid: Cal Grant B Service Incentive Grant Program		 Limon creates
a “service-incentive grant” program that allows AB 540/undocumented students to complete a set number of community/campus services hours per quarter or semester in order to receive a financial aid grant.
AB
1645		 Student
support services: Dreamer Resource Liaisons		 Rubio
and Reyes		 requires
that each California college and university designate a Dreamer Resource Liaison on campus that is knowledgeable about the resources and programs available to support undocumented students.
SB
419		 Reducing
Suspensions for Minor Incidents		 Skinner This
bill with eliminate defiance/disruption suspensions for students in grades 4-8, and eliminate defiance/disruption suspensions for students in grades 9-12 until January 1, 2025.
AB
331		 Pupil instruction:
high school graduation requirements: ethnic studies.		 Medina,
Bloom, Bonta, Gonzalez, Ramos, and Weber		 This bill
would expressly include pupils enrolled in a charter school, as being subject to the high school graduation requirements. The bill would add the completion of a one-semester course in ethnic studies based on the model curriculum in ethnic studies developed
by the Instructional Quality Commission, to the high school graduation requirements commencing with the 2024–25 school year. The bill would authorize local educational agencies, including charter schools, to require a full-year course in ethnic studies at
their discretion, as specified.

Invitation to LRT membership meeting on June 8 at 1 PM at the Solidarity Center in Pomona

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You are invited to the next membership meeting of the Latino and Latina Roundtable meeting on Saturday, June 8 beginning at 1 PM at the Solidarity Center at the Village (1460 E. Holt Ave. in Pomona — Entrance #3 – Classroom 6).   The meeting will include: reports on educational visits to legislators as part of immigrant right advocacy day;  upcoming College for All “legislative education” training on  on June 15 and visits in Sacramento on June 20th;  community development (rent control, cannabis district, and sidewalk vendor status), future forums (New Economy, Curriculum, and Leadership Development), and immigrant rights issues.  The meeting will also include the status of the LRT office, proposals for future staffing development, and our role (including having an LRT contingent) in the upcoming Poor People’s March and Rally in Pomona on Saturday, June 20th.

 

Latino and Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley

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

Invitation to Honoring of Angela Sanbrano with 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award this Saturday

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To Latino and Latina Roundtable Members and Friends: Please join us at a public gathering in support of Angela Sanbrano as she is honored with the Pitzer College 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award at 5:15 PM at Benson Auditorium on the Pitzer Campus (1050 N. Mills Ave.) in Claremont


Angela Sanbrano ’75: 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award Honoree

Pitzer’s Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes a graduate who boldly puts the spirit of a Pitzer education into action and demonstrates a commitment to making meaningful changes in their community.

Angela Sanbrano ’75, 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award Honoree

Angela Sanbrano is an acclaimed activist and community organizer who has led some of the nation’s most prominent immigrant- and refugee-rights groups, including the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) and the Central American Resource Center-LA (CARECEN). Sanbrano now serves as co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

“Pitzer’s Alumni Board selected Angela for her unwavering support of the Latinx community throughout her career and for advancing immigrant rights while leading the next generation of social justice trailblazers,” Campos said.

Born in Juarez, Mexico, and raised in El Paso, TX, Sanbrano majored in psychology at Pitzer. She began community organizing in the ’70s, advocating bilingual education and housing rights in Los Angeles. In 1983, Sanbrano earned a law degree at the Peoples College of Law in LA, where she met Salvadoran refugees fleeing their country’s civil war. Two years later, she became executive director of CISPES, a national grassroots organization that supports social and economic justice in El Salvador and opposes US intervention in the Central American country. She served as an official witness of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, which ended the 12-year civil war in El Salvador in 1992.

Sanbrano took the helm of CARECEN, the largest Central American immigrant rights organization in the US, in the mid-1990s, leading the organization as its executive director until 2007. During that time, she helped organize the massive 2006 immigrant rights march in LA that drew more than one million people to the streets, according to organizers’ estimates.

