Sherman Heights Community Center
2258 Island Ave
San Diego, CA 92102
San Diego, CA 92102
Grand Opening SUBIR Cultural Center and DREAMER Resource Center- Nov 29, 2018
Please join us for the Grand Opening of City College’s ¡SUBIR! Cultural Center and DREAMER Resource Center.
All faculty, staff, students and administrators are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
Date: Thursday Nov. 29 from 12pm-1pm
Location: AH-200A
Profe Isidro Ortiz The Chicano Blowouts of 1968- Nov 26
50 years ago, a group of students in East L.A. led a series of walkouts that resulted in change to the education system that many thought was impossible. Professor Isidro Ortiz of SDSU's Chicana/o Studies Dept discusses the rise and legacy of the Chicano Blowouts for educational justice and against unequal conditions and racism in Los Angeles high schools.
Register at: https://sandiego.librarymarket.com/chicano-blowouts
Marcha en San Diego en solidaridad con la caravana de refugiados: 25 de Noviembre, 2018
English version
Marcha en San Diego en solidaridad con la caravana de refugiados
Domingo 25 de noviembre
9 am - 12 pm
Larsen Field
4100 Camino de la Plz, San Ysidro, California 92173
Evento en Facebook
Organizado por la Coalición en Solidaridad con Migrantes y Refugiados
Marcha con las organizaciones de derechos de los migrantes y justicia social de San Diego, como parte de un día internacional de acción, para mostrar solidaridad con la caravana de refugiados.
Trump está creando una situación de guerra en la frontera, y aumentando el odio y el temor contra nuestros hermanxs que vienen en éxodo contra la pobreza y la violencia en Centroamérica. Es fundamental que mostremos nuestro sentimiento masivo de apoyo a lxs migrantes y refugiados, y exijamos el reconocimiento de su derecho legal a buscar asilo.
¡¡Donaciones bienvenidas!!
Más de 4,000 refugiados, muchos niñxs se encuentran en Tijuana en el Deportivo Benito Juarez a la intemperie, en invierno y sin protección. Pueden enviarlo a UCSD y City College en los horarios abajo marcados.
Necesitamos:
100 casas de acampar
200 colchonetas
300 sleeping bags
300 cobijas gruesas
San Diego March in Solidarity with the Refugee Caravan: Nov 25, 2018
Versión en español
San Diego March in Solidarity with the Refugee Caravan
Sunday Nov 25
9 am – 12 pm
Larsen Field
4100 Camino de la Plz, San Ysidro, California 92173
Facebook event
Hosted by Migrant and Refugee Solidarity Coalition
Join San Diego Migrant Rights and Social Justice organizations, as part of an international day of action, to show solidarity for the refugee caravan.
Trump is creating a war like situation at the border, and ramping up hate and fear against our brothers, sisters and siblings in exodus from poverty and violence in Central America. It is critical that we demonstrate the mass sentiment in support for migrants and refugees, and demand the recognition of their legal right to seek asylum.
Donations are accepted
More than 4,000 refugees, children many of them are in Tijuana in Deportivo Benito Juarez outdoors, in winter and without protection. We need:
100 tents
200 sleeping mats
300 sleeping bags
300 thick blankets
Conferencia Binacional en Asuntos Fronterizos 15 y 16 Nov 2018
Conferencia Binacional en Asuntos Fronterizos 2018
Más allá del muro: resistencias desde las comunidades fronterizas
Jueves 15 de Noviembre
San Diego City College, San Diego
Viernes 16 de Noviembre
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Tijuana
Programa
Facebook Event
Acerca de la Conferencia
En esta coyuntura en la que las democracias están fallando como una opción frente a un sistema deshumanizante y depredador y cuando asistimos a la fortificación del muro entre México y los Estados Unidos, nos interesa discutir y mostrar las formas de resistencia surgidas desde las comunidades fronterizas y transfronterizas. La llegada de Trump a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos ha generado una tensión entre la población que afecta directamente la vida cotidiana de personas de origen latino y especialmente de México y de las comunidades fronterizas. ¿Cuáles son las posibles formas de enfrentar este nuevo orden neoconservador? ¿Desde qué experiencias organizativas se han empezado a crear espacios de reflexión y acción transformadora? ¿Cómo responder a las nuevas y viejas formas de discriminación y negación de las minorías?
