Celebrate Women´s Struggles! March 26, 2016

Viva el Poder de las Mujeres

March 26, 2016 

6 pm – 10 pm 

Centro Cultural de la Raza 

Balboa Park

Centro Cultural de la Raza

 

We invite you to celebrate Women´s month, especially these warrior women who fight against neoliberal bad governments and for social justice. 

Sponsored by FIOB, Taihn and Raices sin Fronteras 

Music, drinks, Oaxacan food (moles) and more! 

Tickets: $15

Facebook event 

Chicana/o Studies at the Social Justice Conference: March 24

A Conversation Panel

The meaning of Chicana/o Studies in the Tijuana/San Diego Border

Thursday, March 24,
11:10 am- 12:35 pm

Room MS 462

A Conversation Panel

The meaning of Chicana/o Studies in the Tijuana/San Diego Border

Rosiangela Escamilla 
“How About The Historically Looted? Memory and Justice in the Chicana/o Studies Classroom”

Alicia Lopez, M.A
"Chicana/o Studies at City College as a Restorative Decolonial Space”

Monica Hernandez 
“Implementing Decolonial Methodological Tools in the Chicana/o Studies Classroom”

Samantha Prado-Robledo
“Fronteriza Adjunct: Spreading the Pedagogical Word on Both Sides of the Border”

Social Justice Conference- Mar 23 to 25, 2016

Conference Social Justice and Education 2016 

San Diego City College

Conference Schedule

Conference event in Facebook

#Black Lives Matter- Mar 23, 2016

“Illegible”- collaborative project with poetry, music and dance

Wednesday, Mar 23, 7:00-8:00 p.m. 

Room AH 320 

Black Box Theatre 

“Illegible”- collaborative project with poetry, music and dance #Black Lives Matter with Grace Jun bkSOUL dancers for Social Justice Conference bkSOUL dance company, founded in 2001, is a community of artists who share culture, language and soul. Grounded in rhythm and beats, drawing from different movement traditions, bkSOUL redefines hip hop through body, sound and spoken word. As hip hop lovers, we create a new paradigm to experience hip hop culture. Seeking to embody social justice and activism, bkSOUL expresses and performs to fight racism, inequality, and other forms of oppression. 

More info:
http://bksoul.com/

Southern California Native Voices: March 21

Southern California Native Voices 

Learn about the Kumeyaay and Kúupangaxwichem Cultures 

Presenters: Stan Rodriguez and Paul Miranda

Monday March 21, 2016 

12:45 PM-2:10 PM 

San Diego City College 

Room Math and Social Sciences MS 462 

Stan Rodriguez (Lipay Nation of Santa Ysabel) Rodriguez is an advocate, advisor, and Educator of Kumeyaay culture and language. He is a Kumeyaay Language speaker, a bird signer, a navy veteran, and a graduate student at UCSD. He is a board member of Kumeyaay Community College and was the KPBS’s American Indian Heritage Month 2015 Honoree. 

Paul Miranda (Pala Band of Mission Indians) Miranda is Cupeño and Cahuilla. His mother is from the Saubel clan, and his father from the people who live by the little river. Paul graduate from UC Riverside in 2005 with a Bachelors of Art in Native American Studies. In his 30 years of life Miranda has learned his native language, his people’s history, hundreds of traditional bird songs, and many other aspects of his native culture. In his free time Miranda is an avid musician and ethnographer. 

Gathering with San Quintin Farmworkers: March 20

Gathering with San Quintin Farmworkers

March 20, 10 am- Border Field Park

Directions

More directions to the Park provided by Friendship Park.Org

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Reunión con los trabajadores agrícolas
de San Quintín

20 de marzo, 10 am
Playas de Tijuana y Parque Fronterizo de San Diego 

 