In addition to her work with CISPES and CARECEN, Sanbrano was president of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities, now called Alianza Americas, when it won a 2010 MacArthur “Genius” Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. Last fall, Sanbrano witnessed the canonization of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero at the Vatican in Rome, where she spoke to Pope Francis about the plight of Salvadorans and children who are facing deportation from the US.

She is also the co-chair of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the Pomona and San Gabriel Valley and chair of CARECEN’s Board of Directors. Now president emerita of Alianza Americas, Sanbrano has also sat on the boards of many other organizations, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, National Council of La Raza, now called UNIDOSUS, and the National Immigration Forum.

Reflecting on her many accomplishments, Sanbrano calls her Pitzer education “a turning point in my life.”

“As a first-generation immigrant and the first member of my family to go to college, it was important to find a supportive educational environment,” Sanbrano said. “I found that and more at Pitzer. The educational environment, interdisciplinary academic program, community engagement approach and a culturally diverse student body broadened my understanding of my own identity and deepened my commitment to building a more just and humane world with racial and economic equity.”

https://capitalandmain.com/angela-sanbrano-a-good-organizer-is-a-pain-in-the-butt?fbclid=IwAR19hd63mGETEwTNj-G138KUcy7R98q_pL7dZREEUmYIN-KUbF4GIUofNWQ

 

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

Mayor Tim Sandoval Lauds Work of LRT, NAACP, and College for All in State of City Address

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Mayor Tim Sandoval, at his Pomona State of the City address, in describing numerous examples of the  bold and innovative leadership to shape the city – “commended such organizations as the NAACP and Latino/Latina Roundtable, whose members “continue to advocate for the state’s most vulnerable students to have access and support at our public universities in an effort called ‘College for All.’”  We thank Mayor Tim Sandoval and we commit to, as he said in his presentation, “working together to solve problems, and imagining and planning for the future.”  This is the link to the article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

 

 

https://www.dailybulletin.com/2019/03/04/reimagining-pomona-mayor-calls-on-community-to-shape-citys-future/

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

Your Invitation to Cesar Chavez Breakfast in Pomona on March 29th

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I am writing to request your support for our fifteenth annual Cesar Chavez Breakfast that will take place on Friday, March 29, 2019, from 8 A. M. to 10 A. M. (with registration between 7 and 8 AM) at the Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center (601 W McKinley Ave., Gate 3) in Pomona. With your support, in the last year, our Latino and Latina Roundtable has been able to fund an office and a full-time director.  However, as in the past, the work of our organization is primarily led by community volunteer organizers who ask for nothing in return but the forward progress of our leadership-building efforts through our immigrant rights, community development, and education committees.  In keeping with our grass-roots organizing character, we continue to keep the cost at a minimum to ensure that the tradition is in keeping with the celebration of the life of Cesar Chavez and the many leaders, from all backgrounds, who have historically given of their lives to ensure a future with justice and equity. In keeping with the tradition of honoring individuals in our region who exemplify these principles and values, this year the Roundtable is honoring:  Sylvia Carranza (Community Organizer at UFCW Local 1428); Eddie Gonzalez (Community Organizer at SEIU Local 2015 and former organizer with the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center); Tim Sandoval (Mayor of the City of Pomona); and James Sanbrano (a community-based Lawyer receiving the Community Star Award for his consistent efforts in defending the human and civil rights of our communities).   In addition, Social Justice Scholarships will be presented to students from the region who exemplify the values of connecting their studies to community engagement and social change.  You can RSVP by Mail or Online (by clicking either link on the announcement below). 

Jose Calderon

President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable
Join us in honoring leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to service and values highlighted by César E. Chávez. 

