San Diego Chicanao Blog

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Chicana/o Studies

Calendar of Action and Culture

Spring 2012

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The Women’s Studies Department of San Diego State University is pleased to present

The Second Annual

Reproductive and Sexual Justice

February 24, 2012 - 9 am to 5:30 pm

San Diego State University

Healing Circle and Training

Interested in learning holistic, social justice approaches

to reproductive and sexual well-being?

Register for the Reproductive and Sexual Justice Healing Circle and Training at San Diego State University!

Drawing from theories and practices developed by women of color, this special one-day event will explore reproductive and sexual health issues, such as abortion, contraception, HIV/STDs and access to health care, within the context of other social justice issues, including economic justice, immigrant rights and LGBTQ rights. We will use holistic, co-counseling techniques (e.g. attentive listening, truthful storytelling, and respectful dialogue) to help build community and inspire activism. By the end, we hope that participants will use this knowledge within their own communities. Given the focus on personal experience and mental and spiritual well-being, please note that the healing circle may elicit strong emotional responses. 

Leaders:

Gabriela Valle of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice

B. Cole of the Brown Boi Project

Luz Alvarez Martinez, former director of National Latina Health Organization

SDSU Women's Studies Department students and faculty

Where: San Diego State University's Alumni Center

When: Friday, February 24, 2012 - 9 am to 5:30 pm

Please note: An all-day commitment is required and participation is limited to 75 students, faculty and community members ages 18 and older.

Registration will be open from Monday, January 30, 2012 to Friday, February 10, 2012.

Registration is required. Please register at the following site:

 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDNZZjk5Q2M5V2xfMFdWb1dwQmtLX1E6MQ.  

You may also register through the SDSU Women's Studies web page: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~wsweb/

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Become a Citizen Today

Workshop

Saturday,

February 25th
9 am, 11 am, or 1 pm

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National Student Walkout

Thursday March 1st

11 am

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THE FIRST ANNUAL GRACIA MOLINA DE PICK FEMINIST LECTURE SERIES AT SAN DIEGO MESA COLLEGE

GUEST SPEAKER: SYLVIA MENDEZ "The case of Méndez v. Westminster and the Desegregation of Public Education"

11 AM TUESDAY

MARCH 6 ROOM: H-117/118

MESA COLLEGE

Sylvia Méndez is the oldest daughter of Gonzalo Méndez, a Mexican immigrant, and Felicitas Méndez, a Puerto Rican, who fought so she and her brothers could have equal education through the case of Méndez et al v. Westminster et al. Ms. Méndez continues the legacy left by her parents to campaign for education. Ms. Méndez was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, on February 15, 2011.

The Annual Gracia Molina de Pick Feminist Lecture Series honors the founder of the San Diego Mesa College Chicano Studies Department and recognizes her life-long commitment to education, feminism, and dedication to the mission of the community college.

Organized by the Chicano Studies Department. Co-sponsored by the San Diego Mesa College Humanities Institute and the Chicano Latino Heritage Celebration Committee.

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TIJUANA MAQUILADORA TOUR

Come to learn about Tijuana communities and workers' conditions and struggles!

Saturday, March 10
9 am to 3 pm

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Citizens returning from Mexico should present an U.S. passport. (Otherwise, they need an official ID, birth certificate, and waiting in line when returning to the U.S. for a period of time to be decided by the border gate officer.) More information: the U.S. State Dept. web site:

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_970.html#entry_requirements

All tour participants must read the US travel alert to Mexico and sign the tour waiver. Please read the attached file.

SCHEDULE

(THERE MAY BE SLIGHT VARIATIONS FROM TOUR TO TOUR.)

9:00 am sharp- San Ysidro/Tijuana border-bus station. We will walk together to cross the border gate and travel to our locations in Tijuana using chartered buses for transportation.

9:45 am- The crosses at the border: More than 7,000 immigrants have died trying to cross the border.

10:30 am- Otay Industrial Park, Sanyo, Douglas Furniture, other maquiladoras: workers’ labor conditions, labor rights and struggles NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won’t enter any factory.

11:00 am- Community Ejido Chilpancingo-Rio Alamar: industrialization, health, environment, urban development

11:30 pm- Metales y Derivados, a story of struggle and success for environmental justice

12:15 pm- Lunch

1:00 pm- Group dialogue about the experience; time for questions and comments

2:00 pm- Working women in Tijuana are organizing artisan cooperatives and promoting an alternative economy. They will bring their handcrafts to the tour. To learn in advance about these cooperatives, please go to http://www.ollincallicm.blogspot.com/

3:00 pm- Return to the Tijuana bus station

DONATIONS

$30 regular, $20 students, $ 50 solidarity

Donations cover the bus, lunch, and a donation to the workers’ organizations.

To reserve a place, please go to http://www.sdmaquila.org/

If you prefer to use the postal system, or for more information, please contact:

Herb Shore: sdmaquila@cox.net, (619) 287-5535

Sponsored by Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo for Environmental Justice, San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network, Environmental Health Coalition, and Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras

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Raza Educators
April 14, 2012
More info

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Commemorate 100 years of struggle for free speech!

February 8 at 6:00 p.m.

Intersection of 5th and E Streets

San Diego downtown

Brothers and sisters,

This year, we commemorate the 100-year anniversary of a city ordinance that banned public speaking and assembly in the area around 5th and E Streets in downtown San Diego and the subsequent battle that followed. During the course of this struggle, many were arrested, beaten and even killed for asserting their rights to simply stand on a soap box and speak.

The 100-year anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight is a celebration of the legacy of local labor and civil rights activism and a reminder that if we are not vigilant in the protection of our rights, we can certainly lose them.

Please join us as we commemorate the struggle for free speech in San Diego at the original site of the protests with music, performances, speeches, and special guests on Wednesday, February 8 at 6:00 p.m. at the Intersection of 5th and E Streets, San Diego 92101

Free parking is available at Horton Plaza, just 2 blocks away, with validation in the mall. Bring a flashlight if you have one.

We hope to see you there!

For more information about this event, contact Elizabeth at enewman@unionyes.org

To learn more about the history of the free speech fight in San Diego, visit www.aftguild.org/free_speech.

And, last ten days to see the San Diego Free Speech Fight 100-Year Anniversary Exhibit:

http://www.centroculturaldelaraza.org/

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Culture Clash February 8, 2012

Saville Theatre

11:10 am to 12:45 pm

Culture Clash at La Jolla Playhose
Feb 10, 8 pm
We have arranged to get 150 tickets reserved for our faculty and students for the Friday, February 10 at 8pm performance. Students and faculty can purchase $15 tickets for Use promo code: CITYCOLLEGE2626 to purchase online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org. We will have food trucks beginning at 6pm and Stone Beer samplings for anyone 21+. Attached is a flyer to email around to students and staff. Seating is limited, I recommend buying early. More info, click on the image

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Cuchumá: La montaña sagrada de Tecate
Presentación de documental
Viernes 17 de febrero, 7 pm
Escuela de Artes
Tecate

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, el Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, delegación Tecate y la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California invitan a la presentación del documental titulado Cuchumá: La montaña sagrada de Tecate.

La presentación se realizará este viernes 17 de febrero a las 19:00 horas, tiempo del pacífico, en el teatro de la Escuela de Artes de Tecate. Contará con la presencia de Pável Valenzuela, director del documental y de José Manuel Valenzuela, coordinador.

Cuchumá: La montaña sagrada de Tecate, es un video documental que registra la percepción sobre la condición espiritual, mística y ceremonial asociada a la montaña a través de las voces de nativas y nativos k’miai, personajes emblemáticos del yoga y la difusión de la filosofía hindú, neomexicanistas que realizan ceremonias en la montaña, pintores y escultores, que desde una perspectiva secular utilizan al Cuchumá como referente de su producción artística.

El evento cuenta con el apoyo del Gobierno del Estado a través del Instituto de Cultura, la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California y la Escuela de Artes, CAREM, el Taller de Historia de Tecate, Cuautémoc Moctezuma y California Medios.

Entrada libre.
Mayores informes
+52 (664) 631-6300 ext. 1155
informes@colef.mx

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Chicana/o Studies

Calendar of Action and Culture
Old Events

Spring 2012

The SAN DIEGO FREE SPEECH FIGHT CENTENNIAL!
January 26
Your AFT Guild, in concert with the City College BEAT Club, the City College Labor Studies Program, the San Diego Imperial Counties Labor Council, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and others are proud to be part of the commemoration of the 100 Year Anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight.

January 26th at 7:00 PM at the Saville Theatre: City College

Commemoration This event will feature Voices of People’s History speeches performed by City College students and others, original IWW songs performed by Gregory Page and The Proles, the premiere of documentary on the San Diego Free Speech Fight, a reading from Jim Miller’s Flash, and more! Before and after the performances check out Golden Lands/Working Hands, the CFT’s mobile labor history display. All are welcome. This event is free and open to the public. For more information go to: http://www.aftguild.org/free_speech/

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"Lemon Grove Incident" Screening w/ Filmmaker Paul Espinosa

Fri., Feb. 3 @ 7pm

Centro Cultural de la Raza

Come to the Centro on Feb. 3 for a special screening and discussion of the award-winning film "The Lemon Grove Incident" with filmmaker Paul Espinosa. Learn about the first successful desegregation case in the nation, which happened right here in San Diego's Latino community in 1931, more than two decades before Brown vs. Board of Education! Don't miss your opportunity to watch this classic film, which includes interviews with actual participants and re-enactments by some local notables, including Guillermo Gomez Peña!

'Lemon Grove Incident' Remembered 80 Years Later

Click Here to read a great article on last year's 80th Anniversary of this important legal case!

This screening is part of the San Diego Free Speech Fight 100th Anniversary celebration, which includes an exhibit at the Centro of photographs from 1912, original pieces by Fred Lonidier (AFT 2034) and other local artists. The exhibit is on display until Feb. 12.

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Price Scholarships

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Our mission is to increase the self confidence, cultivate the competence, and strengthen the character of deserving students in San Diego by supporting them in furthering their educational, professional, and career readiness skills.

The Price Scholarship Program assists students from San Diego to complete an Associate Degree and/or Certificate Program at San Diego City College in two to three years. The assistance we provide for students comes in many forms: financial assistance, seminars, individual counseling, mentoring, a program retreat, and social events.

Price Scholarship Program: Price

The Price Scholarship Program is extending an invitation to current City College students to apply to our Price Scholarship Program. Eight City College scholarships are available to students who must:

► Be currently enrolled and in good standing at San Diego City College.

► Residents of the downtown, mid-city, or southeast area of San Diego.

► Have a minimum 2.5 Grade Point Average in their college studies.

► Have graduated from high school within the last 7 years and are interested in completing a Certificate of Achievement, an Associates Degree, Transfer Studies, or a Certificate of Completion.

► Have demonstrated financial need.

► Perform 5 or 8 hours of Community Service/internships weekly with a pre-selected community agency or school throughout their participation in the program.

Scholars will gain valuable experience through structured job shadowing, and community service assignments, with local community agencies, schools, and businesses in City Heights, Balboa Park, and other central and southeastern areas of San Diego.

The scholarship year will begin in June 2012 and may be renewable if the student remains in good standing academically and programmatically. Scholarship participants will perform 5 or 8 hours per week and choose a site from the current list locations and services that offer a range of experiences. Scholars will receive $9,000 over a two year period. Scholars are required to attend regular weekly classes throughout their first year of participation in the program and meet with program staff on an ongoing basis to assess their performance and progress in the program.

Applications are available in the Price Scholarship Program Office/Room L-114D or online at http://www.pricescholars.org/ beginning Monday, November 14, 2011 and they will be due back to our office by Friday, December 16, 2010 at 12:00 noon. Students who are accepted into the program will be required to attend a program orientation in June 2012 before they begin their program in August 2012.