Open Class CHIC 141A

Open Class 

CHIC 141A 

U.S. History from a Chicana/o Perspective I

CRN # 13015

 U.S. History Chican@ Perspective I 

Instructor: Francisco Manzano 

Eight weeks course from March 21 to May 21, 2016 

Monday /Wednesday 8:00 am – 11:00 am 

Room MS 565

Kumeyaay Tour Kumiai: 19 Mar, 2016

Kumeyaay Tour 

Learn and support the Baja California Kumiai - Kumeyaay Nation 

March 19, Saturday 7 am to 9 pm 

San José de la Zorra 
We will be guests for the community´s traditional day of fiesta

20 minutes east of Ensenada 

Requirements: Respect and disposition to learn from the Kumiai community, an original people of Baja California for more than 2,000 years 

Registration: resistmaquila@riseup.net. $35 dollars, regular, $50 solidarity: includes transportation, a meal and a donation to the Kumiai. 

Tour Kumiai 

Viaje de conocimiento y solidaridad con la nación kumiai de Baja California

Sábado 19 de Marzo 7 am --9 pm 

San José de la Zorra
Día de celebración tradicional de la comunidad

20 minutos al este de Ensenada 

Requisito: Respeto a y disposición de aprender de la comunidad kumiai, pueblo original del norte de Baja California por más de 2,000 años. 

Registro: 

• ollin.calli.cm@gmail.com. $35 dólares, regular, $50 solidario: Incluye transportación, un alimento y donación a la comunidad kumiai. 
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Southern California Native Voices at City College: March 21

Southern California Native Voices 

Learn about the Kumeyaay and Kúupangaxwichem Cultures 

Presenters: Stan Rodriguez and Paul Miranda

Monday March 21, 2016 

12:45 PM-2:10 PM 

San Diego City College 

Room Math and Social Sciences MS 462 

Stan Rodriguez (Lipay Nation of Santa Ysabel) Rodriguez is an advocate, advisor, and Educator of Kumeyaay culture and language. He is a Kumeyaay Language speaker, a bird signer, a navy veteran, and a graduate student at UCSD. He is a board member of Kumeyaay Community College and was the KPBS’s American Indian Heritage Month 2015 Honoree. 

Paul Miranda (Pala Band of Mission Indians) Miranda is Cupeño and Cahuilla. His mother is from the Saubel clan, and his father from the people who live by the little river. Paul graduate from UC Riverside in 2005 with a Bachelors of Art in Native American Studies. In his 30 years of life Miranda has learned his native language, his people’s history, hundreds of traditional bird songs, and many other aspects of his native culture. In his free time Miranda is an avid musician and ethnographer. 

Latino Film Festival 2016: March 10-20

http://sdlatinofilmfestival.com/

See recommended movies below:

Alias María
Dir. José Luis Rugeles
(Colombia / Argentina / France, 92 min., 2015, Spanish w/ English subtitles, Drama / War)
3/12 / 8:15 / S3
3/14 / 6:05 / DGC
3/16 / 6:00 / S10
María, a 13-year-old guerrilla soldier, is burdened with the mission of bringing her commander’s newborn baby to safety in a neighboring town. However, Maria also has a secret to hide, her pregnancy, and must figure out what she’ll do with the baby she’s expecting. Through Maria’s eyes, the devastating effects of Colombia’s armed conflict are laid bare. Country of Focus Showcase: Colombia.


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Embracing Cuba- Mar 9, 2016

Byron Motley, Photographer: Embracing Cuba 

Wednesday March 9, 12:50 pm 

Room V 101 

Intrigued by tales of his parents' long-ago journey to the pre-revolutionary "Pearl of the Antilles," award-winning photographer Byron Motley traveled to Cuba more than a decade ago and instantly fell in love. Year after year he has returned with his camera to explore its vistas, its people, and its spirit. Click here for more information on "Embracing Cuba". World Cultures Program event 

More info:
http://www.byronmotley.com/

2,100 workers outsourced to Mexico

Do not abandon Workers

Carrier Air Conditioner, a subsidiary of United Technologies, announced earlier this month that it is laying off 1,400 workers in Indiana and outsourcing their jobs to Mexico. United Technologies Electronic Controls also announced that it will move 700 jobs from another Indiana operation to Mexico. This, despite $6.1 billion in profits last year.

