This is your invitation to DACA Renewal Clinic on September 23 from 10 A. M. – 1 PM at The Village @ Indian Hill 1460 E. Holt Blvd. in Pomona, CA. 

There is a need for volunteers.  If you are interested in volunteering, the training for the volunteers to learn how to complete the forms will be on Thursday, September 21, 2017 at 6pm in the Parent Center on the Second floor of the PUSD Education Center, 800 S. Garey Avenue.  Parking will be in the rear of the building.  Please enter off of Gibbs, between 7^th and 9^th.

Volunteers are also needed for setup on Friday, September 22, at 5pm at the Village Conference Center, 1460 E Holt Ave.  We will go over logistics for the following day.

The Main Event is on Saturday, September 23.  Please meet at the Village Conference Center, 1460 E. Holt Ave, at 8 am to complete setup.  For More information, call 909-397-4215.  See the Attached flyers in English and Spanish.

The Sponsors:  Pomona Unified School District, Latino and Latina Roundtable, Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, City of Pomona, State Senator Connie Leyva, Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez, NAACP Pomona Valley Chapter, Supervisor Hilda Solis, CA Indivisible 35, and College Community Action Network

Inland Empire Committee in Support of Salinas Farm Worker Center

613 N. Northcape Ave., San Dimas, CA 91773

We are reaching out to you to ask for your support of the United Farm Workers in its efforts to build a “Salinas Farm Worker Center” in the Salinas Valley which was a dream of Cesar Chavez.  We are a group, named the Inland Empire Committee in Support of the Salinas Farmworker Center, who is comprised of individuals that have been members or supported the UFW over the years.

In the 1970’s the Salinas Valley saw the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history resulting in the jailing of Cesar Chavez for two weeks but ultimately winning higher wages for grape and lettuce farm workers. In 1997, 30,000 marched in that area for strawberry workers and there are today 65,000 farm worker families in the Salinas area.  The new Farm Worker Center would allow farm workers to meet, learn and receive vital services, such as immigration legal services and Know Your Rights information provided by the UFW Foundation. Now, farm workers themselves have contributed to buy a building in downtown Salinas.

As part of our contribution to support this effort, we are holding a FUNDRAISER TARDEADA on Sunday, October 15 (beginning at 2 PM) at the home of Jerry Ryan (410 Lemonwood Ave. in Redlands, CA). Our special guests will be Arturo Rodriguez, national president of the UFW and UFW co-founder and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta. The cost for the dinner is $35 for single and $50 for a couple. Please RSVP to Rose Calderon by October 1 at calderon.rose@gmail.com and send your checks (only cash or checks will be accepted), made out in the name of the United Farm Workers to ATT: Rose Calderon, 613 N. Northcape Ave., San Dimas, CA 91773. You can also send a donation to this same address even if you cannot attend. Attached is a Salinas Farm Worker Center Contribution Form if you wish to donate more. For a tree of justice, a leaf is $350 and a rock or fruit is $500. For those contributing to the Tree of Justice or the Black Eagle Honor Wall for this event, the cost of the dinner will be included. For information, call Jerry Ryan at 909-816-1187 or Jose Calderon at 909-952-1640.

Sincerely,

Committee Members in Support of Salinas Farmworker Center

The UNITED FARMWORKERS UNION & supporters will be conducting a protest THIS FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 11:00 AM at CONGRESSMAN PETE AGUILAR’s DISTRICT OFFICE, @ 685 E. CARNEGIE DRIVE, SAN BERNARDINO, CA., ( near HOSPITALITY LANE ) as a result of Congressman Aguilar’s support of an expansion of the horrific H2A law. The H2A law is VERY SIMILAR to the old, draconian ‘ BRACERO PROGRAM’ which was a near ‘slave labor’ system wherein scrupulous growers had a unending supply of low wage, docile work force that were FORCED to work for one particular grower, even when the grower would NOT honor the minimum provisions called for. CESAR CHAVEZ & DOLORES HUERTA successfully lobbied congress in the early sixties to eliminate the BRACERO PROGRAM but the proposed expansion of H2A ( which is currently allowable only under certain circumstances ) would open the flood gates once again, going from temporary to year round and also apply to dairies, which are currently not included. ALL INTERESTED IN FAIRNESS FOR FARMWORKERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND !

Flyer attached

Facebook Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/309386926138358/?ref=46

NO NEW BRACERO PROGRAM!