Acerca del Programa
En la Séptima Conferencia Binacional discutiremos las formas de resistencia surgidas desde las comunidades fronterizas y transfronterizas recorriéndolas en diferentes tiempos, espacios y formas. Tendremos la oportunidad de escuchar las voces de activistas, estudiantes, académic@s, trabajadoras de maquila, jornaleras, migrantes, artistas que se organizan ante historias de violencia, inequidad en el trabajo, salud, educación, etc. Sus palabras y arte nos llevarán desde la frontera Estados Unidos con México, hasta las de Guatemala, El Salvador y hasta Palestina. Nos llevarán a recorrer el tiempo a través de la resistencia desde la conquista de los pueblos originarios de las Américas hasta nuestra era en que las fronteras significan migración de países del sur hacia Estados Unidos, deportaciones de Estados Unidos al sur, y las historias que se van escribiendo a su paso en las calles, las aulas, las fábricas, los campos agrícolas.
Desafiando fronteras
No es casual que la movilización de comunidades migrantes y su desafío a las fronteras nacionales sea el tema central de la Conferencia. Las migraciones nacionales y transnacionales son sin duda uno de los movimientos más importantes de nuestro tiempo, producto de la globalización neoliberal. Las migraciones son discutidas en la conferencia desde diferentes perspectivas.
Panel 4: Estudiantes transfronterizos que viven en un país y estudian en otro nos hablan de sus desafíos y principalmente de sus éxitos organizándose en el Colectivo TASO.
Panel 7: Las comunidades originales de México, muchas de ellas mesoamericanas, han emigrado por miles al norte. El Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales nos habla de los esfuerzos de los pueblos para organizar sus comunidades, ahora binacionales, en el exilio.
Paneles 14 y 25: Andrea González, académica de la UNAM que participa en el colectivo “Ustedes Somos Nosotros” compartirá historias de migración en la Ciudad de México que es ahora no sólo es lugar de paso para personas migrantes sino también se ha convertido en un espacio de destino y refugio para comunidades provenientes de Centroamérica, Venezuela, Colombia, Haití y otros países latinoamericanos, asiáticos y africanos.
Paneles 13 y 24: Steven Mayers y Jonathan Freedman y jóvenes centroamericanos que han llegado a los Estados Unidos después de exitosamente cruzar al menos tres fronteras nacionales nos narran las sus historias.
Panel 21: Leslie Quintanilla y América Martínez nos presentan las luchas del Pueblo Palestino en las fronteras impuestas por Israel.
Panel 15: Teresita Rocha and Shira Goldenberg presentan la inequidad de género en asuntos de salud en las fronteras de EUA con México y de México con Guatemala.
Resistiendo las deportaciones
Panel 6: Maggie y Etziba, integrantes de los colectivos “Other Dreamers en Acción” y “Casa Poch@” vienen de la ciudad de México para hablarnos de jóvenes que crecieron en los Estados Unidos y ahora están en México debido a la deportación o el retorno. Ellas discutirán las realidades de un sistema de inmigración injusto, y cómo se están organizando en su país de nacimiento para abogar por la justicia de los migrantes.
Panel 23: Esmeralda Flores nos presenta los esfuerzos de ACLU en construir una red que defienda a la comunidad contra redadas y ataques de la Migra.
Radiografía del crimen organizado
Panel 10: Victor Clark, académico de SDSU nos llevará en un viaje imaginario a las calles de Tijuana para conocer cómo el crimen organizado se ha reproducido y consolidado; ya no es sólo un grupo el que mantiene el monopolio de las drogas y la violencia, sino varios se disputan el mercado, provocando niveles escandalosos de violencia, que han afectado y trastocado la vida en la ciudad.
Panel 19: Jane Terrazas presenta su obra construida por vestigios textiles de los feminicidios de Ciudad Juárez. Los desgarradores pedazos de tela reconstruidos por Jane son un grito tremendo de la lucha de las mujeres de Juárez contra el asesinado y la violencia exacerbada de género.
Maquiladoras
Paneles 12 y 15: Desde que NAFTA (Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica fue aprobado en 1994, las maquiladoras se han apropiado de la zona fronteriza y reclutado más de un millón de trabajadoras. Investigadoras, trabajadoras y activistas nos dan una actualización de los derechos laborales y de género en maquilas de Puebla, Aguascalientes y Tijuana así como en las “maquilas agrícolas” del Valle de San Quintín.
Derecho al Agua
El agua es sin duda uno de los grandes temas de la frontera y más allá. El derecho al agua moviliza miles en México, Estados Unidos, otros países y desde luego, en la frontera. En el Panel 2, el profesor y activista León Fierro nos narra esta lucha en un contexto binacional, y en especial en la Ciudad de Mexicali donde se ha dado una batalla por años contra Constellation Brands, corporación propietaria de Corona y otras cervezas, ya construye una maquiladora de cerveza que confiscará miles de galones de agua en una zona ya con problemas de abastecimiento para la población. En Panel 21 Mellissa Linton-Villafranco nos presenta la lucha de una comunidad indígena de El Salvador en defensa de su agua.