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Chicana/o Studies

Calendar of Action and Culture

Fall 2011

2nd Binational Conference on Border Issues
2a Conferencia Binacional sobre Asuntos Fronterizos

Politics of Violence:
Militarization, Incarceration and Globalization in the U.S./ Mexico Border Area

Políticas de violencia:
Globalización, encarcelamiento y militarización en la frontera USA/ México

San Diego City College
December 1, 2011
9 am - 3 pm, Room/Salón D 121A

See the Conference Program: Binational Conference

The speaker cancelled the presentation
~~Wednesday, September 21~~

~~Presentation~~

~~Bonnie Dumanis, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Constitutional Rights~~

~~9:40 – 10:50 am Saville~~

Clun BEAT is organizing a protest of District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis who is coming to speak during Constitution Week in order to gain support for her mayoral race--remember she was to a large degree responsible for the murder of Diana Gonzalez last October due to malfeasance in her office.
~~http://sdbeatclub.wordpress.com/~~

Monday, September 26

Presentation

Kiki Ochoa, Association of Raza Educators

“Human Rights: The Struggle for a Better World”

9:40 – 10:50 am Saville

http://www.aresandiego.com/

Tuesday, September 27

Movie

Maquilapolis: City of Factories

9:40 – 10:50 am Saville

http://www.maquilapolis.com/

Tuesday, September 27
Forum

Maintaining a commitment to diversity at a time of education budget cuts

11:10-12:45
Room D 121A/B
San Diego City College

Wednesday, September 28

Movie

La Mama—Mother Antonia’s Life in Prison

11:15 – 12:30 pm Saville

http://lamamathemovie.com/

Thursday, September 29

Movie The Longoria Affair with filmmaker John Valadez

12:45 – 2:10 pm D 121 a/b

http://chicanaodispatches.blogspot.com/2011/03/longoria-affair.html

Monday, October 3

Movie: Viva Mexico9:35 am- 11:00 am Room A 213, SD City College
In a journey from the mountains of southeastern Mexico to the northern border with the United States, Subcommander Marcos and the people of Mexico trace the forgotten face of a country. A celebration of the struggle for land and dignity
http://www.vivamexicofilm.com/

Monday, October 3
San Diego Book Fair

D121A/B (Faculty Lounge)

11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

12:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.

Two readings and book signings with Benson Deng, co-author of They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Tuesday, October 4

San Diego Book Fair

D121A/B (Faculty Lounge)

11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Reading and book signing with Judy Patacsil and Felix Tuyay, co-authors of Images of America: Filipinos in San Diego

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Tuesday, October 4
Movie: Viva Mexico
World Beat Center, 7 pm
In a journey from the mountains of southeastern Mexico to the northern border with the United States, Subcommander Marcos and the people of Mexico trace the forgotten face of a country. A celebration of the struggle for land and dignity
http://www.vivamexicofilm.com/

Thursday, October 6--Canceled

~~San Diego Book Fair~~

~~D121A/B (Faculty Lounge)~~

~~11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.~~

"Picture Postcards" as a Source of Historical Evidence, lecture on historical postcards from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 with Paul Vanderwood, author of Satan’s Playground: Mobster and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort and Juan Soldado

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Thursday, October 6

San Diego Book Fair

D121A/B (Faculty Lounge)12:45 - 2:10 p.m.

Chicano Poetics: the Enduring Experience & Perspective, panel discussion with acclaimed poet Leroy Quintana and upcoming poets Angel Sandoval and Manuel Paul López

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Friday, October 7

San Diego Book Fair

Saville Theatre

6 - 7 p.m.

Panel discussion with Justin Akers Chacón, Victor Clark and Jill Holslin, contributors to Wounded Border/Frontera Herida: Readings on the Tijuana /San Diego Region and Beyond, an anthology published by City Works Press and edited by City College professors Enríque Dávalos and Justin Akers Chacón

7 - 8 p.m.

Concert by the Bill Caballero Bi-National Mambo Orchestra

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Saturday, October 8

San Diego Book Fair-Saville Theatre

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Marjorie Cohn, editor of The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse

Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego; immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild, and deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her fourth book, The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse, was published in January by NYU Press.

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Saturday, October 8

San Diego Book Fair-Saville Theatre

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Cris Mazza, author of Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls

Cris Mazza is the author of 14 books, including novels, short fiction and a memoir. Her works include the critically notable Is It Sexual Harassment Yet? and psychological novels of place, Girl Beside Him and Waterbaby. Many of Mazza's books take place in San Diego and the surrounding county, including Homeland, Trickle-Down Timeline, Indigenous: Growing up Californian, and her new novel Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, which looks at prostitute-slave trafficking in Southern California.

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Saturday, October 8

San Diego Book Fair-Saville Theatre

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Zohreh Ghahremani, author of Sky of Red Poppies

Zohreh Ghahremani (Zoe) is an Iranian-American whose book, Sky of Red Poppies, was released October 2010. It focuses on an unusual friendship between two young women coming of age in a politically divided 1960's Iran under rule of the Shah. Her first book, The Commiserator, was published in 2000 in her native language, Persian. Over two hundred of her essays and vignettes – both in English and Persian - have appeared in several magazines and bloggers. Gharemani has written three novels, including The Moon Daughter, which is a finalist in San Diego Book Awards.

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Saturday, October 8

San Diego Book Fair-Saville Theatre

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

Le thi diem thuy, author of The Gangster We Are All Looking For

Lê thi diem thúy was born in Phan Thiet, Southern Vietnam. She and her father left Vietnam by boat in 1978, eventually settling in Southern California. The writer was born in 1972, a year that is remembered in its totality as “the red fiery summer,” a time of fierce attacks from the north that resulted in fires that scorched the countryside. Her novel, The Gangster We Are All Looking For, captures the family’s experience; first appeared in the Massachusetts Review ; and was reprinted in Harper’s. It was included in Best American Essays `97, (as well the edition of Best American Essays that contains a selection of the “best of the best” from the past 12 volumes).

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Saturday, October 8

San Diego Book Fair-Saville Theatre

2:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of One Amazing Thing

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include women, immigration, the South Asian experience, history, myth, magic, and celebrating diversity. She writes both for adults and children. Her latest work, One Amazing Thing, was published in 2010.

Divakaruni is also the author of Arranged Marriage, which won an American Book Award. Her other works, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, have been made into films. In addition, Divakaruni is an acclaimed poet whose collection, Leaving Yuba City, won a Pushcart Prize, an Allen Ginsberg Prize and a Gerbode Foundation award. Her writing has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and been included in over 50 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 20 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Russian, and Japanese.

The author was born in India and lived there until 1976, when she left Calcutta and came to the United States. She earned a master’s degree in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Saturday, October 8

San Diego Book Fair-Saville Theatre

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Wanda Coleman, author of Jazz & Twelve O’clock Tales and The World Falls Away and contributor to Mamas and Papas, an anthology published by City Works Press and Austin Straus, author of Intensifications

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Saturday, October 8

San Diego Book Fair-Saville Theatre

4:30 - 5:30 p.m.

Luis Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. and It Calls You Back: A Writer's Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing

http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/

Thursday, October 13, 2:15 pm
Room A 213, San Diego City College
Movie Backyard
(It is about Ciudad Juarez)
Presented by Chicanao Film Club

Saturday, October 15
Action Day vs. Education budget cuts
Time/Place to be announced

Saturday, Oct 15
Film Precious Knowledge
A Chicano Revolucion Education in Arizona
San Diego State University, 4-7 pm
Room Arts & Letters 201
With the film director and a student activist from Tucson
Presented by the San Diego Ethnic Studies Consortium
http://sdethnicstudies.wordpress.com/

Wednesday, October 19

Fall Farm Festival

10:00 – 2:00 City College Farm

Terry Wilson, twilson@sdccd.edu

http://seedsatcityurbanfarm.blogspot.com/

Thursday, Oct 27
11 am - 12:45 pm, Room A 213
Coffe with a Justice Aroma
Presentation about fair trade coffee
Fair Trade Coffee Campaign

Thursday, Oct 27
Chicanao Film Club presents:
"South of the Border"
Room A213, 2:15 pm

Monday, October 31

Richard Griswold: Chicano Archives

9:40 – 10:50 am D121 a/b

http://aztlan.sdsu.edu/chicanohistory/

Wednesday, November 2

Dia de los Muertos

10:00 – 2:30 D 121 a/b

Thursday, November 3

Movie

Precious Knowledge: A Revolutionary Education with filmmaker Eren McGinnis

9:40 – 10:50 am Saville

http://sdnoillegal.blogspot.com/2011/03/precious-knowledge-pbs-documentary-of.html

Saturday, November 12

Tijuana Maquiladora Tour

Come to learn about Tijuana maquiladora workers' conditions and struggles!
More info: edavalos@sdccd.edu or

http://sdmaquila.org/

Thursday, December 1

2nd Binational Conference on Border Issues

Politics of Violence: Militarization, Incarceration and Globalization in the U.S.-Mexico Border Area

9 am - 3 pm, Room D 121A
http://conferenciaborder.blogspot.com/

San Diego Museum of Man

Kumeyaay: Native Californians-- Permanent exhibition

The Kumeyaay, or Diegueño (as they were later called by the Spanish), are the Native American people of present-day Southern California (San Diego and western Imperial Counties) and Northern Baja. For many generations before the arrival of the Spanish, they occupied the deserts, mountains, and coasts, developing sophisticated means of adapting to the diverse environments.

Maya: Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth

The huge Maya monuments displayed in the Rotunda Gallery are casts of the originals from Quirigua, a site in Guatemala. The casts were made for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition and have been on display since then, except during World War II, when the Navy turned the Museum into a hospital. Today these casts are studied by researchers who are tracing the history of the Maya through their hieroglyphic writing. The Museum’s casts are in better condition than the originals, which have suffered some weathering and erosion in the 95 years since the casts were made.

Free Tuesday: On the third Tuesday every month, FREE ADMISSION is offered to all San Diego County residents and active duty military and their families. Please bring your IDs that show county residence or military status.

http://www.museumofman.org/exhibits

Mexican Modern Painting
San Diego Museum of Art
Mexican art from the Andres Blaisan Collection. This is one of the premiere collections of 20th-century Mexican art. Assembled over the last 25 years, the collection normally resides at its permanent home at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. This exhibition features a selection of 80 paintings dated between 1907 and 1962 from this renowned collection as part of a traveling tour of the Blaisten Collection. The exhibited artists include well-known painters María Izquierdo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, and many others. In addition to these important painters, there are several painters with works in the exhibition that might be new to San Diego audiences such as Alfonso Michel, Federico Cantú, and Angel Zárraga.
http://www.sdmart.org/art/exhibit/mexican-modern-painting

Heritage of the Americas Museum

The Heritage of the Americas Museum, located on the campus of Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego, California, invites visitors of all ages to experience a journey through time. Five wings divide the building into areas of Natural History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Art, and Education. The museum is an educational and cultural center featuring the prehistoric and historic art, culture, and natural history of the Americas. Artifacts and art serve as a documentation of life and civilization throughout the ages. In the words of the Museum's founder, Bernard Lueck, "To be lost and never found is to be nothing." Through the discovery of these antiquities, mankind is educated and inspired. We invite you to venture into our wonderful world of discovery.

http://www.cuyamaca.edu/museum/

Jobs and Scholarships

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Dream Scholarships

You have the DREAM. We have the resources.

Tú tienes el DREAM y nosotros los recursos.

More info: Dream Scholarships

There are a a lot of scholarships listed here. Thatʼs great! It means thereʼs money available for YOU to go to college! So, now what?! Well, here are some easy steps to help you apply for the scholarships that you qualify for. Applying for scholarships takes time and some effort, but in the end, you might get some money for school. If you have questions, feel free to contact us from our homepage at www.scholarshipsaz.org.

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Chicano Studies Scholarship

2011-2012 Application

More information:

A Little History: List of scholarships

The Chicano Studies Department at City College was created in 1969. Throughout the years, we have seen students from all walks of life; all of them with different goals, but most of them maintaining two common denominators: motivation and low incomes. These students are the inspiration for this scholarship.

Important Information:

Number of Awards: 1

Amount of each award: $250.00

CRITERIA:

a) Must be a U.S. citizen or a resident alien

b) Must have completed 9 units in the Chicano Studies

c) Must enrolled full-time (12 units) at City College in Fall 2011 and Spring 2012

d) Must have a 2.8 GPA or higher

e) Essay: Must submit a two-page typed, double-spaced autobiography with emphasis on future goals

f) Must show involvement in Chicano/Latino activities on or off campus

SCHOLARSHIP WILL BE ADVERTISED: September 8, 2011 to December 8, 2011

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 8, 2011 at NOON – NO EXCEPTIONS

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Return completed application and all necessary materials to: Office of Student Affairs (D-106)

AWARD DATE: April 28, 2012, at the Annual Scholarship Awards Presentation.

Attendance is required for release of scholarship funds. Non-Attendance will, in most cases, result in forfeiture of scholarship award.SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

A Little History: List of scholarships

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What can I do…to fight unfair trade?

COFFEE WITH A JUSTICE AROMA
CAFE CON AROMA DE JUSTICIA

Join us to learn about fair trade options and promote a coffee free trade campaign

P R E S E N T A T I O N

By David Schmidt of
C.A.F.E.
(Creating Alternative and Fair Enterprise)

Oct 27, 11:00 am
Room A 213
San Diego City College

David Schmidt of C.A.F.E. is a great-grandchild of immigrants from Russia, and has been involved in urban and rural indigenous communities in Mexico over the last decade, and has witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of lopsided trade policies and neoliberal economics on the poorest communities in the world.

David will present a critical view of the current discussion of "immigration reform", in light of the unfair trade policies—pushed by the U.S. Government itself—which force people to migrate. Unless the US drastically increases the ability to legally immigrate to the US and drastically changes US trade policies like NAFTA which push massive migration, the fundamental problems facing immigrants will continue.

