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

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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Panel Discussion on Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

George Ciccarriello Maher, Drexel University, author of We Created Chavez:  A Peoples 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 antiracist and antipatriarchal 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

Venezuela

Invitation – 2/24 Board Hearing on Executive Action on Immigration

I would like to invite you to attend the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. at the Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple Street.

 

Supervisor Kuehl and I will be introducing a motion in support of President Obama’s Executive Action on immigration, and the creation of a County Deferred Action Task Force.  Los Angeles County needs to be ready to assist with the implementation of the Executive Action. 

 

We encourage you to bring 20 or more members of your organization to show your support of the motion at the public hearing. We will be providing signs for supporters, but you are also welcome to bring your own. In order to keep our message united, we ask that you not sign up to speak, but instead show your support with your presence.

 

Please confirm your participation to the El Monte office at 626-350-4500 or FirstDistrict@bos.lacounty.gov. If you would like us to secure complimentary parking, please provide the name of the driver by 5:00 p.m. Monday, February 23rd.

 

Thank you and Sí Se Puede.

 

Hilda L. Solis

Supervisor, First District

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Driver’s License Forum on Oct. 29th in Pomona

Prepare for your Driver’s License
As of January 2, Californians will be eligible to apply for a driver’s license regardless of their immigration status. Make your appointment, find out which documents you need to submit and prepare for the examinations. A representative from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will come and present the most updated information.

Place: Pomona School District
The Village@ Indian Hill
Conference Center, Entrance #1
1460 E. Holt Ave, Pomona CA

Date: October 29, 2014
Time: 6:15 p.m.

A service of the following Community organization:
Parent’s Committee of the Pomona School District, Plaza Comunitaria, Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, Latino Roundtable, and the Pomona Unified School District

For more information, contact the Pomona Unified School District: (909) 397-4800 x 23942

Car-Keys

 



Prepárate para tu Licencia de Manejar
A partir del 2 de enero, se podrá solicitar una licencia de manejar en el estado de California independientemente de tu estatus migratorio. Haz tu cita, infórmate sobre los documentos que debes presentar y prepárate para los exámenes. Habrá un representante del Departamento de Motores y Vehículos (DMV) que nos dará la información más actualizada.

Distrito Escolar de Pomona
The Village@ Indian Hill
Centro de Conferencias, Entrada #1
1460 E. Holt Ave, Pomona CA

Fecha: 29 de octubre de 2014
Horas: 6:15 p.m.

Un servicio de las siguientes organizaciones comunitarias:
Comité de Padres del Distrito Escolar de Pomona, Plaza Comunitaria, Centro de Jornaleros de Pomona, Latino Roundtable y el Distrito Escolar de Pomona

Para más información comuníquese con el Distrito Escolar de Pomona (909) 397-4800 x 23942

Driver's License