If you need a ride to the May First March this Sunday, May 1: Meet at Pitzer College East Mesa Parking Lot on the corner of Ninth Street and Claremont Boulevard by 11 A. M.
Otherwise, meet up for the May First March this Sunday, May 1 at 655 West Rialto Ave. in San Bernardino.
“Immigrants and Workers Marching Towards Citizenship and Empowerment”
Jose Zapata Calderon
INFORMATIONAL FORUM: HEALTH4ALL
May 4, 2016, 8:30 a.m. a 10:30 a.m.
800 S. Garey Avenue, Pomona, California
PUSD Boardroom
What you need to know about:
Health4All Kids for 0 – 19 year olds / Emergency MediCal
Covered California / My Health LA
What documents to bring and fill out to get enrolled
What programs accept us regardless of our immigration status
How can we get these programs to expand
PUSD Parent Involvement Program; Latino and Latina Roundtable; East Valley Community Health Center; California Partnership
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FORO INFORMATIVO: SALUD PARA TODOS
4 de mayo de 2016, 8:30 a.m. a 10:30 a.m.
800 S. Garey Avenue, Pomona, California
Sala de la Junta Directiva del Distrito Escolar de Pomona
Ven e infórmate sobre:
Health4All Kids de 0 – 19 años / MediCal de Emergencia
Covered California / My Health LA
Cuáles documentos debo traer y llenar para inscribirme
Cuáles programas nos aceptan independientemente de nuestro estado migratorio
Cómo lograr que se amplíen estos programas
Programa de Participacion de los Padres del Distrito Escolar de Pomona: Latino and Latina Roundtable; East Valley Community Health Center; California Partnership
Support May First March this Sunday, May 1 at 655 West Rialto Ave. in San Bernardino.
“Immigrants and Workers Marching Towards Citizenship and Empowerment”
In Rancho Cucamonga, day laborers, students, and community-based organizations will commemorate the life of Fernando Pedraza, a father – a grandfather – a day laborer leader who had won a court case allowing day laborers to gather on the corner — who died seven years ago when he stood alongside other day laborers – like any other day – waiting for a job. Little did they know that the Minute Men would use this day – Cinco de Mayo – as a day to protest the Rancho Cucamonga day laborers. On any other day, the workers would have been gone by noon – but because of the Minute Men presence – they stayed on. An auto collision in this intersection resulted in the death of our brother Fernando. He died at a time when he had been advocating to the Rancho Cucamonga city council for a day labor center. The Memorial and Celebration, that remembers Fernando and all day laborers and workers who have sacrificed so much in their lives, will take place on Thursday, May 5 at 10 A. M. at the Arrow and Grove corner where Fernando looked for work each day — and where day laborers still congregate to search for jobs.
Jose Zapata Calderon
From Fernando Flores to the Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee:
Video by Fernando Flores, member of the Latino and Latina Roundtable and Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee on Blanca Mariscal memorial at Cesar Chavez Park in Pomona
Blanca Mariscal memorial
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Xfr8BxAbFTdHN4WjdSblBVX3M/view?usp=sharing
Video by Fernando Flores, member of the Latino and Latina Roundtable and Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee on the Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage March and Festival from 300-year old tree at PUSD commemorating knowledge of elders to Garey High School (and planting of young tree with commemoration of young leaders)
Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Xfr8BxAbFTeklGemJGck9VNTQ/view?usp=sharing
Fernando
From Joseph Silva and Crystal Flores:
UNITE-HERE LOCAL 11 has this 8 week paid summer internship for students interested in worker organizing. Below is the link to our online application.
Muralist and artist PAUL BOTELLO will be part of a class, Rural and Social Movements, this next Wednesday, April 27th at 3:15 PM at Pitzer College Broad Hall 210 where he will make a slide show historical presentation pertinent to our Mexican-origin immigrant/working class communities and discuss the development of murals and art that he has been part of in East Los Angeles and the region. As part of the class, he will take students on a tour of the murals that he worked on (with students) at the Pitzer College campus.
Paul Botello was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned a BA and an MFA from Cal State University, Los Angeles. He teaches art in the LAUSD school system and has taught, in the past, at the Claremont Colleges. In 1994 he traveled to Berlin, Germany where he collaborated on a giant mural titled “Global Chessboard.” Other recently completed murals include “Citizens of the World” at Esperanza School, and “In Unison” at the Maravilla Housing Facility. He also completed a large-scale mural on the Metro Gold Line construction fence that was located at First Street and Soto. Portions of the mural can now be found at the Pueblo del Sol Community Center in East Los Angeles. He has painted a number of murals in the Inland Empire region where he has collaborated with Pitzer students including five murals on the Pitzer campus and two murals (of collaboration with Pitzer students and day laborers): a mural at the Pomona Day Labor Center and one at Vina Danks school in Ontario. Botello lives and works in East Los Angeles, and exhibits his work in Los Angeles and abroad.
Jose Zapata Calderon
Latino and Latina Roundtable board member Claudia Bedolla is urging needed support for the Ecuadorean people. She has sent a request from Veronica Pachano at Vejar School (who has sent the request below and the attached items that are needed – with contact information).
Dear friends,
On Saturday, April 17th a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the coastal region of Ecuador killing hundreds of people, destroying fishing ports, tourist beaches, thousands of homes, schools and churches. Latest reports confirmed more than 500 deaths, over 3,000 injuries and many people are still buried under the collapsed buildings. While I am very grateful that my friends and family are safe because they mostly live in the highlands, so many have been affected. The Ecuadorean Consulate of Los Angeles is sending shipments of non-perishable foods, clothes, bottle water, repellent, tents, sleeping bags, sheets and towels. If you want, you can give a hand by donating an item. I am planning to take donations to the consulate the first week of May.
Thank you in advance and please keep my people and Ecuador in your prayers.
Sincerely,
Veronica Pachano
We invite you to help to do clean-up and restoration at Cesar Chavez Park (2720 Barjud ave.) this Saturday. If you cannot show up at the kickoff at city hall — or even if you come late to Cesar Chavez Park — we ask you to help between 8-12 AM. Even if you are not able to register, we ask that you take some time and help out. On the day of the clean-up, we ask you to bring garden tools and gloves if you have them. Artist Paul Botello will be working on restoring murals and we need your help on this. We will be doing some painting. The Cesar Chavez Park Clean-up and Restoration Project, as Part of the 10th Annual Pomona Beautification Day in Pomona, will take place this Saturday, April 16, 2016. There will be a kickoff at City Hall at 7 a.m. and we will work at Cesar Chavez park from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. A celebration will take place afterwards at Thomas Plaza from 12 until 3 p.m. If you have not done so, please do an official sign up so that you can get a free lunch and free tickets for this year’s L. A. Fair at the Fairplex. To sign up if you have not done so, see the flyer below and visit http://www.pomonabeautification.com/. We look forward to working alongside of you on this day.
Jose Zapata Calderon