Sponsored by City C.A.F.E.

More information:
cafeontheborder@gmail.com

2011-06-01T10:21:00.000-07:00

Chicana/o Studies

Calendar of Action and Culture

Spring 2011

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Justicia para Anastasio Rojas, Friday May 20, 6:30 pm

IV FANDANGO FRONTERIZO

Sábado 21 de Mayo 2011, 11:00 -3:00 PM

More info:

http://fandangofronterizo.blogspot.com/

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January 29 Enero Zapatista Closing Event

This is the last event of Enero Zapatista. There will be Art, Food (veggie taquiza), Vendors, and Performances by Karim, Olmeca, Mujeres En Resitencia, The Fighting Cocks, Zaptopista, and more! Come join us for this celebration.

Centro Cultural de la Raza (2004 park blvd)
Event goes from 7pm-11pm
Suggested donation: $7

(No one will be turned away for lack of funds)

We will have vendors, performers, art and food!

Enero Zapatista 2011

2011 January Zapatista

Music, movies, presentations, health, and more!

Check the calendar

Enero Zapatista Website here

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Prisons: Inside the New America

by David Matlin

For ten years, David Matlin taught at a maximum-security prison, a daily confrontation with the nature of society, crime, and violence. Based on his experiences, this book examines the history of prisons in the United States and shows the terrible price a lethal combination of degradation, abuse, and corruption inflicts on inmates and society as a whole.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

11:15 – 12:30 p.m.

San Diego City College

Saville Theatre

This is a free event.

More info: Prisions

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February 17, 11:10 am
Revolt! Tunisia. Egypt. What Next?

San Diego City College
Room A 213

The movement in Egypt could completely change the balance of power in the Arab world. Domination of the region by imperial powers now hangs in the balance.

More info: Revolt

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February 23

LA ECONOMÍA BRASILEÑA DURANTE EL PERIÓDO DE LULA

The Center for Latin American Studies at SDSU cordially invites you to the presentation of

LA ECONOMÍA BRASILEÑA DURANTE EL PERIÓDO DE LULA

with Brazilian guest speaker

JAIR DO AMARAL FILHO, Ph.D.

Universidade Federal do Ceará-UFC

Talk will be in Spanish. Questions may be in Portuguese, Spanish, or English

ARTS AND LETTERS 379, SDSU

Wednesday, 2/23 ~ 12noon

BYOL (Bring your own lunch) ~ Refreshments will be provided

Phone: 619-594-1103

Map: https://sunspot.sdsu.edu/map/display.cgi?new_loc_id=1093

Space is limited. Please RSVP by Saturday, February 19

¡Gracias!

Feb 25, 6:30 pm

La Mission
A film about a Chicano father's inner struggle with his son's sexuality.

Friday February 25th at 6:30pm
Centro Cultural de la Raza
2004 Park Blvd.
Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101
http://www.centroculturaldelaraza.org/

Including free mixed music-cd giveaways, and an important discussion after the film, with food and refreshments vendors.

More info: La Mission

Feb 26

Festival de arte y cultura

Tejiendo Puentes y Esperanzas

26 febrero, 2011

12 a 10 pm

Vista, CA 92083

Más información: Arte y Cultura

Feb 28 (Ends)

PARODY AND PLUNDER
Paintings by Armando Romero

Mesa College Art Gallery
Room D101 and Gallery Courtyard
February 1 - 28, 2011

Hours: MTW 11-4 pm, Thursday 11 - 8 pm. Closed Fridays, weekends and school holidays
Reception: Thursday, Feb 10, 7 pm
Refreshments will be served.

Who decides what is art? Who selects the canon? The multi-layered comedic paintings of Armando Romero compel the viewer to question and ponder the deification of the art history canon. Born and raised in Mexico City in 1962, Armando Romero is still an artist resident of this cosmopolitan city.

More info: Mesa College Gallery

March 2, Wednesday

Nation Strike and Day of Action
To Defend Public Education Social Services

Location: 1313 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
San Diego City College
Time and Date:
Wednesday, March 2nd @ 4:30pm

More info: Day of Action

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Jan 20 to March 4, 2011

Globalization and War: The Aftermath
Works by Master Chicano Artist Malaquias Montoya

This powerful collection of work draws attention to the moral and political tragedies of war and the effects of displacement stimulated by globalization. For years Montoya has explored international topics including the death penalty, immigration, the Zapatista movement, Palestine and others.

Centro Cultural de la Raza

2004 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 235-6135
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sun 12-4pm
More info: Malaquias Montoya

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Mar 4, Friday

Labor and Community in Times of Crisis
2011 Labor Notes Troublemakers School

Corporate America has created the worst crisis for workers and communities in decades, and we’re paying the price for their greed. How do we unite and fight for a better future? Come share ideas and strategies with fellow unionists, activists, and community members

FRIDAY, MARCH 4th

Registration at 9 AM (continues all day)
Panels and workshops beginning at 9:30 AM until 8 PM
Lunch included; Reception that evening
San Diego City College,1313 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA, B103

More information: Labor and Community in Times of Crisis

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Mar 5, 9 am to 3 pm

Tijuana Maquiladora Tour

Come to learn about Tijuana workers' conditions and struggles!

Conoce las luchas y condiciones de trabajo de los y las trabajadoras de las maquilas

Registration:

US: $30 regular, $20 students

México: $20 regular, $10 estudiantes, algunas becas a estudiantes $5, gratis a trabajadoras/es

More information and registration: Maquiladora Tour

March 1st to March 11th

Palestine Awareness Week at San Diego State University

Students for Justice in Palestine at San Diego State University is a non-profit advocacy group committed to a core set of principles to which it expects its members to adhere. SJP believes that while the Palestinian people must ultimately be able to decide their future in Palestine, certain key principles grounded in international law, human rights and basic standards of justice are fundamental to a just resolution of the plight of the Palestinian people.

See the program here: Palestine Awareness Week

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March 9

You are invited you to join us in a campaign to fight for

Fair Trade coffee at City College!

Mar 9, Wednesday

9:35 to 11 am

San Diego City College

Room A 213

This campaign for Coffee with Justice will not stop until the day that not a single cup of unfairly traded “exploitation coffee” is served at City College.

More info: Cafe Campaign

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Mar 10, Thursday

San Diego School Board Rally to Fight Layoffs

When: Thursday, March 10 - 4:15 p.m.
Where: SDUSD Ed. Center - 4100 Normal St.

On March 10 the Board will vote on issuing 910 layoff notices. This number includes literally the entire state preschool program as well as 20 elementary schools worth of elementary teachers, two high schools worth of secondary teachers and a reduction of nursing, counseling and other support services to abysmal levels.

More info: San Diego Teachers

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March 11, 2011

Hermanos Unidos/Brothers United (HUBU) Conference

"Finding Common Ground Through Identity Development"

San Diego City College

Mar 11, 9 am - 2 pm

San Diego City College Saville Theater

Hermanos Unidos/Brothers United (HUBU) is committed to helping students succeed by informing, motivating, and preparing them for success both academically and personally. The HUBU mission is to increase faculty and student interaction; promote community, cultural, and gender identity development, and encourage peer-to-peer interaction between students.

More info: Look for HUBU in Facebook

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Mar 15, Tuesday

Killing Us Softly 4:
Advertising’s Image of Women

March 15, 9:40 a.m.
Saville Theatre

“Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images, they sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy.”—Jean Kilbourne

More info: Killing Us Softly 4

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Mar 16, Wednesday

Arizona: Save Ethnic Studies Tour

San Diego State University

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

5:00-7:00pm

COM 207

Sponsored by the California Faculty Association, San Diego Chapter and MEChA

The California Faculty Association, San Diego Chapter will host a delegation from the Arizona’s “Save Ethnic Studies” organization on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, from 5:00-7:00 p.m., as part of the “Save Ethnic Studies” California State University tour. The “Save Ethnic Studies” presentations will include an overview of the work that Critical Raza Educators in Tucson public schools are doing and describe the struggle these educators are waging against Arizona’s legislative attacks on academic freedom and cultural competence in Arizona’s education system. It will also provide a context for related issues that are currently occurring in California.

More info: Save Ethnic Studies

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Mar 17, Thursday

"An Unfinished Dream"

Film presented by Club Ideas

Room D-102

4PM

San Diego City College

"An Unfinished Dream" is a documentary that describes the Dream Act, the people involved with pushing for its acceptance into law, and AB-540 students who reside in the shadows until it comes to tuition and applying for financial aid.

More info: Unfinished Dream

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Mar 10-20

Latino Film Festival

The San Diego Latino Film Festival cordially invites you to attend the 18th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, March 10-20, 2011.

UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center

Off 163 Freeway and Friars Rd

We will showcase over 180 films from Latin America, Spain and the United States. The wide range of genres, cultural topics.

Please visit our website: http://www.sdlatinofilm.com/ for film synopses and to purchase your tickets online.

All students receive a $2 discount on tickets when they enter “stu” upon checkout. Students will also receive a $2 discount at the box office by showing their student ID.

Latino Film Festival

Recommended Films

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Mar 19, Saturday

End the War Protest!

War: The real threat to the economy
Saturday March 19th @ 11am @ City College;
Park and ‘A’ st. (in front of Mcdonalds)
march to city-wide demo @ 11:45
More info: End the War

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Mar 22, Tuesday

Justice for Women of Atenco, Mexico

12:30 pm
From City College Gorton Quad
To the Mexican Consulate in San Diego
1549 India Street

More info: Mujeres de Atenco

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Mar 25, Friday

US Labor Tour 2011

Come to learn about the struggle of workers in Mexico and Latin America

US Labor Tour 2011
Workers Struggle Beyond Borders: Uniting the Peoples of Nuestra America

Speakers:

Gilda Chacon Bravo, World Federation of Trade Unions- Americas Region- Cuba
Humberto Montes de Oca, Interior Secretary of the Mexican Electrical Workers (SME)- México
Jorge Cázares Torres, Section VIII of the National Steering Committee of Education Workers (CNTE)- México

Mar 25, Friday
6-9 pm
World Beat Center
2100 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
Balboa Park

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

San Diego City College
Room A 213

More info: US Labor Tour 2011

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Domingo 27 de marzo

Festival del Trueke en Tijuana

Pasaje Rodriguez
Avenida Revolucion
Entre Calle 3a y 4a

Tijuana

Domingo 27 de Marzo

11 am a 7 pm

El unico que no esta invitado es el Dinero!

Mas informacion: Trueke

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Mar 27 (Ends)

Explore Images of Mexico
Obsidian Mirror-Travels
Exhibition and Free Events at the Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA
Nov 26, 2010 to March 27, 2011

Obsidian Mirror-Travels features objects created over the past five centuries by explorers, archaeologists, and artists who have been inspired by Mexico's Pre-Columbian past.

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Thursday, March 31, 2011, 10 am
Cesar Chavez March
We Are One

10:00 a.m.

San Diego City College

Park Boulevard and “A” Street, San Diego, CA 92101

Please bring yourselves, your co-workers, your students, your friends, and your families to celebrate the life of CESAR CHAVEZ on Thursday, March 31stbeginning at 10 AM at City College (right in front of the school at the intersection of Park Blvd. and A Street). This is the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council’s 4th Annual Cesar Chavez Day March, and they’ve chosen to begin and end it at City College! We will have 100 t-shirts for AFT Local 1931’s members and their students to wear for the march, so come early and grab yours! If we run out, please make sure to wear your AFT BLUE to show your colors. For more information and to help spread the word, see the attached flyer, which is in both English and Spanish. Now is the time to show WE ARE ONE!

More info: Cesar Chavez March

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Thursday Mar 31, 7-9 pm

Immigrant Rights are Human Rights

Thursday Mar 31 , 7-9 pm

Room A 213

San Diego City College

What to do if you are detained?

How to be prepared in case of a detention?

What are your rights in check points?

What to do in vehicle and pedestrian stops?

What are your rights in a detention centers?

How to organize a net for post-detention support?

Sponsored by San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium,
City College Club IDEAS, and City College Club CAFE.