American corporations have lost their sense of social responsibility and have no loyalty but to profit and shareholders. Carrier has been a trusted employer in Indianapolis since the early 1950s, and there aren’t enough other manufacturing jobs in the area to fall back on. Please, stand up and support the workers of Indiana by signing this petition.

Let United Technologies know that we are outraged at its decision, and we do not approve. Tell it not to relocate and take 2,100 jobs to Mexico.

https://theintercept.com/2016/02/12/watch-finding-out-your-job-is-moving-to-mexico/

When Medical Drugs and Illegal Drugs Collide - Mar 7, 2016

Sam Quinones “Dreamland:
The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” 

Monday, Mar 7, 11:15 am 

Saville Theatre 

The relentless marketing of pain pills. Crew from one small Mexican town selling heroin like pizza. The collision has led to America´s greatest drug scourge. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland because of medical pills and heroin. Sam Quinones is an American journalist. He is best known from his reporting in Mexico and on Mexicans in the United States. He was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to 2014. World Cultures Program event 

More info:
http://www.samquinones.com/books/dreamland/

Bocafloja: Mar 7, 2016

Bocafloja at City College

Monday March 7 at 1pm 

San Diego City College, Room MS 162 

https://www.youtube.com/user/quilomboarte

 Aldo Villegas (born 12 July 1978), better known by his stage name Bocafloja, is a rapper, poet, spoken word artist, and outspoken social communicator from Mexico City, Mexico. Bocafloja began his musical career in the mid-1990s with the groups Lifestyle (1996-1998) and Microphonk (1999). As a solo artist since 2000, he released his demo EP album Lengua Insurrecta in 2002. Bocafloja burst on the Mexican hip hop scene with the release of the his debut album, Pienso Luego Existo, in 2003. Followed by the successes of Jazzyturno in 2004, A Titulo Personal in 2005, El Manual de la Otredad in 2007, and Existo: Matriz Preludio al Pienso in 2009, Bocafloja has transgressed into one of the most revered icons in the hip hop scene in Mexico. Lyrically Bocafloja critically addresses topics such as institutionalized racism, social and political oppression, mental slavery, colonialism, and other human conditions. Bocafloja's most recent album Patologías del Invisible Incómodo, released in 2012, is a concept album which narrates the experience of the body of the oppressed as a vehicle of transgression to hegemonic structures. Bocafloja is projected to release by 2014, a music video for each of the albums 16 tracks. Wikipedia

Latino Film Festival in San Diego- - Mar 3, 2016

23rd San Diego Latino Film Festival Promo

Thursday March 3, 11:15 am

Room MS 162

The San Diego Latino Film Festival was established 22 years ago as a student film festival focusing on works by Latinos and/or about the Latino Experience. Since that time, The San Diego Latino Film Festival has developed into one of the larger and well-respected Latino film festivals in the country. Over 285,000 people have attended during the past few years and over 3,480 films/videos from across Latin America and the United States have been screened. World Cultures Program event More info on the Festival:

http://sdlatinofilm.com/

Maquiladoras and Ollin Calli: March 2, 2016

Maquiladoras and Ollin Calli 

March 2, 12:45- 2:10 pm 

Room MS 462 

Ollin Calli is a collective based in Tijuana, opposed to worker exploitation especially in the maquiladoras, and promote awareness of our human rights as workers. Ollin Calli is especially focused on respect for health and safety on the production lines in the maquiladoras. 

http://ollincalli.org/ 

Stop Border Patrol Brutality-- Documentary and Presentation March 1, 2016

Stop Border Patrol Brutality 

Presentation by Maria Puga

Widow of Anastasio Hernadez and activist for Justice in the Border 

And presentation of the documentary: 

Crossing the line at the border I: The Case of Anastasio
Video

Tuesday, March 1st, 12:45 - 2:10 pm 

San Diego City College, Room MS 462 

On May 2010 Anastasio Herndez Rojas was killed by a group of Border Patrol officers while he was in custody. Since then Maria Puga fights to get justice and prosecute the Border Patrol Officers who kill her husband. Maria calls for the unify of the relatives of people unlawfully murdered by the Border Patrol.