Hikianalia Arrival & Welcome Ceremony – San Diego, CA: Oct 30 2018




October 30 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Tues, Oct 30, 4pm-6pm, Maritime Museum of San Diego, 1492 North Harbor Drive

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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.