More information:
Enrique Davalos
edavalos@sdccd.edu
619-388-3634

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April 6, Wednesday

Presentation of the Book
Chicano San Diego

"Sí Se Puede": Chicana/o Activism in San Diego at Century's End

by the author

Isidro D. Ortiz

Profesor Chicana/o Studies
San Diego State University
April 6, Wednesday
9:35-11 am
SD City College
Room A 213

More information: Chicano San Diego

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Saturday April 9th

1st Annual IDEAS Conference

Saturday April 9th

10 am-2 pm

SD City College

Room D 121A

Evento en inglés y español

More info: IDEAS Conference

April 13, Wednesday
The Writing is on the Wall

We have partnered with EFA, Poetic Lip Movement, and the Socialist club to speak out about LGBT issues. We would love to see you there and participate. Write a poem, song, or lyric or just get something off the internet to share :-)

April 13, 12-1:30 pm

Curran Plaza

SD City College

More info: The writing on the wall

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April 17, Sunday

Hands Across California

In support of CA Community Colleges

Over one million people

Over 1,000 miles

One day - One line

Meet in the San Diego City College Gorton Quad at 1pm

There will be food vendors and musical entertainment

More info: Hands Across California

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April 23, Saturday

Chicano Park Celebration

Aztec Indigenous dance, coordinated by Toltecas en Aztlán, Grupo Folklórico Cuetlaxochitl de North County, Ballet Folklórico Mi Tierra de Bakersfield, Ballet Folklórico Aquetzalli de Lemon Grove, Ballet Folklórico Esperanza de Fallbrook, and danza Zapateado rebelde by Mujeres en Resistencia. Live bands performing this year include Agua Dulce, SAVOR, Rapper Big J from Indio, Band 2012 from Denver Colorado, Halo-N-Fern Tee, Back N Time from Riverside and Mariachi Imperial de San Diego. The event will open with a blessing by Tim Red Bird and the Red Warriors. The educational keynote speakers will be Maria Figueroa-Chacon, Gail Perez, Aremi Lopez, Consuelo Manriquez and presentation organizer Alberto Pulido. Other speakers, include representatives from the Brown Berets de Aztlán, Amigos Lowrider Car Club, Caliposas, Chicano Park Steering Committee and the Crusade for Justice.

In addition, there will be more than 350 classic low-rider cars on display (presented by Amigos Car Club) and children’s art workshop led by muralist Victor Ochoa with numerous volunteers. Food, arts and crafts vendors sell their specialties throughout Chicano Park.

Chicano Park is located off Interstate 5, Cesar Chavez Pkwy exit, under the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge.

More info: Chicano Park Day

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April 26, Tuesday
Café Without Borders

This event gives voice to Fair Trade Coffee producers from Mexico. We will listen to their stories and learn about the fair trade process while enjoying free coffee and dessert.

April 26, 6:30 pm
Forum B
University of San Diego

More info: Café without borders

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April 28, Thursday
Film Maquilapolis

A real life history of the maquiladora workers in Tijuana

April 28, 11:10 am
Room TBA
San Diego City College

More info: Maquilapolis

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April 29, Friday

Film El Traspatio A true story of the border town

Join us for the screening of "El Traspatio" a true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid 90's thousands of womyn have gone missing. There will be a dialogue and speakers.

Friday, April 29 • 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Voz Alta

1754 National Ave. San Diego,

Ca. 92113

More info: Colectivo Zapatista

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May 1st, Sunday
San Diego May Day
Rally and March
Students and Workers United
Support the struggle in Wisconsin
No more budget cuts!

More info: May Day San Diego

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8 de Mayo
No Más Sangre Tijuana
Tijuana se une

Protesta Nacional
8 de Mayo, 3 pm
Alto a la Guerra
Monumento a las dos culturas
Tijeras frente al Cecut (La Bola)

Más información: No más sangre Tijuana

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Ends May 15

Race: Are We So Different?

San Diego Museum of Man

February 11, 2011 - May 15, 2011

SDMoM is proud to kick off 2011 with a thought-provoking exhibit on the history, science, and experience of race, developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM). According to the AAA, Race: Are We So Different? “is the first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological, cultural, and historical points of view. Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States.”

More info: Race at the SD Museum Exhibit

National Exhibition: History of Race

SD Community College District Employment Opportunities Website

2011-01-05T23:06:00.000-08:00

Our Employment Services Website has been updated to a completely online system! Please click on the FAQs link on the left for details of the new system, and how it will affect you for all future applications.

Thank you for your interest in employment with the San Diego Community College District. We are always hopeful that talented and committed people will want to join the excellent faculty, administrators, and staff who make our District a wonderful place to work and learn.

This web page is designed to provide specific information about jobs, compensation, and the application procedures you should follow in pursuing employment.

Go to the Website: Employment opportunities

No Más Sangre Tijuana

2011-01-05T08:32:00.000-08:00

Tijuana se une

Protesta Nacional

8 de Mayo, 3 pm

Alto a la Guerra

Monumento a las dos culturas

Tijeras frente al Cecut (La Bola)

Más información: No más sangre Tijuana

Actualmente México vive un quebranto generalizado de la legalidad y del estado de derecho, ya que el Estado ha sido incapaz de garantizar la paz en el territorio nacional. En menos de cuatro años de gobierno de Calderón ya son alrededor de 40 mil muertes, muchas de ellas ejecuciones extrajudiciales realizadas por las policías y el ejército. El país se encuentra en llamas.

Desde el inicio, el principal propósito de la ofensiva de Calderón ha sido el blindaje de un régimen debilitado en contra del descontento social. Esto se ha tornado tanto más urgente dado el carácter rampante de la crisis económica, cientos de miles de trabajadores han perdido sus empleos en meses recientes, se ha perdido el poder adquisitivo, y en 3 años de gobierno la canasta básica ha aumentado más de un 93%.

En años recientes México ha experimentado crecientes tensiones sociales como resultado de un cuarto de siglo de privatizaciones masivas, destrucción de los servicios sociales, expulsión de los campesinos de sus tierras y otras manifestaciones de una ofensiva burguesa contra los obreros y oprimidos.

Para mantener a la clase obrera y a los sectores oprimidos a raya, el recurso final del gobierno consiste en utilizar cada vez más al ejército, haciendo que México parezca cada vez más y más a las seudodemocracias militarizadas como la de Colombia.

La llamada “guerra contra las drogas” no es más que un disfraz con el que se pretende ocultar la guerra contra los pobres y los trabajadores. Al igual que la “guerra contra el terrorismo”, es una guerra contra nosotros. En el fondo se trata de derechos democráticos.

Nos pronunciamos por la eliminación de todas las leyes que proscriben o regulan el consumo o comercio de drogas. Al estado no le incumbe en lo absoluto qué es lo que cada quien haga con su propio cuerpo. Además, el que las drogas fueran legales eliminaría instantáneamente las bases económicas de los cárteles del narcotráfico, tal como la eliminación de la Prohibición del consumo de alcohol en los años 30 en Estados Unidos acabó de manera fulminante con los contrabandista de ron y whisky. Para acabar con la violencia, las drogas deben legalizarse ahora.

No debemos acostumbrarnos a que la muerte, la desaparición y la tortura, así como la injerencia del gobierno criminal de los Estados Unidos en nuestro país sean parte de nuestra cotidianidad (llámese “operación rápido y furioso, aviones tripulados y no tripulados, así como agentes estadounidenses en nuestro territorio, etc.). No debemos aceptar que la muerte sea presentada por este mal gobierno como una cifra más. Son vidas que se pierden para siempre, dejando un terrible sufrimiento para cada una de sus familias y amigos.

Como escribió el periodista Pedro Miguel: “Dependerá de nosotros, deudos de una nación ensangrentada y desarticulada, que la náusea y la ira tomen un rumbo preciso de acción para detener el baño de sangre que padecemos por obra de los intereses imperiales y de sus socios y ejecutores locales”. ¡Es el momento de congregar el hartazgo nacional y decirle al gobierno y sus aliados que es hora de que se vayan todos! ¡Hay que echarlos, lo mismo que a todos los agentes estadounidenses!

Es necesario acabar de una vez por todas con el régimen capitalista en plena decadencia, que no promete a las masas más que desempleo, hambre y terror policiaco. La clave para librarnos de esta guerra se encuentra en la organización. Los invitamos a actuar.

Video con mensaje de Javier Sicilia

San Diego May Day 2011

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May 1st 2011
March and Rally

A labor and community-based mobilization effort to raise the consciousness of workers regarding labor rights, protections, and benefits. Inspired by the Chicago Haymarket Square Incident of 1866, and now, faced with the "ground zero" of labor, Wisconsin, the Haymarket Incident of the 21st century, San Diego May First seeks to educate, corroborate and support the movement for dignity and protection of the rights of workers. We are all Wisconsin!

Wisconsin Fight Back Video

Website May Day

2011-01-04T23:59:00.000-08:00

Chicano Park Day Celebration

2011-01-04T23:10:00.000-08:00

41st Annual Chicano Park Day Celebration

Saturday, April 23, 2011 - 10am to 5pm

Organized by the Chicano Park Steering Committee

CHICANO PARK DAY CELEBRATION

The 41st annual Chicano Park Day celebration will take place on Saturday, April 23, 2011, in historic Chicano Park, located in the Barrio Logan community, south of downtown San Diego, under the San Diego-Coronado bridge. This family event is always free and open to the public. The theme for the 41st anniversary celebration is "Education and Knowledge: Our Key to a Better Future"

Established by Chicano activists on April 22, 1970, Chicano Park has received international recognition as a major public art site for its commanding mural paintings of the past and present struggle of Mexican and Chicano history. Visitors to Chicano Park Day will experience traditional music and dance, including one of the most beautiful performances of Aztec Indigenous dance, coordinated by Toltecas en Aztlán. Other dance groups scheduled to perform include Grupo Folklórico Cuetlaxochitl de North County, Ballet Folklórico Mi Tierra de Bakersfield, Ballet Folklórico Aquetzalli de Lemon Grove, Ballet Folklórico Esperanza de Fallbrook, and danza Zapateado rebelde by Mujeres en Resistencia. Live bands performing this year include Agua Dulce, SAVOR, Rapper Big J from Indio, Band 2012 from Denver Colorado, Halo-N-Fern Tee, Back N Time from Riverside and Mariachi Imperial de San Diego. The event will open with a blessing by Tim Red Bird and the Red Warriors. The educational keynote speakers will be Maria Figueroa-Chacon, Gail Perez, Aremi Lopez, Consuelo Manriquez and presentation organizer Alberto Pulido. Other speakers, include representatives from the Brown Berets de Aztlán, Amigos Lowrider Car Club, Caliposas, Chicano Park Steering Committee and the Crusade for Justice.

Chicano Park is located off Interstate 5, Cesar Chavez Pkwy exit, under the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge.

With very limited parking (even less this year) we highly recommend that you take the trolley (Blue line to Barrio Logan or Orange line to 25th and Commercial) or bus (#11 or #901) to Chicano Park Day. For the safety of your pets and the public, please leave your dogs and other pets at home.

More info: Chicano Park

Film El Traspatio A true story of the border town

2011-01-04T23:06:00.000-08:00

Cine en el Barrio

Join us for the screening of "El Traspatio" a true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid 90's thousands of womyn have gone missing. There will be a dialogue and speakers.

Friday, April 29 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Voz Alta 1754 National Ave. San Diego, Ca. 92113

More info: Colectivo Zapatista facebook

Film Maquilapolis

2011-01-04T23:05:00.000-08:00

MAQUILAPOLIS

A real life history of the maquiladora workers in Tijuana

April 28, Thursday

11:10 am-12:45 pm

San Diego City College

Room A 213

With Q and A afterwards with Loudes Lujan, Yesenia Palomares and Magdalena Cerda from the Colectivo Chilpancingo for Environmental Justice, Tijuana

MAQUILAPOLIS

depicts globalization from the perspective of female Tijuana factory workers.

For information about the film visit: http://www.maquilapolis.com/

SPONSORED BY CAFE CITY COLLEGE AND
THE SAN DIEGO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COALITION

For more information contact:

Enrique Davalos, edavalos@sdccd.edu, (619) 388-3634

Cafe Without Borders

2011-01-04T23:03:00.000-08:00

April 26, Tuesday

6:30 pm

University of San Diego

Forum B

This event gives voice to Fair Trade Coffee producers from Mexico. We will listen to their stories and learn about the fair trade process while enjoying free coffee and dessert.

Sponsored by Students for Fair Trade and Sustainabily, CSL/CASA, University Ministry, CRS, CRS Mexico

For more information contact: Cara McMahon at cmcmahon@sandiego.edu

University of San Diego 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110

The speaker

Antonio Pérez Ruiz

Nació en Acteal, Chenalhó, Chiapas

El 6 de febrero de 1975

Campesino indígena tsotsil y coordinador del área productiva del café Socio Fundador de MayaVinic. En el año 2001, a 2 años de fundada la cooperativa, fue elegido Tesorero del Consejo de Administración, servicio que prestó gratuitamente durante dos años, según los usos y costumbres comunitarios indígena. de la Cooperativa. Terminando su período, en 2003, fue elegido encargado de la oficina de San Cristóbal de las Casas, prestando servicios en diferentes áreas. Al día de hoy es el responsable del Beneficio Seco del café y del Control del Café Pergamino y del café Oro. A la vez forma parte del equipo de ventas nacionales de café tostado.