Protest Rally- Shame on Congressman Pete Aguilar!                                          

Friday, September 8^th

11 AM

685 E Carnegie Dr, San Bernardino

CALIFORNIA LATINO CONGRESO

STATEWIDE SUMMIT

EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION

                                         JUNE 10, 2017

                                             PROGRAM

8:00 a.m.         Registration

                        Campus Student Center F5-201 Multipurpose Room

9:00 a.m.         Prayer

                        Father Richard Estrada

                        Welcome

Kenia Alcocer, American Federation of Teachers, Union de Vecinos, ELAC

Angela Sanbrano, California Latino Congreso

9:30 a.m.         Keynote Speakers

                        Former Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa

City Councilmember, Gil Cedillo

Green Party, Kenneth Mejia

10:00 a.m.       Strategy Panel

                        Moderator: Nativo Lopez, Hermandad Mexicana “La Original”

Shiu-Ming Cheer, National Immigration Law Center (NILC)

John Sermeño, EXIDE, Community and Worker’s Committee

Genesys Sanchez, Student, ELAC

Sol Marquez, Centro Community Service Organization (CSO)

Al Rojas, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LACLAA)

Jose Calderon, Latino Latina Roundtable of the Pomona, San Gabriel Valleys

Odilia Romero, Frente Indigena Oaxaqueno Binacional (FIOB)

Father Alejandro Solalinde, Hermanos en El Camino, Ixtepec, Oaxaca

12:00 p.m.       Lunch (F5-201 Multipurpose Room

Baile Folklorico: Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional

1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Workshops

1. Know Your Rights: Grassroots Empowerment and Organizing (E3-257)

Moderator: Gilbert Saucedo, National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

Claudia Bedolla, Latino Latina Roundtable of the Pomona and San Gabriel Valleys

Ken Montenegro, National Lawyers Guild (NLG)

Angelica Dueñas, San Fernando Valley Greens

Jose J. Gonzalez, Media Health Technologies

1. Empowering Our Communities at the Local, State and National Level;

            Response to Executive Orders; Is State Sactuary an Option? ( E3-150)

Moderator: Nativo Lopez, Hermandad Mexicana “La Original”

Shiu-Ming Cheer, National Immigration Law Center (NILC)

Maria Alejandra Cabrales, DACA Student, Hamilton High School

Claudia Blauser, Non-Traditional Student Union, ELAC

Maria Galleta, United Deported Veterans;Deported Mothers in Action

III.       Challenges Border Walls and Bans that Divide Communities (E3-157)

            Moderator: Jesus Vargas, Proyecto Mexico Migrante

            Father Solalinde, Founder, Hermanos en El Camino, Ixtepec, Oaxaca

Hugo Castro, Border Angels

Ericka Perez Campos, Secretaria Movimientos Sociales, Movimiento Ciudadano

Luis Manuel Antuñez Oviedo, Abogado del Dr. Mireles, Founder of Self Defense                                                                                                                        Committees, Michoacan

Mattie Conway, Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador(CISPES)

1. Fight Back Against Ice and Police Abuse (F5-213)

Moderator: Carlos Montes, Centro CSO

Sol Marquez, Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Estela Rodriguez, Centro CSO, Mother of Edwin Rodriguez

Juan Mendes and Josefina Rizo, Centro CSO, Parents of Jose “Peruzzi” Mendez

Edna Monroy, ICE Out of LA

V          Building Multi Racial-Multi Ethnic Coalitions (F5-209)

Moderator: Jose Calderon, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a Latino/a                  Studies, Pitzer College; President of the Latino Latina Roundtable of the Pomona San                      Gabriel Valleys

Ameena Qazi, National Lawyers Guield (NLG)

Nap Pempena, Anakbayan-LA

Jeanette Ellis-Royston, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People                                                                                                    (NAACP) Pomona Chapter

Odilia Romero, Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacional (FIOB)

Amy Chong, Student, ELAC

1. Voter Empowerment and Citizenship (E3-255)

Moderator:   Jaime Rodriquez, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

Howard Hernandez, GI Forum

Rose Rangel, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), Los Angeles

Gonzalo Santos Ph.D, Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology, CSUB;

Kern Coalition for Citizenship

Sergio Hernandez, Southwest Voter Registration Project (SVREP)

Mario Beltran, Eastside Cities Leadership Network

VII.      Building a Student Movement: A Chicano/Latino Perspective (F5-211)

Moderator: Genesys Sanchez, ELAC

Christopher Cruz, ELAC, Eastside Greens

Ginelie Mendieta, San Fernando Valley Greens

Daniel Ortiz, ELAC Student

Jenniffer Cervantes, ELAC, Student

Lorenzo Osterheini, Pasadena City College; SDS

Faby Jacome, Orange County Immigrant Youth United

2:45 p.m.         Break

3:00 p.m.         Teatro Urbano F5-201 Multipurpose Room

3:30 p.m.         Workshops Report Back. Present Resolutions. F5-201 Multipurpose Room

5:00 p.m.         Danza, Santa Maria Nenetzintla, Puebla, Mexico F5-201 Multipurpose Room

5:30 p.m.         Adjournment