Arte y Frontera
La Frontera es motivo de una creciente producción artística que la Conferencia explora. La Exhibición “Desde Más Acá” reúne proyectos de 18 artistas, investigadores y colectivos trabajando en San Diego/Tijuana, Calexico/Mexicali, El Paso/Ciudad Juarez y a través de la región fronteriza. Sus prácticas trazan las maneras en las que quienes viven, estudian y trabajan en este territorio transnacional contienden con la frontera entre EUA y México a nivel cotidiano – a escala de cuerpo, labor, y movimiento a través del espacio.
Paneles 19 y 20: Jane Terrazas, Diana Cervera, Omar Pimienta y Sara Solaimani presentan su trabajo artístico y cultural contra los feminicidios, la intersección de género, raza, identidad y migración, trans-nacionalidad y su contexto histórico.
Panel 11: Un grupo de académicos y activistas nos dan una actualización de la renovación y preservación del Chicano Park, la renovación de sus murales, y la resistencia contra los grupos racistas y supremacistas que han dirigido sus esfuerzos contra el parque.
En Panel 22 Marlene Solis reflexiona acerca de la dimensión simbólica de la frontera a partir de las obras Tijuana la Horrible: entre la historia y el mito, De contrabando y mojado, la frontera imaginada (México -Estados Unidos) y Fronteras reales /fronteras escritas recientemente por Humberto Félix Berumen.
Cine y frontera
En el género de cine, Mael Vizacarra presenta en Panel 17 su documental “Todo lo que Uno Hace” sobre los vendedores ambulantes en la línea. En Panel 18, Ebony Bailey exhibe su documental corto sobre la comunidad haitiana en Tijuana.
Historia
En Panel 3, los historiadores Javier Torres de UNAM, Miguel Angel Castañeda de SDSU y Justin Akers Chacón de City College recuperan momentos importantes de la lucha de nuestros pueblos en ambos lados de la frontera.
Hay más…
En fin, la Conferencia trae mucho más. Estudiantes de City College presentan algunos trabajos en Paneles 1 y 8; varios autores exploran la resistencia a políticas de segregación en Panel 5, 16 y 23, y el programa no acaba aquí. Hay más; consulte el programa.
Binational Conference on Border Issues Nov 15-16 2018
Binational Conference on Border Issues 2018
Beyond the Wall: Resistance among Border Communities
Thursday, November 15
San Diego City College, San Diego
Friday, November 16
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and
Autonomous University of Baja California
Tijuana, Baja California
Tijuana, Baja California
Program:
Special thanks to our co-sponsors and collaborators: San Diego City College, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, City College Chicana and Chicano Studies, Colectivo Raíces sin Fronteras, Colectivo Ollin Calli, University of San Diego Karen and Mulvaney Center for Community Awareness and Social Action, American Federation of Teachers local 1931,UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities, City Cognate Collective, City College Gallery, City World Cultures Program
About the Conference
At a time in which democracies are failing, in the face of a dehumanizing and predatory system, and as we witness the fortification of the wall between Mexico and the United States, we are interested in discussing and showing the forms of resistance that have arisen from the border and transborder communities. The Trump administration generates tension that directly affects the daily life of Latina/os, especially those from Mexico and from border communities. What are the possible ways to face this new neoconservative order? From what organizational experiences have we begun to create spaces for reflection and transformative action? How do we respond to new and old forms of discrimination against marginalized communities?
About the Program
The Seventh Binational Conference will discuss the forms of resistance that arise from the border and cross-border communities, going through them in different times, spaces and forms. We will have the opportunity to hear the voices of activists, students, scholars, maquila workers, farmworkers, migrants, and artists who organize and resist violence, labor inequity, health, education, etc. Their words and art will take us from the United States – Mexico border to borders in Guatemala, El Salvador and even Palestine. They will lead us to different moments of resistance from the conquest of the original peoples of the Americas to this era in which borders mean migration from southern countries to the United States, deportations from the United States to the south, and stories written in the streets, the classrooms, the factories, and the agricultural fields.
Challenging borders
It is no coincidence that the mobilization of migrant communities and their challenge to national borders is the central topic of the Conference. National and transnational migrations are undoubtedly one of the most important movements of our time; products of Neoliberal globalization. Migration will be one main focus in the conference from different perspectives.
Panel 4: Cross-border students who live in a country and attend school in another tell us about their challenges and mainly about their successes organizing in Collective TASO.