Antonio Pérez Ruiz is an indigenous farmer and coordinator of coffee production for Maya Vinic Cooperative, in the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Maya Vinic cooperative is part of a Catholic pacifist community known as Las Abejas. In 2001, two years after the cooperative was founded, Antonio was selected as treasurer of the Administrative Board. In keeping with local customs and traditions, Antonio served as a volunteer. After two years of service, in 2003, Antionio was selected to work in the cooperatives offices in the town of San Cristobal. Today, Antonio’s responsibities include quality control related to the processing of green beans. Antonio also serves as part of the national sales team.

http://www.highergroundstrading.com/maya-vinic.html

Maya Vinic is a cooperative of nearly 700 small-scale coffee growers from the municipalities of Chenalhó, Pantelhó and Chalchihuitán, in the Highlands of Chiapas. Maya Vinic means "Mayan Man" in the Mayan Tzotzil language. The cooperative chose Maya Vinic for their name because they are motivated and inspired by the knowledge and wisdom of their Mayan ancestors who organized themselves and made decisions collectively. Keeping with their ancestral traditions, the members of Maya Vinic have chosen to utilize a portion of the entire coffee revenue to develop their business with all remaining earnings distributed to farmer families and their communities. Fair trade revenues is providing Maya Vinic with a much deserved income.

In Their Words...

Maya Vinic is dedicated to working cooperatively and in harmony with the earth. In their view, the mother earth "is what feeds us, sustains us and - when our time has come to an end on earth - will welcome us with a motherly love." For this reason, Maya Vinic is consciously practicing sustainable farming and processing techniques. Coffee trees are grown under shade trees to provide the necessary habitat for various species of native birds. The cooperative is certified organic by its local certifier, Certimex. The certification allows them to demand a higher price from local and international coffee buyers, thus ensuring better care for their families as well as mother earth.

A Courageous History

Maya Vinic, while struggling to survive the international coffee crisis, was also the unfortunate victims of a low-intensity war waged against the indigenous people of Chiapas. Las Abejas (The Bees), the civil society organization from which Maya Vinic was born, has been an outspoken proponent for indigenous rights since its inception in 1992. As a result, the people of Maya Vinic and Las Abejas have been continually harassed, intimidated, and ultimately murdered for their nonviolent and persistent demand for an end to oppression and eradication of Mayan indigenous people, which began over 500 years ago with the conquest of Latin America by the Spanish.

This harassment reached its most gruesome point on December 22nd, 1997 when paramilitary troops entered Acteal - home to the present day headquarters of Maya Vinic - and massacred 45 members of the community as they gathered in the local chapel to pray and fast for peace. To this day, many of the accused as well as their weapons remain at large and the people of Maya Vinic are still being victimized for their demand for indigenous rights.

Hand Across California

2011-01-04T17:13:00.000-08:00

Don’t forget this Sunday is Hand Across California April 17th

Please remind your students, club members, co-workers, and family to come out and support California Community College students

Meet in the San Diego City College Gorton Quad at 1pm

Please open the attachment for a complete breakdown of the event

There will be food vendors and musical entertainment

See you there :)

The Writing is on the Wall We Will Not Be Silent!

2011-01-04T13:12:00.000-08:00

April 13, 12-1:30 pm

Curran Plaza

City College

Join us Wednesday April the 13th from 12-1:30 at the San Diego City College Curran Plaza (in front of the art building) for we have partnered with EFA, Poetic Lip Movement, and the Socialist club to speak out about LGBT issues. We would love to see you there and participate. Write a poem, song, or lyric or just get something off the internet to share :-) We will have banners posted all around campus with positive LGBT messages and a table to remember those who have been victims of hate crimes or committed suicide due to bullying

Also check out our Facebook event and RSVP invite others as well.

1st Annual IDEAS Conference

2011-01-04T09:43:00.000-08:00

Saturday April 9th

10 am-2 pm

SD City College

Room D 121A

Evento en inglés y español

The 1st Annual IDEAS Conference at San Diego City College educates undocumented students in surrounding communities about the possibility of reaching higher education. Our message is one of hope for undocumented youth in education: the CA Dream Act presents the opportunity to alleviate our financial struggles in light of rising tuition costs. The California Dream Act would allow undocumented students that meet in-state tuition requirements to receive institutional or state financial aid. The conference is a way of maintaining momentum to empower students to pursue their dreams while advocating for change. This work is especially important since 65,000 undocumented high school students graduate every year. Unfortunately, only 5-10% of these students continue on to higher education although the passage of Assembly Bill 540 allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public institutions.We will also have a workshop where you can learn about immigration policies and your rights as individuals, workers or student and support groups within our community.

Sincerely,

I.D.E.A.S.

Individuals Dedicated to the Education of AB-540 Students

More info:

ideasclubsdcc@gmail.com

www.ideascity.com

Facebook Ideas Conference

(619) 813-2791

Dimensions Scholarship for Student Women

2011-01-04T08:09:00.000-08:00

See Application

$1,000.00 WOMEN’S SCHOLARSHIPS

ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012

Dimensions, a San Diego women’s organization is offering four scholarships for women for the 2011-2012 academic year. Women applying must meet the following criteria:

1. Must be attending either San Diego City College and have completed at least 30 credits.

2. Must be returning to school after an interruption in education, due to work, raising children, or other personal reasons.

3. Must be planning to continue education at either a four year college or attend professional training.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY APRIL 8, 2011

To download application go to:

City College Student Support and Scholarships

More info:

Carmen F. Ruffo
Scholarship Coordinator
San Diego City College
Phone: x3684
Fax: 3038

Immigrant Rights ARE Human Rights

2011-01-03T23:08:00.000-08:00

Thursday Mar 31 , 7-9 pm

Room A 213

San Diego City College

What to do if you are detained?

How to be prepared in case of a detention?

What are your rights in check points?

What to do in vehicle and pedestrian stops?

What are your rights in a detention centers?

How to organize a net for post-detention support?

Sponsored by San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium,
City College Club IDEAS, and City College Club CAFE.

More information:
Enrique Davalos
edavalos@sdccd.edu
619-388-3634

4th Annual Cesar Chavez Rally & March

2011-01-03T23:07:00.000-08:00

Thursday, March 31, 2011

10:00 a.m.

San Diego City College

Park Boulevard and “A” Street, San Diego, CA 92101

Festival del Trueke en Tijuana

2011-01-03T23:04:00.000-08:00

Pasaje Rodriguez

Avenida Revolucion

Entre Calle 3a y 4a

Tijuana

Domingo 27 de Marzo

11 am a 7 pm

El unico que no esta invitado es el Dinero!

Intercambio de:

Saberes (costura, tejido, reparacion de bicicletas, computadoras, clases de guitarra, etc)

Asesorias (legales, contables, de programas de disenho, arquitectura, etc.)

Oficios (reparador de calzado, sastre, afilador, herrero, etc)

Talleres (Baile, Comida Vegana, reparacion de bicicletas, artesanias, musica, escritura, etc)

Productos facturados por ti (ropa, accesorios, pinturas, grabados, alimentos organicos, remedios, fanzines, etc)

Libros usados, ropa, discos, verduras frescas, plantas,bicicletas, juguetes, comida ...

Usted agreguele lo que mas le gustaria intercambiar.

Prepara una lista de 10 que puedes intercambiar y otra de 10 que te gustaria recibir

US Labor Tour 2011

2011-01-03T23:02:00.000-08:00

Workers Struggle Beyond Borders: Uniting the Peoples of Nuestra America

Presentation by

Gilda Chacon Bravo, World Federation of Trade Unions- Americas Region- Cuba
Humberto Montes de Oca, Interior Secretary of the Mexican Electrical Workers (SME)- México
Jorge Cázares Torres, Section VIII of the National Steering Committee of Education Workers (CNTE)- México

Mar 25, Friday
6-9 pm
World Beat Center
2100 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
Balboa Park

Thursday Mar 24, 11:10 am-12:35 pm
San Diego City College
Room A 213

With a growing economic crisis, the U.S. empire is waging an even larger scale offensive on the world’s working poor to keep capitalism afloat, while eliminating many essential services making it more expensive and practically unaffordable to obtain healthcare, increasing cuts to education, and foreclosing on homes at an unprecedented rate. This offensive has even made it a crime to work in the U.S. if you’re an “undocumented” workers; while state legislatures, such as Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, are currently seeking to eliminate or weaken collective bargaining rights.

As a response to this offensive, workers from throughout the continent have decided to propose a collaborative project towards integration and solidarity beyond national borders, in search of worker’s unity that will ensure their class interest. This tour seeks to introduce the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) to workers in the United States, with the objective of seeking dialogue and presenting common areas of interest, this tour will invite workers and their organizations to the Encuentro Sindical de Nuestra América (ESNA) which will take place this year in Nicaragua. Similarly, this tour will inform worker’s how countries that today form part of the Bolivarian Alliance of Nuestra América (ALBA) have made investments in healthcare, education, food security, sports, cultural programs, while the United States cuts programs in these areas, while increasing its military spending. This tour invites workers in the US to become familiar with this continental process which seeks to build coordinated actions in our common defense of as a working class, throughout the continent and the world.

More information:

Union del Barrio Website

E-mail:

info@uniondelbarrio.org

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GIRA SINDICAL POR EE.UU. 2011

La Lucha Obrera No Tiene Fronteras: Uniendo los pueblos de Nuestra America

Ante una creciente crisis económica el imperio de EEUU ha profundizado una ofensiva de mayor escala contra los pobres y desposeídos del mundo con el fin de mantener a flote el sistema capitalista. Al mismo tiempo, el imperio está eliminando servicios básicos que fueron conquistados por la clase trabajadora en años anteriores, haciendo mas costoso y en ciertos casos imposible obtener acceso al cuidado de salud, recortando el presupuesta a la educación publica y permitiendo el desalojo de familias de sus viviendas por los grandes bancos. La ofensiva desatada contra los y las trabajadores por la clase capitalista ha convertido al derecho al trabajo en un crimen como es el caso para millones de trabajadores mexicanos y latinoamericanos en EEUU. Parte de esta ofensiva intenta disminuir el poder de los trabajadores y sus organizaciones en poder negociar contratos de manera colectiva como se ha demostrado en las legislaturas de Wisconsin, Indiana y Ohio.

Para enfrentar esta creciente crisis económica, los y las trabajadores de todo el continente han decidido buscar solución al proponer la colaboración, la integración y la solidaridad para encontrar la unidad necesaria que asegure sus intereses como clase. Esta gira propone presentar el trabajo de la Federación Sindical Mundial (FSM) y el esfuerzo para unir los y las trabajadores latinoamericanos y sus organizaciones en un espacio de trabajo común conocido como el Encuentro Sindical de Nuestra América (ESNA), que se celebrará próximamente en Nicaragua. Esta gira, invita a los y las trabajadores de los Estados Unidos, a conocer de este proceso. De igual forma, esta gira propone conocer cómo los países que hoy forman la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (ALBA) están enfrentando la crisis invirtiendo en programas sociales (educación, salud, la seguridad alimenticia, el deporte, cultura, etc.), mientras que el gobierno de EEUU solo invierte en guerra y reduce el presupuesto para programas de salud, educación, vivienda, etc. Conozca como puedes participar en la construcción de la acción en defensa de intereses común para los y las trabajadores del continente y el mundo.

Únase a este esfuerzo para dar la bienvenida a representantes internacionales que incluyen:

- Gilda Chacon Bravo, Federación Sindical Mundial-Región América (FSM)-Cuba

- Humberto Montes de Oca, Secretario Interior del Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME)- México

- Jorge Cázares Torres, Sección VIII del la Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE)- México

Organizado por:

US-Cuba Labor Exchange,

laborexchange@aol.com

International Action Center

iac-cai@iacenter.org

Unión del Barrio

info@uniondelbarrio.org

Patrocinado por:

Federación Sindical Mundial- Región América

Para mas informes, favor de escribir a los correos electronicos arriba.

Descargar volante, http://uniondelbarrio.org/esna/labortour_girasindical_2011.pdf

Más informes, http://uniondelbarrio.org/laverdad/2011/03/03/us-labor-tour-2011-gira-sindical-en-eeuu-2011/

¡UNIDOS VENCEREMOS!

Justice for Women of Atenco, Mexico

2011-01-03T22:44:00.000-08:00

Mar 22, 12:30 pm

From City College Gorton Quad

To the Mexican Consulate in San Diego

1549 India Street

In the case of one of the women, Bárbara Italia Méndez, police officers pulled her hair, beat her, and forced her into a state police vehicle with her shirt pulled over her head. She was made to lie on top of other detainees, and during the journey to the prison, police officers sexually assaulted her repeatedly. More than four years later, these brave survivors are still waiting for justice. None of the officials responsible for their abuse have been held accountable.

A gathering will be held in Gorton Quad at 12:30 on the 22nd of March, and we will march to the Mexican Consulate at 1549 India Street, where we will meet at 1pm. Through peaceful protest we will help these women receive the justice deserved. Now is the time to push for real justice and remind the federal government of Mexico that it has the ultimate responsibility to protect the human rights of its citizens, and not to let this impunity continue. Email us at amnestycity@gmail.com for more information.

