Fiestas Patrias at PEOC THIS TUESDAY

INVITATION FROM THE POMONA DAY LABOR CENTER (PEOC) TO CELEBRATE THE INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN COMMUNITIES  — THIS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH AT 10 A. M. AT THE PEOC (1682 WEST MISSION BLVD. IN POMONA)

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Thank you so much! Will see you tomorrow!

 

“En el Centro Jornalero tenemos la costumbre de festejar la independencia de México, al igual que la de Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, y Honduras, con una rica comida y convivio y nuestras amistades de la comunidad y de las universidades.

También aprovechamos para aprender nuestra historia y vincular las luchas históricas con las actuales. Se le hace la cordial invitación a cada uno y una de ustedes!

#upcomingevents #markyourcalendars every year we celebrate#fiestaspatrias at the #PEOC #daylabor center, with food, music, and community. Since #Mexico#Guatemala#ElSalvador#Nicaragua,#CostaRica, and #Honduras all share the same #independenceday, it is a good opportunity to build bridges between the #Mexican and#CentralAmerican communities, as well as the #Chicanx and u.s.-born communities. And since #independence was (and is) a protracted#struggle, it gives us a chance to root ourselves in our history and connect to our current struggles. So please swing by beginning at 10:am on Tuesday #September15 and join us!”

 

Fernando Romero

Executive Director, Pomona Economic Opportunity Center

1682 W. Mission Blvd. Pomona, CA 91766

Tel: (909) 397 4215

www.pomonadaylabor.org

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Invitation to Rally Honoring Julian Bond

POMONA VALLEY BRANCH 1085B

AMERICA’S JOURNEY FOR JUSTICE RALLY TUESDAY – SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 4:00pm – 8:00pm

POMONA CIVIC CENTER PLAZA

7th St. at Garey Ave.

Community Speakers on:

ECONOMIC JUSTICE EDUCATION

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

VOTING RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS

HONORING AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEGEND

JULIAN BOND

Music!*Information Tables!*Free Food!

Candlelight Closing with Music & Inspiration

for information please contact:

jrellisroyston1@verizon.net

NAACP September #2 final NAACP September #2 final

LRT Bus and Registering your participation – 50th Anniversary of the ’65 Delano Grape Strike

The UFW will be holding a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike on Saturday, September 26, 2015 at forty acres (the original organizing site of this strike) in Delano.  We are working on getting a bus that can take about 45 people.  We are now taking names of those individuals who would be interested in going on a bus.  We will leave early in the morning of the 26th and return on the same day.  If you are interested in going on the bus, you must make a firm commitment and send an e-mail to Melissa Ayala at melissaayalalrt@gmail.com or call her at 909-450-7532 by Thursday, September 3 to save a place on the bus.  The first 45 persons to respond will be included. 

Jose Zapata Calderon

Noche de Raza

This event is to raise money for M.E.Ch.A.; M.E.Ch.A. stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan. We are an organization that educates the community about their history and their culture. 50% of the money we raise will go towards scholarships for two of the M.E.Ch.A. board members, and the other 50% will go towards our efforts to better educate our raza about their history and culture by mentoring high school students, buying books that will empower our members, and participating in educational field trips. You can be a part of this too!!! Just show up to the event and sign up at our M.E.Ch.A. booth.

Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1677631499189696/

You can buy tickets now, but don’t forget to print the receipt:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/noche-de-raza-tickets-18184832323

Noche de raza

Invitation to 50th Anniversary of the ’65 Delano Grape Strike

The UFW will be holding a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike on Saturday, September 26, 2015 at forty acres (the original organizing site of this strike) in Delano.  If you are interested in going, please see the message below and register.  I will be working with Paul Knopf, Claudia Bedolla, and others to see if we can get a bus for that day.  I will keep you posted. 

  

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

Grape Strike Save the Date

El Super Settlement

Big Big Victory for our communities:

“The agreement reached Friday aims to remedy complaints filed last fall and winter, marking a victory for the 600 employees represented by United Food and Commercial Workers locals at seven El Super stores in greater Los Angeles. As a result, one worker fired for what he contended was retaliation for supporting the union got his job back along with seven months of back-pay.”

 

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-el-super-settlement-20150810-story.htmlla-fi-el-super-settlement-20150810-001

Invitation to film showing and platica: “Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary”

You are invited (by Unity in the Community: MECHA, Latino and Latina Roundtable, and Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee) to the second of many future film gatherings and platicas on issues pertinent to our communities. This film, Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary will be shown this Friday, August 14th at 6 PM at Bellas Artes Gallery (244 S Garey Ave. in Pomona. 

 

Background to film “Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary”:
Located in Pico Union, a neighborhood sometimes called the “Ellis Island” of Los Angeles, Hoover Street Elementary is the largest elementary school in the city. Some 2,700 students speaking 32 languages attend the school, and an estimated 90 percent of them are economic and political refugees from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador living below the poverty line. “Most kids don’t know if they are legal or undocumented,” says Simón, who was six when her family immigrated from Mexico, and remembers being called a “wetback” by her schoolmates. “They all just feel unwanted and scared.”
pbs.org

You are free to invite anyone. This meeting will be a potluck so make sure you bring something delicious to share!

Here is a short clip:
https://vimeo.com/52100781

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