Panel 7: The original communities of Mexico, many of them Mesoamerican, have migrated by the thousands to the north. The Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations tells us about the efforts of the original peoples to organize their communities, now binational, in exile.
Panels 14 and 25: Andrea González, scholar from UNAM and member of the collective "You are Us," will share stories of migration in Mexico City that is now not only a place of passage for migrants but it has also become a space of destination and refuge for communities from Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti and other Latin American, Asian and African countries.
Panels 13 and 24: Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman tell us the stories of young Central Americans who have arrived in the United States after successfully crossing at least three national borders.
Panel 21: Leslie Quintanilla and America Martinez will present on the struggles of the Palestinian people on the borders imposed by Israel.
Panel 15: Teresita Rocha and Shira Goldenberg discuss gender inequity in health issues at the borders of the USA with Mexico and Mexico with Guatemala.
Resisting deportations
Panel 6: Maggie and Etziba, members of the collectives "Other Dreamers in Action" and "Casa Poch @" come from Mexico City to talk about young people who grew up in the United States and are now in Mexico due to deportation or return. They will discuss the realities of an unjust immigration system, and how they are organizing in their country of birth and advocate for immigrants justice.
Panel 23: Esmeralda Flores presents the efforts of ACLU in building a network that defends the community against immigration raids and attacks.
Examination of Border Organized Crime
Panel 10: Victor Clark, faculty at SDSU will take us on an imaginary trip to the streets of Tijuana to learn how organized crime has been reproduced and consolidated; It is no longer just a group that maintains a monopoly on drugs and violence, but several that dispute the market, causing scandalous levels of violence, which have affected and disrupted life in the city.
Panel 19: Jane Terrazas presents her work constructed by textile vestiges of the femicides of Juarez. The heartbreaking pieces of cloth reconstructed by Jane are a tremendous testimony of the struggle of the women of Juarez against the murder and the gender exacerbated violence.
Maquiladoras
Panels 12 and 15: Since NAFTA was imposed, the maquiladoras have expanded on the border zone recruiting more than one million workers; scholars, workers and activists will give us an update on labor and gender rights in maquiladoras at Puebla, Aguascalientes and Tijuana as well as in the “agricultural maquiladoras” of San Quintin, Baja California.
Right to Water
Water is undoubtedly one of the great issues of the border and beyond. The right to water mobilizes thousands in Mexico, the United States, other countries, and on the borderland. In Panel 2, professor and water defender León Fierro tells us about the struggle for water in a binational context, and especially in the City of Mexicali, where people fight against Constellation Brands, the corporation that owns Corona and other beers, due to the building of a beer maquiladora that will confiscate thousands of gallons of water in an area already with problems of supply for the population. In Panel 21 Mellissa Linton-Villafranco presents the struggle of an indigenous community of El Salvador in defense of its water.
Art and Border
The Frontier inspires an increasing artistic production that the Conference explores. The “Desde Más Acá” exhibition brings together 18 artists, researchers and collectives working in San Diego, Tijuana, Calexico/Mexicali, El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and throughout the borderlands whose practices trace how those who live, study and work in this transnational territory contend with the US/Mexico border and its problematics on a quotidian level -- at the scale of body, labor, and movement through spaces.
Panels 19 and 20: Jane Terrazas, Diana Cervera, Omar Pimienta and Sara Solaimani present their artistic and cultural work against feminicide, the intersection of gender, race, identity and migration, trans-nationality and the historical context.
Panel 11: A group of academics and activists give us an update on the renovation and preservation of Chicano Park, the renovation of its murals, and the resistance against the White supremacist groups that have directed their efforts against the park.
In Panel 22 Marlene Solis reflects on the symbolic dimension of the border from the works Tijuana la Horrible: Tijuana la Horrible: entre la historia y el mito, De contrabando y mojado, la frontera imaginada (México -Estados Unidos) and Fronteras reales /fronteras imaginadas recently written by Humberto Félix Berumen.
Cinema and border
Panel 17: Mael Vizacarra presents her documentary "Everything We Do" about the street vendors on the line of cars crossing from Tijuana to San Diego. In Panel 18, Ebony Bailey exhibits her short documentary about the Haitian community in Tijuana.
History
In Panel 3, historians Javier Torres of UNAM, Miguel Angel Castañeda of SDSU and Justin Akers Chacón of City College recover important moments of the struggle of our peoples on both sides of the border.
There is more…
The Conference brings much more. City College students present some of their works in Panels 1 and 8; several authors explore the resistance to segregation policies in Panel 5, 16 and 23. The program does not end here. There is more; check the Program
FREE DACA renewal help and application FEE WAIVER assistance Nov 2018
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Hikianalia Arrival & Welcome Ceremony – San Diego, CA: Oct 30 2018
October 30 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Hikianalia will be visiting your community and we’d like to invite you to join our arrival ceremony! This event is free, open to the public and great for people of all ages interested in voyaging, traditional wayfinding, and Hawaiian culture.