When the women left their homes that May morning in 2006, they never imagined the horrific experience that lay ahead of them. During a police operation in response to protests by a local peasant organization in San Salvador Atenco, more than 45 women were arrested without explanation. Dozens of them were subjected to physical, psychological and sexual violence by the police officers who arrested them.

In the case of one of the women, Bárbara Italia Méndez, police officers pulled her hair, beat her, and forced her into a state police vehicle with her shirt pulled over her head. She was made to lie on top of other detainees, and during the journey to the prison, police officers sexually assaulted her repeatedly. Once at the "Santiaguito" prison near Toluca in Mexico State, the prison doctors who examined many of the women failed to document all their physical injuries or to gather evidence of the sexual abuse they had suffered.

More than four years later, these brave survivors are still waiting for justice. None of the officials responsible for their abuse have been held accountable.

Federal authorities had conducted an investigation that resulted in a list of 34 names of police officers who were suspected of being responsible for the abuses, but the federal authorities concluded that these individuals should be prosecuted at the state level. However, almost no progress has been made in nearly a year. Now is the time to push for real justice and remind the federal government of Mexico that it has the ultimate responsibility to protect the human rights of its citizens, and not to let this impunity continue.

More info: Amnesty International US

End the War Protest!

2011-01-03T21:00:00.000-08:00

END THE WARS PROTEST!

The real threat to the economy

Saturday March 19th @ 11am @ City College;

Park and ‘A’ st. (in front of Mcdonalds)

march to city-wide demo @ 11:45

Money for JOBS and EDUCATION

END the WAR- TAX the RICH

STOP the BUDGET CUTS

END the Crisis of Priorities!

IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE GLOBAL REVOLUTIONS AND UPRISINGS FROM CAIRO TO WISCONSIN

Wednesday March 16th LYRICAL LIBERATION HIP HOP SPEAK OUT @ NOON @ CURRAN PLAZA (in front of art building)

Thursday March 31st NATIONWIDE STUDENT STRIKE AND WALKOUTS in defense of public education. WALKOUT OF CLASS @ 11am. (Details forthcoming)

Get involved;

EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA) meets every Wednesday at 11am in the cafeteria

SOCIALIST CLUB meets every Thursday at 4pm in the cafeteria

Movie "An Unfinished Dream"

2011-01-03T17:22:00.000-08:00

Club I.D.E.A.S. Movie Night

"An Unfinished Dream"

Thursday

MARCH 17TH

Room D-102

4PM

San Diego City College

I.D.E.A.S.

Individuals Dedicated to the Educational Achievement of Students

CONTACT: ideasclubsdcc@gmail.com

Facebook: Ideas Sdcc

Arizona: Save Ethnic Studies Tour

2011-01-03T16:52:00.000-08:00

San Diego State University Event

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

5:00-7:00pm

COM 207

Sponsored by the California Faculty Association, San Diego Chapter & MEChA

More info: San Diego Ethnic Studies Consortium
Facebook DSES Consortium

Background

For the past four years, Tom Horne, the Superintendent of Arizona public schools and the Arizona State Legislature have relentlessly attacked the Tucson Unified School District’s (TUSD) Mexican American Studies Department (MASD). Through their repressive attitudes and regressive agenda, they have described Mexican American Studies classes as “…promoting the overthrow of the United States government…promoting resentment toward a race or class of people…designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group; and advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.” On May 11, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, signed into law AZ HB 2281, the Anti-Ethnic Studies Law, which in effect eliminated TUSD’s MASD on December 31, 2010. These attitudes also contribute to the development hostile environments that foment hate and the type of violence that resulted in the January 9, 2011 shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the deaths of several other civically engaged individuals in Tucson.

A major provision of AZ HB 2281 calls for the withholding of 10% of the State of Arizona’s monthly allotment to TUSD if MASD continues to teach Mexican/Chicano Studies classes. Eleven Critical Raza Educators have formed the “Save Ethnic Studies” campaign, which will serve collective plaintiffs (independent from the TUSD) in filing an injunction in Federal District Court to stop AZ HB 2281 from going into effect. As a consequence, Raza Educators are embarking on a national education and fundraising campaign to raise consciousness and resources for “Save Ethnic Studies Defense Fund” to defeat AZ HB 2281.

Implications

The implications for academia are numerous, including reducing academic freedom, cultural incompetence and institutional microaggression against people of Mexican descent, which could lay the foundation for the elimination of other diverse ethnic and multicultural studies classes, programs and departments throughout the U.S. These attitudes also contribute hostile environments that promote hate and violence.

“Save Ethnic Studies” presentations include:

Information about the work of Critical Raza Educators.

The Raza Studies educational Framework, which has been published several times in peer reviewed educational journals.

An overview of Critical Raza Educators’ comprehensive courses that are provided in high schools (during the 2010-2011 academic year MASD will teach 43 sections of Chicano Studies classes that will reach 1,336 students. These courses fulfill the high school graduation requirement, which includes American History/Chicano Perspectives, American Government/Social Justice Education Project, Senior English/Chicano Literature, Junior English/Chicano Literature, and Chicana/o Art) Middle schools (Chicano Studies classes at five sites), and elementary schools (Chicano Studies curriculum integration at 10 sites).

An update on Arizona’s legislative attacks.

CAFE City College

2011-01-03T15:59:00.000-08:00

CAFE: Creating Alternatives and Fair Enterprise

City College CAFÉ is a campus club that advocates for human rights, fair trade and alternative economies. We realize that policies of so called “free trade” increase exploitation, violence and pollution. Free trade policies also force millions to abandon home and migrate.

City College current activities:

(1) Fair Trade Coffee: all the coffee that is sold in our campus cafeterias MUST be certified fair trade coffee.

(2) Educate against maquiladoras: Tijuana has near 1,000 maquiladoras that ruin the people and the land. We support the organizations of Tijuana workers and communities that fight against the maquiladoras.

(3) Migration is a human right: We support the activities of IDEAS and other clubs and organizations defending the rights of undocumented workers and students.

CAFÉ meetings

Fridays 2:30-4 pm in room R 112

More information

Carolina Moreno:

PHEEM527@YAHOO.COM

(619) 755-4964

Websites

CAFÉ website

Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana website

Individuals Dedicated to the Educational Achievement of all Students (IDEAS)

2011-01-03T15:58:00.000-08:00

Individuals Dedicated to the Educational Achievement of all Students (IDEAS)

IDEAS is a student organization that seeks to bring support, rights and information to AB 540, undocumented, and financially challenged students and supporters at San Diego City College. We also seek to inform our community about the many opportunities that are available for AB 540 Students. We form an alliance of individuals working together, sharing our experience, struggles, and success, to fulfill our personal and educational goals as undocumented individuals and those who have financial needs.

¡La educación no debería tener barreras, La Educación es Para Todos!

Contact info:

Susana Sanchez
m.susy09@gmail.com

I.D.E.A.S.

CONTACT: ideasclubsdcc@gmail.com

Facebook: Ideas Sdcc

El Coyote News

2011-01-03T15:57:00.000-08:00

A monthly newsletter of the Chicano/a studies community at San Diego City College Crossing borders, news, analysis and culture

E mail: elcoyotecitycollege@gmail.com

Mixtec Cultural Exchange Program

2011-01-03T15:56:00.000-08:00

Interested in making a difference in the lives of Mixtec people?

Come and join us to teach Spanish/English while you make friends and learn about the Mixtec Culture!

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8 pm

Bayside Community Center

2202 Comstock St. San Diego, CA 92111

Contact:

Octavio Rodriguez, (626) 347-3187

E-mail: hola.octavio@gmail.com

Julieta Gonzalez (619) 244-4076

E-mail: juliet_jgt@yahoo.com

Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women

2011-01-03T15:51:00.000-08:00

City College World Cultures Presents the Film:

Killing Us Softly 4:

Advertising’s Image of Women

Tuesday, March 15, 9:40 a.m.

Saville Theatre

“Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images, they sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy.”—Jean Kilbourne

Filmmaker Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes—images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality.

Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.

This is a free event.

Centro Cultural de la Raza

2011-01-03T13:58:00.000-08:00

San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza was founded in 1970 as a Chicano Community Cultural Center and functions as an alternative space that encourages and facilitates artistic growth and cultural interchange in the San Diego/Tijuana region. The Centro provides classes and features a dynamic interdiscipinary schedule of events which includes exhibits, musical performances, installation art, readings, receptions, Azteca dance, Teatro Chican@, Ballet Folklorico, film screenings and other events.

Contact information:

Enrique de la Cruz

E mail: elcucui09@hotmail.com

Website Centro Cultural

San Diego School Board Rally to Fight Layoffs

2011-01-03T10:24:00.000-08:00

When: Thursday, March 10 - 4:15 p.m.

Where: SDUSD Ed. Center - 4100 Normal St.

Layoffs are always devastating to our schools and our membership. But

this year the threat of layoffs poses a greater threat to all of us, not

just our least senior members. A recent lawsuit in Los Angeles has

prohibited LAUSD from issuing layoffs based solely on seniority. Already

groups in San Diego have begun contemplating a similar suit, while

California State Senator Bob Huff has introduced legislation that would

render layoffs based on seniority illegal. If successful, either would

gut seniority protections out of our contract.

Fighting layoffs right now is not only the right thing to do to protect

our students and our jobs, it is crucial in order to protect our core

contractual union rights!

The way we can successfully fight back is to fight together. More than

400 teachers, nurses, counselors and librarians packed the Board meeting

on Feb. 22 for the first reading of the Particular Kinds of Services

(PKS) layoff list to urge the Board to seek real alternatives to laying

off front line educators. We need to triple those numbers for the March

10 vote. Wear red and bring a friend! If we are going to protect our

jobs, our classrooms, and our union contract, the Board must hear all of

our voices speaking together saying NO LAYOFFS.

TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER!

More info: http://www.sdea.net/

San Diego Latino Film Festival

2011-01-03T10:00:00.000-08:00

Mar 10-20

Latino Film Festival Website

The San Diego Latino Film Festival cordially invites you to attend the 18th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival, March 10-20, 2011.

UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center

Off 163 Freeway and Friars Rd

We will showcase over 180 films from Latin America, Spain and the United States. The wide range of genres, cultural topics.

Please visit our website: www.sdlatinofilm.com for film synopses and to purchase your tickets online.

All students receive a $2 discount on tickets when they enter “stu” upon checkout. Students will also receive a $2 discount at the box office by showing their student ID.

Latino Film Festival

Recommended Films

REVOLUCION

Dir. Fernando Aimbcke, Patricia Riggen, Amat Escalante, Carlos Reygadas, Mariana Chenillo, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Plá, Rodrigo García, Gael García Bernal, & Diego Luna

(2010, 105 min., Mexico, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

FRI 3/11 / 7:00 / S7

TUE 3/15 / 7:00 / S7

Co-produced by Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, “Revolución” brings together ten of the most accomplished Mexican film directors of our time to celebrate the Hundredth Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. This multi-faceted and impressionistic compilation of 10 short films explores that pivotal historical moment which still echoes in today’s society. Stars Academy Award nominee Adriana Barraza (“Babel”) and Ari Brickman (“5 días sin Nora”).

EL ATENTADO

Dir. Jorge Fons

(2010, 120 min., Mexico, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

THUR 3/10 / 7:00 / S7

FRI 3/18 / 4:00 / S7

SAT 3/20 / 11:00 / S7

“The Attempt Dossier” tells the story of Arnulfo Arroyo, a young terrorist who in 1897 attempts to assassinate Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. During a parade, Arroyo hurls himself angrily at Díaz, armed with a rock. This film tells the story of his subsequent arrest and imprisonment. Starring Daniel Gimenez Cacho (“Arrancame la Vida”).

CHICOGRANDE

Dir. Felipe Cazals

(2010, 95 min., Mexico, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

SAT 3/12 / 7:00 / S7

TUE 3/15 / 5:00 / S2

SAT 3/19 / 1:30 / S7

Chicogrande was a compadre and loyal supporter of Pancho Villa. Set during the Mexican revolution of 1916, this fierce western follows the exploits of Villa and Chicogrande as they flee into the mountains after the failed invasion of New Mexico, with the American troops hot on their heels. Directed by veteran

Mexican filmmaker Felipe Cazals (“Canoa”), this epic film was influenced by the likes of John Ford. Starring Damián Alcazár (“La ley de Herodes”).

CIUDAD EN ROJO

Dir. Rebeca Chávez

(2009, 100 min., Cuba, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

SAT 3/12 / 10:15 / S6

SUN 3/13 / 2:30 / S2

Based on the novel “Bertillón 166” by José Soler Puig, this film is set in the late 1950’s in Santiago de Cuba, one of the main supply cities of the rebels led by Fidel Castro. Rebeca Chavez’s debut depicts the insurrection, rebelliousness and also the solidarity in Santiago de Cuba during the clandestine struggle of the urban fighters against Batista's dictatorship.

