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Note:  You are invited to a press conference with Father Alejandro Solalinde at Pomona City Hall this Wednesday, Feb. 18th, at 10 A. M..  We know that this is short notice and we need your help in doing one-to-one contact and outreach to ensure a good turn-out for this press conference. 

THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT, LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AND INTERCOLLEGIATE DEPARTMENTOF CHICANO/A LATINO/A STUDIES AT THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES; LATINO AND LATINA ROUNDTABLE OF THE SAN GABRIEL AND POMONA VALLEY; AND COALICION LATINOAMERICANA POR AYOTZINAPA

Media Advisory                                              Media Contacts:

February 15, 2015                                         Jose Calderon, (909) 952-1640

                                                                        Miguel Tinker Salas, (909) 374-7847

                                                                        Angela Sanbrano, (323) 371- 7305

Father Alejandro Solalinde, a Mexican priest, who is a leading voice on international human rights, will speak on the steps of Pomona city hall on efforts to address social justice and human rights issues in Mexico.  Solalinde has chosen the Pomona City Hall site for a press conference because of its significance as the first city in the United State to pass a resolution requesting an international investigation into the disappearance of the 43 Mexican students of Ayotzinapa. 

 Since a December 1 Pomona city council meeting, adopting a resolution calling for an independent international investigation into the disappearance of the 43 college students, a number of government bodies on both sides of the Mexican border, including the California Senate and the San Francisco board of supervisors, have taken up similar resolutions. Last week, the U. N. Committee on Enforced Disappearances, in reference to the presumed killing of the 43, focused on the disappearances as being part of worsening human rights problems caused by the police, military, and government inaction. 

Father Solalinde, a Catholic priest who has devoted his life to the plight of Central American immigrants traveling through Mexico, is doing this press conference at the beginning of a three day tour with university, community, and religious organizations and leaders in the Los Angeles region.   In 2012, he received the National Human Rights Award from the Mexican government for his work as the founder and director of Hermanos y Hermanas en el Camino (Brothers and Sisters on the Road), a shelter for migrants in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

WHAT:          Press Conference to highlight the serious crisis that Mexico is facing in terms of the prevention, investigation and punishment for enforced disappearances and recognizing the significance of a Pomona City Council resolution calling for an independent investigation of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.

When:             Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Where:            Pomona City Hall,  505 South Garey Ave. Pomona, CA 91766

Who:               Father Alejandro Solalinde, from Mexico

                        Cristina Carrizosa, Pomona City Council Member

                        John Nolti,  Pomona City Council Member

                        Jose Calderon, President of the Latino/a Roundtable

                        Comunity representatives and students

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We would like to invite representatives from your community organization to a community summit and reception that our Local union is hosting this coming Thursday, February 12 from 6pm to 8pm in Downtown LA, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (555 W. Temple St., Los Angeles 90012).

At this community summit we will brief community allies about our largest contract campaign that affects over 145,000 homecare workers living throughout L.A. County, the vast majority of which are women, women of color, and many thousands also immigrants.

The attached letter has more information about our “We Care LA” Contract campaign and this community summit but feel free to contact me at any time if you have any questions.

The event is free and you can bring guests we just need to RSVP who is coming. If you can RSVP with myself Just call, email, or text me any time to RSVP.

If you cannot attend feel free to invite other representatives from your organization or please help me by forwarding this email to the best correct contact person for your organization.

Also feel free to invite other leaders, activists, and organizers, from other community groups you know just have them RSVP with me also. Anybody can do that by simply texting me at 213-359-3283.

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Sincerely,

Juan Carlos Garcia

SEIU ULTCW Invitation to Community Partner

Invitation from Professor Miguel Tinker-Salas:

Father Alejandro Solalinde will be at the Claremont Colleges on Wed February 18 speaking at 7:00 pm in Lyman Auditorium, Thatcher Music Building to address the crisis  in Mexico.

A flyer is attached.

He is an advocate for immigrants in Mexico, he operates a shelter in Oaxaca and is one of the leading voices demanding social justice in Mexico.

Along with Archbishop Vera and multiple social forces he has joined to movement to “re-found” Mexico.

Saludos

Miguel

Solalinde