Honoring:

Eddie Gonzalez
Community Organizer at SEIU Local 2015

Sylvia Carranza
Community Organizer at UFCW Local 1428

Tim Sandoval
Mayor of Pomona

Community Star Award-
James Sanbrano
Attorney at Law

Social Justice Scholarship Recipients
March
29
The Program:
7:00 a.m.- Registration
8:00 a.m.- Seating
8:15 a.m.- Event ProgramLocation:
Sheraton Fairplex Conference Center,
601 W McKinley Ave.,
Pomona, CA 91768
*Use Gate 3 to Enter
RSVP by Mail
RSVP Online
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Website
Email
Questions?
Phone: (909) 480-6267     

Invitation to LRT Retreat This Saturday and Agenda

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ATTACHED IS THE AGENDA FOR THE LATINO AND LATINA ROUNDTABLE MEMBERSHIP RETREAT THIS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 AT THE SOLIDARITY CENTER (1460 E. HOLT AVE. ROOM 6 IN POMONA).  PLEASE INVITE OTHERS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR ORGANIZATION.

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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

IMPORTANT: Invitation to Latino and Latina Roundtable Membership Retreat this Saturday 9 AM at Solidarity Center

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THIS IS YOUR INVITATION TO THE ANNUAL LATINO AND LATINA ROUNDTABLE MEMBERSHIP RETREAT THIS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9 AT THE SOLIDARITY CENTER (1460 E. HOLT AVE. ROOM 6 IN POMONA).  THE MEMBERSHIP RETREAT WILL BEGIN WITH “CAFECITO’ AT 9 AM — A REVIEW OF THE AGENDA AT 9:15 AM, THE WELCOME AT 9: 20 AM.  THE MORNING AGENDA WILL INCLUDE A DISCUSSION ON THE MISSION AND VISION OF LRT, A REVIEW OF THE PROGRAM PRIORITIES (AS TO WHAT WORKED AND WHAT NEEDS TO BE STRENGTHENED), – WITH A LUNCH AT NOON FOR ALL THE MEMBERS — AND IN THE AFTERNOON:  A GENDERAL DISCUSSION OF 2019 PRIORITIES, DISCUSSION ON LRT ADMINISTRATION, THE CESAR CHAVEZ BREAKFAST AND HONOREES, AND A REVIEW OF THE 2019 CALENDAR.  PLEASE INVITE OTHERS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR ORGANIZATION.

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

Message to LLRT

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My birthday is just around the corner on January 8th and, in lieu of gifts or cards for my birthday,  I would like to ask friends and allies to give the gift of becoming a member (or to renew your membership) of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley.  This would be the highest gift of respect that you could give for all our work that we carry out daily in the interests of our communities. The application is attached with this request. The membership dues for one year are $25.00 for individuals and $10.00 for students, retirees, and low income individuals.  Your dues help to sustain our organizing and advocacy efforts.  As you know, our organization has always been a volunteer organization that is primarily sustained through membership dues and a yearly fundraiser.  Only until recently, have we rented an office and hired an executive director which brings forward new fundraising challenges. All the work of our community development, cultural, college for all, immigrant rights, annual breakfast, and scholarship committees are carried out by community-based organizers who have committed their lives to ensure justice and equity for our communities. We are continually motivated through our practice of an “abundance mentality” where we continue to see the outcomes of our efforts in training and developing new leaders through our organization.   In supporting our organization through your membership, you are helping to sustain the inspiration and efforts of our members  in organizing an annual Cesar Chavez breakfast and Pilgrimage march that provide scholarships and honor community-based leaders in our region; in sustaining the beauty of our culture through Dia de Los Muertos and “mural/sacred space” preservation in places like Cesar Chavez Park; in advancing our collaboration with area schools and colleges through the College4All Coalition in implementing a school-to-college pipeline; in implementing educational forums and workshops through a Roundtable Academy on key issues facing our communities; in carrying out voter, ballot, driver’s license, health for all, immigrant rights initiatives; in advancing our efforts to support workers and unions in our region; and in ensuring our ongoing participation in numerous coalitions on social justice and quality of life issues.  If you have questions or need me to send you the application by email, please contact me at Jose_Calderon@Pitzer.edu

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

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