EL EFECTO TEQUILA

Dir. Leon Serment

(2010, 111 min., Mexico, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

SUN 3/13 / 7:00 / S7

SAT 3/19 / 10:30 / S1

“The Tequila Effect” is a story of love and corruption set in the 1990’s. José Fierro is an ambitious young stock broker who yields to the temptation of an apparent Mexican economic boom, which will lead to national disaster. He becomes involved in dangerous and illicit deals that will have drastic consequences in his personal life, in this drama from Mexico. Starring Juan Carlos Colombo (“5 días sin Nora”) and Karla Souza (“From Prada to Nada”).

GO FOR IT!

Dir. Carmen Marron

(2010, 83 min., USA, English)

THUR 3/10 / 7:30 / S2

In this high-energy, coming-of-age tale, feisty college student Carmen spends her days working and her nights wowing underground club crowds with her dancing. But an opportunity to win admission to a prestigious dance school forces Carmen to choose between fulfilling her obligations to her family and urban community or moving on to a brighter but uncertain future.

HABANA EVA

Dir. Fina Torres

(2010, 106 min., Venezuela/Cuba, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

THUR 3/10 / 6:00 / S6

SAT 3/12 / 4:00 / S7

THUR 3/17 / 8:00 / S6

In a Havana shaken by Fidel's retirement, a young seamstress, trapped in a sweatshop job, dreams of designing beautiful dresses. Frustrated by her lazy, though adorable Cuban boyfriend, she meets a sophisticated ex-patriot Cuban-Venezuelan who dazzles her with a glamorous future. After many deceptions and surprises, Eva has to choose between the two men she loves. Hers is an unexpected decision... a humorous metaphor of Cuba's options for the future. Directed by Fina Torres, co-writer of “From Prada to Nada.”

HERMANO

Dir. Marcel Rasquin

(2010, 97 min., Venezuela, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

SUN 3/13 / 12:00 / S2

WED 3/16 / 9:30 / S7

SAT 3/19 / 8:30 / S1

This engrossing and exciting film follows two teenagers, raised together as brothers in a slum, strugglingto become professional soccer players. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a scout from a renowned professional club invites them to a tryout. But the hard reality of life in the slums and sudden tragedy threaten to derail their future. They will have to make the most important decision of their lives and choose what is more important: their family or their dreams? Venezuela’s official submission to the 2011 Academy Awards.

HIDALGO - LA HISTORIA JAMAS CONTADA

Dir. Antonio Serrano

(2010, 115 min., Mexico, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

FRI 3/11 / 9:30 / S7

WED 3/16 / 10:15 / S6

SAT 3/19 / 7:00 / S7

From his jail cell at Chihuahua's Military Hospital, Hidalgo begins to remember moments of his life, particularly his tenure as Parish Priest in the town of San Felipe Torres Mochas where he translated and produced the stage play "Tartuffe" by Moliere. During this time he fell in love with Josefa Quintana with whom he had three children and for whom he left the priesthood during a brief period in his life. Starring Ana de la Reguera (“El Traspatio”, “Cowboys & Aliens”) and Demian Bichir (“Che: Part One”, “Che: Part Two”).

Jose Marti: El Ojo del Canario

Dir. Fernando Perez

(2009, 120 min., Cuba, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

FRI 3/11 / 8:00 / S6

SAT 3/12 / 1:30 / S7

“On a daily basis I am in danger of giving my life for my country and for my duty ... I know how to die, but my beliefs will not die…” - José Martí. The formative years of Cuban national hero José Julián Martí Pérez are explored in Fernando Pérez's handsome, robust historical epic, set during the 1860s in colonial

Havana. Martí, The Eye of the Canary follows "El Apóstol" from the age of 9 to 17, as he is played with deep conviction by Raúl Pérez Ureta as he experiences firsthand the often brutal inequalities of Spanish colonial rule, and feels the fire of injustice rise within him. Through patient detail, Pérez charts the changing spiritual tide and dawning political consciousness within Martí. It is said that every Cuban has their own Martí; Perez's majestic, generous film is an invitation to both discover and rediscover.

LISANKA

Dir. Daniel Díaz Torres

(2010, 110 min., Cuba, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

FRI 3/11 / 4:00 / S7

MON 3/14 / 8:00 / S6

FRI 3/18 / 10:30 / S1

Set in a rural village on the eve of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis tells the story of Lisanka, a young Cuban girl who cannot choose between her two suitors, Sergio and Aurelio. To complicate matters further, she becomes involved with Volodia, a Russian poet from the nearby military base in this delightful Sputnik romantic comedy.

MARIMBAS DEL INFIERNO

Dir. Julio Hernández Cordón

(2010, 74 min., Guatemala, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

THU 3/17 / 10:30 / S1

FRI 3/18 / 10:15 / S6

SUN 3/20 / 6:30 / S1

Two unlikely characters join forces in this bittersweet comedy about an unlikely duo. Harassed by extortionists, Don Alfonso goes on the run taking a job playing the marimbas to an indifferent audience in one of Guatemala City’s grandest hotels. When he meets fellow outcast, “Black,” a doctor whom patients

fear because of his long hair and tattoos, they decide to combine their talents and create a new band called Marimbas From Hell. From the director of “Gasolina,” this bittersweet farce delivers biting social commentary on contemporary Guatemala.

LA MIRADA INVISIBLE

Dir. Diego Lerman

(2010, 97 min., Argentina, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

THUR 3/10 / 10:15 / S6

SAT 3/12 / 6:00 / S6

THU 3/17 / 9:30 / S7

Set during the inception of the military dictatorship in Argentina, “The Invisible Eye” paints an engrossing portrait of Maria Teresa, a repressed teacher at a Buenos Aires private school. Being somewhat naive and sheltered, she accepts without thought the rigid rules of the school. The head professors’ ideas about “the cancer of subversion” and a need for surveillance lead to an unhealthy obsession with a student, and a dramatic breakdown of order that parallels that of the country. “La Mirada Invisible” is co-presented by the Global Film Initiative and is part of the Global Lens 2011 film series. For more information, visit www.globalfilm.org.

NACO ES CHIDO

Dir. Sergio Arau

(2010, 90 min., Mexico, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

SAT 3/12 / 10:30 / S1

WED 3/16 / 4:00 / S7

FRI 3/18 / 8:00 / S6

When a long-lost record of the legendary Mexican band Botellita de Jerez, the creators of “Guaca Rock,” is found and becomes a huge success, the executives at Mexican Records hire a private detective to track down the missing band members in the hopes of putting on a reunion concert. He finds one of them in a psychiatric hospital and another among the homeless in the streets of L.A. Will these has-beens be able to play again? From the director of “A Day Without a Mexican”, and co-starring Yareli Arizmendi (“Like Water For Chocolate”).

RETRATOS EN UN MAR DE MENTIRAS

Dir. Carlos Gaviria

(2010, 91 min., Colombia, Spanish w/ English Subtitles)

MON 3/14 / 7:30 / S2

SUN 3/20 / 1:00 / S6

Winner of the 2010 Guadalajara Film Festival. After the death of their grandfather, Jairo and Marina decide to go back to recover the land from which she was displaced years ago. They travel from Bogotá to the coast in an old beat-up Renault 4. During the trip the story of her traumatic past begins to unfold. Upon reaching their hometown, their lives take a dramatic turn as they are kidnapped by paramilitaries in this moving portrait of Colombia’s civil war.

City College Fair Trade Coffee Campaign

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CAFE at City College

You are invited you to join us in a campaign to fight for

Fair Trade coffee at City College!

Mar 9, Wednesday

9:35 to 11 am

San Diego City College

Room A 213

Every day, hundreds of us purchase a cup of coffee at City College. This is fine—but we believe that the money we pay for that coffee should go to the hard-working farmers who grow and pick that coffee. We should not be drinking coffee that is polluted with the sweat and blood of exploited laborers in Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia and many other coffee-producing nations. When we buy coffee, our money should go to support worker-owned coops that allow workers and their families to live with dignity and justice. We want to see City College become a campus that only sells coffee with the taste of justice—coffee that is “Fair Trade certified”.

Most of the world’s coffee is controlled by three corporations: Phillip Morris, Nestlé and Sara Lee. These huge companies often pay coffee farmers miserable prices without guaranteeing a stable wage. Farming coffee becomes a gamble: the farmers who invest the most work in our coffee are paid a few pennies, while middlemen and corporate distributers keep the profits for themselves.

Considering all of the violence and injustice involved in the coffee trade, it’s no wonder that many coffee farmers leave their home towns and migrate to the city or to another country. For many, it’s just not possible to survive farming coffee.

But there is another way…

Fair Trade-certified coffee offers a real alternative to the unjust status quo of coffee. Coffee that bears the Fair Trade label was bought from worker-owned co-ops that make decisions democratically and negotiate a fair price for their product.

This campaign for Coffee with Justice will not stop until the day that not a single cup of unfairly traded “exploitation coffee” is served at City College.

We would like to ask you to join us in bringing this demand to the administration of City College. We hope you will join us.

More information:

Carolina Moreno: pheem527@yahoo.com

Cafeontheborder.blogspot.com

In solidarity,

City College C.A.F.E. (Creating Alternative and Fair Enterprise)

Palestine Awareness Week at San Diego State University

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March 1st to March 11th

March 1st and 2nd

Life Behind the Wall

SJP at SDSU will display a mock Apartheid Wall on Campanile Walkway at SDSU depicting the quality of life and the disparities on each side of the wall. Israel refers to this wall as their "Security Fence" which separates communities and annexes more Palestinian land.

The wall will be displayed from 8 AM until 5 PM on both days.

Tuesday, March 1st at 12 PM: TBA

Wednesday March 2nd at 12 PM:

Leena Barakat will present on her experiences in Palestine.

Wednesday, March 2nd

"Exposing AIPAC: Undoing the Zionist Myth"

Lecture by Miko Peled

@ 7 PM in Casa Real (Aztec Center)

Miko Peled, is an Israeli writer and activist living in the US. He is about to publish his book "The General's Son" a personal narrative of an Israeli discovering Palestine. Miko is the son of Israeli General Matti Peled, who was among Israeli top decision makers in the 1967 Six Day War. In 1997 Miko's 13 year old niece was killed in a suicide attack in Jerusalem urging Miko to learn more about the conflict and engage with his Palestinian neighbors to learn what can be done to stop the killing of innocent people. Miko, along with Palestinian Nader Elbanna is co founder of the Elbanna-Peled Foundation, dedicated to empowering groups who work for reconciliation efforts in Israel/Palestine.

Wednesday, March 9th

Talk w/ Huwaida Arraf

@ 7 PM in Casa Real (Aztec Center)

Huwaida Arraf is one of the co-founders of the International Solidarity Movement. She has a been a long time activist in the Occupied Territories maintaining her political stance of non-violent resistance. She was also the co-chair for Students for Justice in Palestine at the Washington School of Law. Arraf chairs the Free Gaza Movement, the organization behind the Gaza Freedom Flotillas- a series of groups of ships carrying activists and humanitarian aid that were organized to break Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. She was aboard the 2008 Free Gaza boats and the 2010 flotilla that was raided by Israeli commandos on May 31, 2010.

Friday, March 11th

Palestine Cultural Night

@ 6:30 PM in Backdoor (Aztec Center)

FREE Authentic Palestinian Food

Featuring:

Spoken Word

Oud performance

Tabla perfomance

Visual Art

Dabke

More info:

Lorain Rihan

lrihan515@googlemail.com

Facebook: SDSU Students for Justice in Palestine

Tijuana Maquiladora Tour

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TIJUANA MAQUILADORA TOUR

Come to learn about Tijuana workers' conditions and struggles!

Saturday, Mar. 5, 2011, 9 am to 3:30 pm

MAQUILADORAS EN TIJUANA: UN RECORRIDO

Conoce las luchas y condiciones de trabajo de los y las trabajadoras de las maquilas

Sábado 5 de Marzo, 2011, 9 am a 3:30 pm

http://www.sdmaquila.org/

English Version

Versión en español: ver abajo

TIJUANA MAQUILADORA TOUR

Come to learn about Tijuana workers' conditions and struggles!

Saturday, Mar. 5, 2011, 9 am to 3:30 pm

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Citizens returning from Mexico should present an U.S. passport. (Otherwise, they need an official ID, birth certificate, and waiting in line when returning to the U.S. for a period of time to be decided by the border gate officer.) For more information, see the State Dept. web site at: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html

All tour participants must read the US travel alert to Mexico and sign the tour waiver. Please see the alert below.

SCHEDULE (THERE MAY BE SLIGHT VARIATIONS FROM TOUR TO TOUR.)

9:00 am sharp: San Ysidro/Tijuana border-bus station. We will walk together to cross the border gate and travel to our locations in Tijuana using chartered buses for transportation.

9:45-10 am: The crosses at the border: Mora than 7,000 immigrants have died trying to cross the border.