Traditional voyaging canoe Hikianalia has sailed more than 2,800 miles from the shores of Hawaiʻi across the North Pacific to the State of California inspiring action toward an environmentally and culturally thriving world. We are excited to meet you as we continue sailing down the California coast: keep up with us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter… and as always, at www.hokulea.com
Palestine & El Salvador Community Report-back OCT 19, 2018
Hola todxs,
I want to invite all of you to a community report back that I am co-organizing with America Martinez and Mellissa Linton.
Connecting Struggles: From Palestine & El Salvador to SD/TJ Borderlands
Friday October 19, 2019
6:30pm-8:00pm
Khaled Bakrawi Community Center مركز الشهيد خالد بكراوي
327 East Main Street, El Cajon, California 92020
As some of you know, America and I went to Palestine over the summer and we are hoping to extend our joint-struggle movement efforts from Palestine to the local context. For those of you that are free, we hope you'll be able to come.
Please feel free to invite your students to this event as well!
Muchas gracias por el apoyo,
Leslie
Original Peoples Unity Gathering- Oct 11, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 6 PM – 9 PM
Chicano Park
It will 526 years since the fateful arrival of the first European colonists to this hemisphere. What followed is a divesting, systematic genocidal treatment of the Original Peoples of not only the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, Abya Yala, but Africa, the Pacific Islands, Asia and Oceana. Today the need for unity to the confront the repercussions of European Colonialism and their subsequent nation states. Original Peoples are faced with poverty, malnutrition, lack of healthcare, employment opportunities and other many other conditions. We will stand together to confront our conditions under colonialism. Please come and stand with us, together, unified in struggle. Bring chairs and water to share.
Latin America Musical Narratives, Oct 10, 2018
Enrique:
This will be a combination of playing music (YouTube links), a commentary by me and an invitation to discuss (you are welcome to join me the podium for comments -- this is intended to be a time for enjoyment), and some Power Point slides to help organize the material.
What might be of particular interest to the students is that I've included one of the songs by Ramon 'Chunky' Sanchez with his San Diego corrido based on the Mexican one Valentin de la Sierra. This is from an article I wrote that included an interview with Ramon. The idea is to show San Diego connections to the broader and very varied experience of Latin America.
Some of the other artists preented will include Caridad de la Luz (NuyoRican), Celia Cruz (Cuban-American), Celina Y Reutilio (Afro-Cuban), Gotan Project (Argentina tango), an excerpt from a video on candomble (Brazil - religious - santeria), a Yaqui deer dance . . . and a question about what is 'Latin' and what is 'America' in 'Latin America.'
I will invite those present to dialogue with each other and to offer comments.
Hopefully, it will make what we do as instructors a time for students to enjoy and get engaged.
Please join me,
Thank you,
Joeac
AFT National Files Class Action Lawsuit Over Student Loans
Dear Jim,
Today, AFT members from California, Florida, Maryland and New York—on behalf of all similarly situated public servants—filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against one of the largest federal student loan servicers, Navient. The suit alleges that Navient misled borrowers about their options regarding enrollment in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program.
As a union of 1.7 million professionals, we are committed to helping tackle the student debt crisis by taking on the rigged system that puts corporate profits over public sector workers, and by supporting this national class action.
AFT’s support for this lawsuit is the direct result of the work we have done together as a union over the last several years to help our members struggling with student debt—through AFT Student Debt Clinics, through state legislation and federal regulation, and through our organizing work. We heard our members loud and clear and are sharing the value of being a union member, by taking on the rigged student debt system.
When we launched a member survey specifically targeted on student debt several months ago, we received thousands of responses. Eight out of 10 members said student debt was a major burden or challenge, and a remarkable number of members shared stories about being denied entry into the PSLF program.
Indeed, new data released last week by the Department of Education show that only 96 of the 28,000 borrowers who applied for the program, have actually had their student loans discharged under PSLF.
Upon further investigation, it became clear that Navient was giving bad advice to the teachers, school counselors, PSRPs, healthcare professionals and other public employees the PSLF program was intended to help. The result? Millions of public servants—and many AFT members—are missing out on the possibility of loan forgiveness in exchange for their work in public service. They’re paying thousands of dollars more toward their student debt than they have to, all because Navient wants to keep their loans so that it can keep charging fees, instead of transferring the borrowers to another servicer that administers PSLF. This reckless and negligent behavior was too egregious for us to ignore.
So we moved forward to support the AFT members who filed a national class-action lawsuit on behalf of public sector workers across the country harmed by Navient. This lawsuit, unlike any other suit filed, seeks an injunction to stop the deceptive practices Navient has been accused of engaging in. For more information about this class action, and to learn how it might affect you, click here.
We’ve heard our members’ concerns and complaints about the ruinous effect the debt has had on their lives, and we’ve taken on the student debt crisis as a major campaign. It’s an epidemic, and people are suffering. The stories from members haunt me—from new teachers who can’t stay in the profession because they’re defaulting on their loans, to experienced professionals who can’t retire because they can’t afford payments on their kids’ loans. This crisis affects us all.
Let’s be clear: The lawsuit alone will not fix the student debt crisis. And while we’re not the only ones seeking legal remedies, we know that we need to keep fighting for sustainable funding for higher education, as well as legislative and regulatory safeguards to make college more affordable. We also need to continue to hold the U.S. Department of Education and its contracted private servicers—like Navient—accountable to their responsibility to help student loan borrowers struggling with the burden of student debt and to ensure that loan servicers are not engaged in deceptive activity.
If you want to take action to tell the Department of Education to stop protecting loan servicers like Navient, and to start helping public sector workers enroll in PSLF, click here.
In unity,
Randi Weingarten
AFT President
Film: The U.S. Invasion of Mexico 1846 - 1848. Foreigners in Their Own Land
Latino Americans Episode 1: Foreigners in Their Own Land
Episode 1 | 53m 37s
Explores the period from 1565-1880, as the first Spanish explorers enter North America, the U.S. expands into territories in the Southwest that had been home to Native Americans and English and Spanish colonies, and as the Mexican-American War strips Mexico of half its territories by 1848.
Immigration Know your Right at City College: Sep 28, 2018
Know Your Rights Presentation
Brought to you by AFT-San Diego City
College's Support to Immigrant Students
Committee and ACLU of SD-Imperial Counties
Empowering and informing immigrant students
and our families
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Overview of San Diego's Rapid Response
Network: how we work and how you can get involved
Friday, 09/28/2018
11:30am
SDCC Room AH 200-A
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, JOIN US!
Paid Canvassers - Alliance San Diego
Now Hiring -- Paid Canvassers
NOW HIRING---PAID CANVASSER POSITIONS AVAILABLE!!
Are you a passionate individual looking for a job that allows you to get paid to do meaningful, civic engagement work in San Diego? We have the position for you!
Alliance San Diego (alliancesd.org) is hiring paid canvassers for its Fall 2018 Civic Engagement Program! The program will begin Saturday, September 8, 2018. The work shift is generally Sunday through Thursday 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Saturdays 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, and Fridays off.
This civic engagement program will educate voters on the importance of local and state issues. We are looking for individuals who are interested in motivating and mobilizing residents to help create a brighter future for San Diego.
Qualifications
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to read and write in English.
- Good people skills.
- Energetic and physically able to walk up to 2.5 miles during each work shift.
- Prior canvassing or equivalent experience is a plus.
- Proficiency in a second language (Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Tagalog, etc.) is a plus.
If you're interested and available for this position, please email your resume with two references to employment@alliancesd.org.
PLEASE NO WALK-INS OR CALLS -- EMAIL YOUR RESUME TO BE CONSIDERED.
From the resumes submitted, we will invite selected candidates to a group interview during which candidates will be asked questions and can learn more about the job requirements. Candidates who are selected to move forward from the group interview will be invited to a second interview. Hiring decisions will be made from the pool of candidates completing both steps in the process. (You must be available to attend these two interviews to be considered for this position).
Pay rate is $16.00 per hour. Positions are part-time & temporary.
Alliance San Diego is an equal opportunity employer that encourages all people to apply. Applicants shall not be discriminated against based on religion, race, color, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Limpia del Corazón-- Sep 22 2018
You are invited by the Arts Advisory Committee (AAC) of the Centro Cultural De La Raza to join us for Limpia del Corazón, a day of volunteering to regenerate the Centro bringing it closer to serving you, our community.
On September 22nd, 2018 from 11am to 3pm we will begin with a smudging of the space followed by tasks including gardening, yard sale, cleaning, painting, moving furniture, and additional organizing tasks.
For those that use the Centro regularly, haven't been there in a while or have never been there, come join us and be a part of the transformation. We look forward to seeing you!
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Financial Aid Update
Denise S. Whisenhunt
Monday, September 17, 2018 6:24 PM
Colleagues,
As you all likely know, City, Mesa and Miramar Colleges are transitioning to a new administrative system. This is a very complex process and we are committed to minimizing the impact on students. To avoid any delays in getting financial aid checks to students by September 21st, all students will pick up their checks at their Financial Aid campus, rather than have them mailed. You can help by encouraging students to check their email for detailed information if they have not received it already, about our manual check distribution process that that will begin tomorrow, on September 18th. Students may pick up checks in the Office of Student Affairs this week.
Special thanks to District Student Services, Financial Aid, Student Accounting, Student Affairs, Business Services and Student Services departments for working so collaboratively in support of our students.
Best,
Sincerely,
Denise Whisenhunt
Vice President of Student Services
San Diego City College
(619) 388-3464
Monday, September 17, 2018 6:24 PM
Colleagues,
As you all likely know, City, Mesa and Miramar Colleges are transitioning to a new administrative system. This is a very complex process and we are committed to minimizing the impact on students. To avoid any delays in getting financial aid checks to students by September 21st, all students will pick up their checks at their Financial Aid campus, rather than have them mailed. You can help by encouraging students to check their email for detailed information if they have not received it already, about our manual check distribution process that that will begin tomorrow, on September 18th. Students may pick up checks in the Office of Student Affairs this week.
Special thanks to District Student Services, Financial Aid, Student Accounting, Student Affairs, Business Services and Student Services departments for working so collaboratively in support of our students.
Best,
Sincerely,
Denise Whisenhunt
Vice President of Student Services
San Diego City College
(619) 388-3464
Radicals in the Barrio-- Sep 19, 2018
Facebook Event
Details
As part of ARE’s ongoing efforts to popularize Ethnic Studies and put critical books in the hands of the people, we are honored to host educator and author Justin Akers Chacon, a local San Diego City College professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies, who will be joining us for a book-release and presentation about his latest book, Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies and Communists in the Mexican-American Working Class. The event is FREE and open to the public!
In the author’s own words, Radicals in the Barrio, “is an attempt to bring into focus the rich and deeply interwoven history to Mexican working-class people in the hardscrabble labor and civil rights struggles of the early 20th century. The invisibility of Mexicans in the canon of early labor and civil rights history continues to the present, where we see the suppression of the voices, narratives, and experiences of Mexican and Mexican-descendent people in the discourse of immigration politics. The book is an attempt to bring some of this history into the foreground.”
Please join us to celebrate this groundbreaking text and continue the work to center Raza voices, and resist the silencing of our histories!
Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event!
Preview the intro and a couple chapters here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mxe-NrHOYxyyzu5wCQZMeZmtPypYyXgb
For more information, please email aresandiego94@gmail.com
Ayotzi Vive-- Sep 26, 2018
AYOTZI VIVE!!
Cuatro años sin verdad y sin justicia
Four Years fighting for Justice and the Truth
Sep 25, 2018
2:30 pm City College MS 451
Ayotzinapa 4 year later
Ayotzinapa update-.Presentation about the case of Ayotzinapa and the perspectives of the movement for justice and the presentation of the 43 students.
Sep 26, 2018
6:30 - 9:00 am Consulate of Mexico
1549 India St, San DiegoMural on the sidewalk with chalk. Action directed by the artist Alex Ortigoza and open to community participation. Bring your children!
11:00 am San Diego City College
MEChA City CollegeAction for the 43 at the MS Entrance at 11:00 when students enter to class
6:00 pm San Ysidro trolley station
San Ysidro
43 people holding posters, banners and commemorative shirt in support of the 43 of Ayotzi.
- Because 4 years have passed without truth or justice
- Because the government continues to deny their participation despite the evidence that state, federal police and the army participated in the disappearance of the 43 and the murder of 6 in the terrible night of Iguala, on September 26, 2014.
- Because in Mexico we are missing 43 and more than 34 thousand more disappeared.
- Because the mothers and fathers of the 43 disappeared and murdered students ask us: Do not forget us!
- Because even though we are far from Mexico, the indignation and anger of so much injustice reaches us on this side of the border.
Come with us on Wednesday, September 26, to the actions we will be having to remind the government and the people that Ayotzinapa lives and that no matter how much they want to silence us, we continue with the demand for justice.
We know that it is a week day with limited times for work or school, but all we need is a little of your time.
BECAUSE THEY TOOK THEM ALIVE, WE WANT THEM BACK ALIVE!
Early morning and evening events sponsored by: Raices sin Fronteras, Danza Mexika Tlayolohtli de San Diego and San Diego 43.
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/742435336100414/
More information about Ayotzinapa:
https://rymsmex.blogspot.com/search/label/Ayotzinapa
Honorspalooza along with PATH and Transfer Info!
We're having a City College Honors Fest in AH 202 at 2PM on Thursday, September 20th! Come learn about the Honors Program--contracts, courses, benefits, transfer, and more! We'll also have information on the PATH Program (Preparing Accomplished Transfers in the Humanities), a grant that our district has with UCSD to help and support Humanities discipline majors transfer to UCSD--many of them have been Honors students. Meet the Honors coordinators, staff, and counselor! And EAT! There will be drinks and snacks and good times. So join us!
Come to learn how you can help with the crisis at the border!
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Saturday, September 8th 2:00 – 4:00
César E. Chávez Campus, 1901 Main St. (Barrio Logan)
Room 103 (main floor) San Diego, CA 92113.
CBBer Deborah Dorn and I have been exploring how to help people who are now living in Tijuana, some of them due to deportation and some who are escaping turmoil in their home region.
In recent visits to Tijuana, we have met some wonderful people who are open heartedly helping newly arrived people find their way in time of crisis. In the best scenarios, these amazing human rights defenders are guiding the new arrivals from crisis to purpose: helping them re- construct their lives in what has now become their home, Tijuana.
We would like to invite you to meet some of today's heroes working tirelessly in service to displaced people:
Saturday, September 8th 2:00 – 4:00
César E. Chávez Campus, 1901 Main St. (Barrio Logan)
Room 103 (main floor) San Diego, CA 92113.
Free parking is under the building.
Attorneys from both sides of the border will be there: Elizabeth Camareno, Casa Cornelia,USA. and Graciela Zamudia, Alma Migrante, Tijuana
We will also hear from Carlos and MariJose about the innovative programming going on at Casa del Migrante, the oldest shelter for migrants in Mexico. Please see the video below of one of the places Deborah and I visited recently.
Please mark your calendar now and feel free to bring friends that want to get informed and/or involved. Explore whether you will want to pitch in and help/volunteer.
Please RSVP to ddorn2000@yahoo.com and to me!
Respectfully,
Deborah & Maria Senour
Little Haiti in Tijuana established by those rejected at the US border
Rally for the Dream-- Sep 5
Who: San Diego Border Dreamers (SDBD)
What: SDBD hosting a press conference to speak on the current state of affairs
When: Wednesday September 5th, 6pm-7pm
Where: Waterfront Park, Downtown San Diego 1600 Pacific Hwy, San Diego, CA 92101
On September 5, 2017 Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that allowed over 800 thousand undocumented youth to pursue their dreams and be safe from deportation. Because of a court injunction we were able to stop the termination of DACA, but the program is continuously under attack. This has placed our sisters and brothers in a state of limbo. The potential rescinding of DACA puts almost a million people who have lived in this country most of their lives at risk of deportation. For those of us in the border region, the danger of deportation is much higher and devastating. We have seen the consequences of militarizing of the border through policy like ‘Zero Tolerance’ which literally lead to the kidnapping of children away from their parents and putting them for ransom. The systematic separation of families is nothing new, but we as a collective community will no longer stand by idly and allow it to happen. We will no longer allow this bigoted and racist white house to use DREAMERS and kidnapped children as political bargaining chips.
USD School of Law has new scholarship for DACA students
Kate Morrissey San Diego Union Tribune
Aug 27, 2018
University of San Diego School of Law has a new scholarship fund for unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
Though the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protects these immigrants from deportation, it does not give them access to federal funding for higher education. USD School of Law hopes that having such a scholarship will enable more DACA recipients to go to law school.
Help get rid of for-profit charter schools in California
Dear Enrique,
This is our chance to get rid of for-profit charter schools in California
Please take a moment to write a letter to Governor Jerry Brown, urging him to sign Assembly Bill 406, a landmark bill that would prohibit charter schools from operating as or by a for-profit corporation, a for-profit Educational Management Organization (EMO), or a Charter Management Organization (CMO).
Sponsored by CFT, and authored by Assemblymember Kevin McCarty and co-authored by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond, the bill recently passed out of the California legislature and is now on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature.
We know that there are currently 35 charter schools in California enrolling over 25,000 students that are either being operated as for-profit corporations or by for-profit corporations. These schools not only take money away from students for corporate profits with little to no transparency or accountability, they also take students away from traditional public schools, thus significantly impacting school funding at the district and school levels. Student achievement in these schools is dismal, posting graduation rates less than half of the statewide average.
AB 406 is an important step in ensuring that our public education dollars are not diverted to corporate profits. It is part of a broader effort by the CFT and other education advocates to hold charter schools accountable to the same standards as public schools.
Please take a moment to write a letter to the governor, encouraging him to sign this important piece of legislation into law.
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