Devon Peña: Oct 24
Devon Peña
"Environmental Justice and the State of Exception"
October 24, Thursday 6:30 pm
University of San Diego
Salomon Hall
Devon Pena is the National Association of
Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) scholar of the year in 2013 and is a strong
voice for environmental justice, Chicana and Chicano culture, food sovereignty,
and cultural recovery for Indigenous/Latino peoples.
Malalai Joya: Oct 22
Malalai Joya
October 22nd at 11:10 am
City College
Room V101
She is an Afghani woman's rights and anti-war activist who
was instrumental in advocating for women and opposing war and occupation before
she was driven into exile. She is now taking her campaign international.
For more info see:
Tell President Obama to remove the immigrant imprisonment quota
Dear Enrique,
News flash: President
Obama’s 2015 budget requests a wasteful and dangerous policy that
indiscriminately jams immigrants into private prisons.
Immigrants who have committed no
crimes or only minor crimes are being stuffed into prisons to meet an arbitrary
immigrant body count quota passed by the House of Representatives in 2006. That
means ICE has a sick incentive to rip immigrant families apart, profile
Latinos in border communities, and give billions of dollars away to private
prison corporations like GEO Group -- all for no good reason.1
President Obama could push back
against this policy. Instead, his budget request legitimizes it. It’s
one thing for GOP extremists to request a policy like this -- it’s another
thing entirely when a President who claims to support our communities does.
Some people call it the “bed
mandate.” We call it the immigrant imprisonment quota. Whatever
you call it, it’s bad news -- so why does President Obama seem to support it?
The immigrant imprisonment quota
is exactly what it sounds like: ICE is required to hold at least 34,000
immigrants each day in private detention centers. This quota is the main reason
so many immigrants who haven’t committed any crimes are arrested and detained
by ICE.
Putting someone in a private
detention center costs $160 each day, or $2 billion each year -- a huge
giveaway to private prison companies like GEO Group. Meanwhile,
alternatives to incarceration cost as little as $17 per day, are effective, and
they keep immigrant families together as they wait for due process.
Stopping Obama’s budget request is
an important first step in eliminating this policy for good. And now that 65
members of the House of Representatives have sent the president a letter
opposing it, there isn’t a better time to pressure Obama to do his part.2
Thanks and ¡adelante!
Arturo, Jesús, Erick, Erica and the rest of the Presente.org Team
Arturo, Jesús, Erick, Erica and the rest of the Presente.org Team
P.S. Can you donate $5 to support our work? We
rely on contributions from people like you to see campaigns like this through.
Sources:
1. Controversial quota drives immigration detention boom." Washington Post, Oct. 13 2013.
2. Letter to President Obama - End Immigrant Detention Bed Mandate."Project Vote Smart, Sept. 26, 2013.
1. Controversial quota drives immigration detention boom." Washington Post, Oct. 13 2013.
2. Letter to President Obama - End Immigrant Detention Bed Mandate."Project Vote Smart, Sept. 26, 2013.
National Day of Action: Oct 5
Facebook event: Oct5
Join thousands across the
country to tell Congress:
Just and fair immigration
reform is necessary
Communities demand
immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship, protects workers' rights,
promotes family unity, and stops the militarization of border communities.
Take a stand and march with
your community...
MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW
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Unase con miles por todo el país para exijirle al Congreso:
Una reforma migratoria justa y equitativa es necesaria
Comunidades exigen una reforma migratoria que contenga un camino hacía
la ciudadanía, que proteja a los derechos laborales, promueve la unidad
familiar, y pone un alto a la militarización de las comunidades fronterizas.
Unase al esfuerzo y marche con su comunidad...
EN LOS PROXIMOS DIAS SE LE AGREGARAN MAS DETALLES
For more information // Para más detalles:
oct5sd@gmail.com
Queer in Aztlán: Oct 3
Queer in
Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out
By Gibrán Güido
Thursday, October 3 from
12:45 – 2:10 p.m.
Room MS-162
A former
City College student, Gibrán Güido is a doctoral candidate in
the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. In
2010, he organized the Fifth Annual Queer People of Color Conference at San
Diego State University and co-organized the National Association for Chicana and
Chicano Studies Third Jotería Conference. He is a recipient of the Richard P.
Geyser Ethics Memorial Scholarship.
His book, Queer
in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out, is
an anthology explores issues of queer youth identity, sexuality, masculinity,
homophobia, sexism, and violence in Mexican and American culture.
The volume
gives readers the opportunity to value deeply personal narratives from queer
Chicanos/Mexicanos and makes it possible for them to understand and sympathize
with the stories’ protagonists.
Güido
co-edited the publication with San Diego State Chicano Studies professor
Adelaida Del Castillo.
Reyna Grande: Oct 2
Reyna Grande
8th Annual San Diego City College International Book Fair
Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:10 am
Room V-101
Author of The Distance Between Us and Across a Hundred
Mountains.
She was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle
Award.
Update Struggle Ethnic Studies in AZ: Oct 2
Update on Struggle for Ethnic Studies in Arizona
Oct 2: 7 pm
Centro Cultural de la Raza
Directions
The House I Live In- Oct 1
Tuesday, Oct 1, 12:45 – 2:10 p.m.
Room V-101
San Diego City College
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