10:30- 11:15 am: Otay Industrial Park: Sanyo, Metales y Derivados, other maquiladoras

NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won’t enter any factory.

11:30 – 12:00 pm: Community Ejido Chilpancingo-Rio Alamar: industrialization, health, environment

12:30- 1 pm: Lunch

1-2:30 pm: Maquiladora workers and Indigenous immigrants: NAFTA and fair trade, immigration and exploitation, industrialization and labor health, activism and social change

NOTE: Working women in Tijuana are organizing artisan cooperatives and promoting an alternative economy. They will bring their handcrafts to the tour. To learn in advance about these cooperatives, please go to http://www.ollincallicm.blogspot.com/

2:30-3:00 pm: Return to the bus station

DONATIONS

Reservations for the tours can be made online at http://sdmaquila.org.

US: $30 regular, $20 students

Donations cover the bus, lunch, and a donation to the workers’ organizations.

If you prefer to use the postal system, or for more information, please contact:

Herb Shore: sdmaquila@cox.net,

(619) 287-5535

Sponsored by Colectivo Ollincalli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo for Environmental Justice, San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network, and Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras

Version en Español

MAQUILADORAS EN TIJUANA: UN RECORRIDO

Conoce las luchas y condiciones de trabajo de los y las trabajadoras de las maquilas

Sábado 5 de Marzo, 2011, 9 am a 3:30 pm

Nota importante:

Ciudadanos de EUA necesitan pasaporte para regresar a EUA.

Ciudadanos de EUA tienen que leer la alerta del Departamento de Estado y firmar el waiver. Please see the alert below.

AGENDA DEL TOUR (PUEDE VARIAR UN POCO DE UNO A OTRO TOUR)

9:00 am en punto en la estación del trolley de San Ysidro o la estación de taxis de la entrada a Tijuana desde San Ysidro. Desde la estación de trolley cruzaremos la frontera a pie para abordar un autobús particular que nos transportará en Tijuana

9:45-10 am: Visita a las cruces en la frontera: Más de 7,00 emigrantes han muerto tratando de cruzar la frontera.

10:30- 11:15 am: Parque Industrial de Otay: Sanyo, Metales y Derivados, otras maquiladoras

NOTA: Visitaremos una zona industrial de Tijuana pero no entraremos a ninguna fábrica.

11:30 – 12:00 pm: Comunidad Ejido Chilpancingo-Rio Alamar: industrialización, salud, medio ambiente

12:30- 1 pm: Lunch

1-2:30 pm: Trabajadoras y trabajadores de la maquila e indígenas inmigrantes: TLC y libre comercio, emigración y explotación, industrialización y salud laboral, activismo y cambio social

NOTE: Trabajadoras de Tijuana están organizando cooperativas artesanales y promoviendo una economía alternativa. Ellas traerán su producción al tour. Para saber de ellas, favor de visitar la página: http://www.ollincallicm.blogspot.com/

2:30-3:00 pm: Regreso a la terminal del autobús en la frontera

DONACIONES

Para reservar, favor de escribir a maquilatijuanasandiego@earthlink.net. O si prefiere, puede reservar en la página web (en inglés) at http://sdmaquila.org.

USA: $30 regular, $20 students

México: $20 regular, $10 estudiantes, algunas becas a estudiantes $5, gratis a trabajadoras/es

Las donaciones cubren el autobús, almuerzo y una donación a las organizaciones de trabajadoras

Invitan: Colectivo Ollincalli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo por Justicia Ambiental, Red de San Diego en Solidaridad con los y las Trabajadoras de las Maquiladoras, y la Coalición Pro-Justicia en las Maquiladoras

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TRAVEL WARNING U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Bureau of Consular Affairs

Mexico, Sep 10, 2010 http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_4755.html

The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to and living in Mexico about the security situation in Mexico…

Millions of U.S. citizens safely visit Mexico each year. This includes tens of thousands who cross the border every day for study, tourism or business and at least one million U.S. citizens who live in Mexico. The Mexican government makes a considerable effort to protect U.S. citizens and other visitors to major tourist destinations. Resort areas and tourist destinations in Mexico do not see the levels of drug-related violence and crime reported in the border region and in areas along major drug trafficking routes. Nevertheless, crime and violence are serious problems. While most victims of violence are Mexican citizens associated with criminal activity, the security situation poses serious risks for U.S. citizens as well.

It is imperative that U.S. citizens understand the risks involved in travel to Mexico, how best to avoid dangerous situations, and who to contact if one becomes a victim of crime or violence. Common-sense precautions such as visiting only legitimate business and tourist areas during daylight hours, and avoiding areas where criminal activity might occur, can help ensure that travel to Mexico is safe and enjoyable. U.S. citizen victims of crime in Mexico are urged to contact the consular section of the nearest U.S. Consulate or Embassy for advice and assistance. Contact information is provided at the end of this message.

General Conditions: Since 2006, the Mexican government has engaged in an extensive effort to combat drug-trafficking organizations (DTOs). Mexican DTOs, meanwhile, have been engaged in a vicious struggle with each other for control of trafficking routes. In order to combat violence, the government of Mexico has deployed military troops throughout the country. U.S. citizens should expect to encounter military and other law enforcement checkpoints when traveling in Mexico and are urged to cooperate fully. DTOs have erected unauthorized checkpoints, and killed motorists who have not stopped at them. In confrontations with the Mexican army and police, DTOs have employed automatic weapons and grenades. In some cases, assailants have worn full or partial police or military uniforms and have used vehicles that resemble police vehicles. According to published reports, 22,700 people have been killed in narcotics-related violence since 2006. The great majority of those killed have been members of DTOs. However, innocent bystanders have been killed in shootouts between DTOs and Mexican law enforcement or between rival DTOs.

Recent violent attacks and persistent security concerns have prompted the U.S. Embassy to urge U.S. citizens to defer unnecessary travel to Michoacán and Tamaulipas, to parts of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, and Coahuila… and to advise U.S. citizens residing or traveling in those areas to exercise extreme caution.

Violence Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: Much of the country’s narcotics-related violence has occurred in the northern border region. For example, since 2006, three times as many people have been murdered in Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua, across from El Paso, Texas, than in any other city in Mexico. More than half of all Americans killed in Mexico in FY 2009 whose deaths were reported to the U.S. Embassy were killed in the border cities of Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana.

Since 2006, large firefights have taken place in towns and cities in many parts of Mexico, often in broad daylight on streets and other public venues. Such firefights have occurred mostly in northern Mexico, including Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Chihuahua City, Nogales, Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, Reynosa, Matamoros and Monterrey. During some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area.

The situation in northern Mexico remains fluid; the location and timing of future armed engagements cannot be predicted. U.S. citizens are urged to exercise extreme caution when traveling throughout the region, particularly in those areas specifically mentioned in this Travel Warning…

In recent months, DTOs have used stolen trucks to block major highways and thus prevent the military from responding to criminal activity, most notably in the area around Monterrey. Also in Monterrey, DTOs have kidnapped guests out of reputable hotels in the downtown area, blocking off adjoining streets to prevent law enforcement response. DTOs have also attacked Mexican government facilities such as military barracks and a customs and immigration post.

U.S. citizens should defer non-essential travel to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua…

The Consular agency in Reynosa, Tamaulipas was closed temporarily in February 2010 in response to firefights between police and DTOs and between DTOs. In April 2010, a grenade thrown into the Consulate compound at 11:00 PM caused damage to the U.S. Consulate General in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The Consulate General in Nuevo Laredo and the Consular Agency in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, were closed for one day as a result. The Consulate General in Nuevo Laredo prohibits employees from entering the entertainment zone in Nuevo Laredo known as “Boys Town” because of concerns about violent crime in that area.

Between 2006 and 2009, the number of narcotics-related murders in the state of Durango increased ten-fold…

Travelers on the highways between Monterrey and the United States (notably through Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros) have been targeted for robbery that has resulted in violence and have also been caught in incidents of gunfire between criminals and Mexican law enforcement. Criminals have followed and harassed U.S. citizens traveling in their vehicles in border areas including Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, and Tijuana…

The situation in the state of Chihuahua, specifically Ciudad Juarez, is of special concern…

Safety Recommendations: U.S. citizens who believe they are being targeted for kidnapping or other crimes should notify Mexican law enforcement officials and the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City or the nearest U.S. consulate as soon as possible. Any U.S. visitor who suspects they are a target should consider returning to the United States immediately. U.S. citizens should be aware that many cases of violent crime are never resolved by Mexican law enforcement, and the U.S. government has no authority to investigate crimes committed in Mexico.

U.S. citizens should make every attempt to travel on main roads during daylight hours, particularly the toll ("cuota") roads, which generally are more secure…

U.S. citizen visitors are encouraged to stay in the well-known tourist areas. Travelers should leave their itinerary with a friend or family member not traveling with them, avoid traveling alone, and check with their cellular provider prior to departure to confirm that their cell phone is capable of roaming on GSM or 3G international networks…

Do not display expensive-looking jewelry, large amounts of money, or other valuable items… U.S. citizens should be alert for credit card fraud, especially outside major commercial establishments.

U.S. citizens should be alert to pickpockets and general street crime throughout Mexico, but especially in large cities. Between FY 2006 and FY 2009 the number of U.S. passports reported stolen in Mexico rose from 184 to 288.

Demonstrations and Large Public Gatherings: Demonstrations occur frequently throughout Mexico and usually are peaceful. However, even demonstrations intended to be peaceful can turn confrontational and escalate to violence unexpectedly… During demonstrations or law enforcement operations, U.S. citizens are advised to remain in their homes or hotels, avoid large crowds, and avoid the downtown and surrounding areas.

Demonstrators in Mexico may block traffic on roads, including major arteries, or take control of toll-booths on highways. U.S. citizens should avoid confrontations in such situations…

The Mexican Constitution prohibits political activities by foreigners, and such actions may result in detention and/or deportation. U.S. citizens are therefore advised to avoid participating in demonstrations or other activities that might be deemed political by Mexican authorities. As is always the case in any large gathering, U.S. citizens should remain alert to their surroundings.

Further Information: U.S. citizens are urged to monitor local media for information about fast-breaking situations that could affect their security… For the latest security information, U.S. citizens traveling abroad should regularly monitor the Department's internet web site at http://travel.state.gov/ where the current Worldwide Caution, Travel Warnings, and Travel Alerts can be found. Up-to-date information on security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll free in the United States and Canada, or, for callers from Mexico, a regular toll line at 001-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays)… For any emergencies involving U.S. citizens in Mexico, please contact the U.S. Embassy or the closest U.S. Consulate… The U.S. Embassy is located in Mexico City… telephone from the United States: 011-52-55-5080-2000; telephone within Mexico 01-55-5080-2000; e-mail: ACSMexicoCity@state.gov

Internet: http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/.

Tijuana Consulate: Tapachula 96, telephone: 011-52 (664) 622-7400. http://tijuana.usconsulate.gov/service.html.

WAIVER OF LIABILITY / ASSUMPTION OF RISK

I have read and understood the current Travel Alert for Mexico, posted by the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Bureau of Consular Affairs. I have voluntarily joined a Maquiladora Tour to Tijuana, Mexico. I understand that there are great differences between this country and my own. These differences include climate, living conditions, diet, water quality, transportation, medical care, and physical safety. I also understand that health care facilities in Mexico are minimal and that access to all types of health care, including for emergencies, may be difficult. I understand that I will not be able to expect the same type of health care as I would receive in my own country. I understand that the San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network (SDMWSN) and other individuals and organizations that sponsor, organize and promote this maquiladora tour are not responsible for my health care or coverage, either during the tour or afterwards. Furthermore, I realize that there are no guarantees against personal injury, robbery, or death while part of this Maquiladora Tour.

I understand that there are specific legal requirements for travel to Mexico, and illegal activity could result in grave legal consequences for myself, the SDMWSN, and individuals and organizations that sponsor, organize and promote this maquiladora tour. For this reason, I agree to abide by Mexican law while I am in Mexico. I understand that the Maquiladora Tour ends with the final planned activity of the tour followed by the immediate return across the border, and after this time SDMWSN and individuals and organizations that sponsor, organize and promote this maquiladora tour are discharged and held harmless in any participant’s decision which deviates from this process after the tour is completed in Mexico.

With this understanding, and in consideration for my participation in the Maquiladora Tour, I completely accept and assume all responsibility for any and all risks of damage, sickness, or personal injury which may occur during, or resulting from my participation in the tour, including, but not limited to, those risks described above. In signing this document I expressly release, discharge, and hold harmless the SDMWSN and individuals and organizations that sponsor, organize and promote this maquiladora tour to the maximum extent permitted by law in any state, territory, district, or country.

I have read and understand the foregoing and sign it voluntarily. I am of sound mind and act of my own free will and without any coercion or duress in signing this WAIVER OF LIABILITY AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK.

Name:

Signature:

Date: