Panel Discussion on Diversity: March 14
Honoring Academic Legacies of Diversity at San Diego Mesa College and Beyond: Equity and Valuing Critical Contributions of Chicana/o Studies and Black Studies Departments
Friday, March 14 at 9AM-12PM
Room H-117/118 (next to Cafeteria)
@ San Diego Mesa College
@ San Diego Mesa College
Recognize the over 40 year histories of each of these departments on the San Diego Mesa College campus; educate the campus and community about issues related to understanding and valuing the critical contributions of Chicana/o Studies and Black Studies Departments in Higher Education; and highlight local, state and national legislative educational policies that have and will impact the future success of all students and with a focus on students of color and first generation students.
Confirmed panelists:
Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D.
Assemblymember, 79th Assembly District
Alexandro José Gradilla, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Dual Chair
Chicana and Chicano Studies Department
African American Studies Department
California State University, Fullerton
Beatriz Tapia, M.A.
Associate Professor
Chicana and Chicano Studies Department
East Los Angeles College
Valerie Cuevas, M.A.
Director of External Relations,
The Education Trust—West
Starla Lewis
Professor
Black Studies Department
San Diego Mesa College
Water, Sovereignty, & Social Justice: March 11
The Bread and Roses Center of the Department of Women’s Studies, the Department of American Indian Studies, the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, and San Diego State University’s Common Experience present:
Water, Sovereignty, and Social Justice:
Honoring International Women's Day
March 11, 2014 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Theatre of SDSU's Aztec Student Union
Please join us for a panel with Native water rights lawyer Susan Williams (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) as the keynote, a partial screening of a film highlighting women's involvement in the Peace and Dignity Journey 2012 by Sharah Nieto and Adriana Blanco, and local activist Elizabeth Pantoja who participated in the Midwest route of this indigenous solidarity run to/from Alaska and Tierra del Fuego dedicated to Water.
There is a long history of working to address Indigenous tribal rights to water: protecting allwaters that support physical and cultural continuation; sustaining traditional practices, resources and access; understanding and respecting tribal ecological knowledge; applying tribal knowledge and native science to ensure successful water and land stewardship; and supporting habitat and ecological health. Indeed, in 2012, the Peace and Dignity Journey from both tips of the northern and southern continent (Chickaloon, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) to Guatemala was reverentially dedicated to Water and raising consciousness about our social responsibility to protect it as a resource for everyone. As leaders, lawyers, teachers, healers, mothers, and cultural carriers, women are often at the forefront of these discussions and movements.
Please join us for a panel with Susan Williams (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) who will give the keynote, titled Protection of Federal Indian Reserved Water Rights from an Indian Woman Lawyer's Perspective,a and local activist Elizabeth Pantoja who participated in the Peace and Dignity Journey dedicated to Water in 2012. We will also partially screen a film highlighting women's involvement in this Indigenous solidarity run produced by Sharah Nieto.
INTRODUCING THE PARTICIPANTS:
Coming Out of the Shadows at the Border!: March 10
Where: Otay Port of Entry
When: Monday March 10th, 2014
Time: 10 am Pacific
Come join us on Monday, March 10th, 2014 in San Diego, California as we share testimonies and stories of families who have been torn apart by deportation.
At the event we'll have undocumented families, at the border wall, sharing stories and offering a voice to the debate for immigration reform.
We believe all of the 2 million men, women, and children who have been deported since President Obama took office deserve to come home. Last year, the Bring Them Home project organized communities across the county, and dozens of Dreamers were able to return to their families in the U.S. In March, 250 more people will cross the border hoping to reunite with their families.
More info: Facebook
Friendship Park: Mar 06
Thursday, Mar 06, 11:10 am
Room MS 462
Presentation on the Tijuana-San Diego border fence, the Friendship Park
and the construction of a binational community
and the construction of a binational community
With Daniel Watman
Fight for 15 Rally: March 6
Fight for 15
March 6, 2014, 2:00PM
McDonalds located across the street from San Diego City College
1260 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
Rally to bring awareness and support better wages for minimum wage
workers across San Diego.
workers across San Diego.
For too long franchise fast food industries in America have generated billions of dollars in revenue year after year meanwhile, their employees can barely afford to live. The Fight for 15 is not asking to make people millionaires but simply asks for what is fair. Don’t sit on the sidelines on this issue, now is the time to fight for economic equality not just in San Diego but across the United States of America and make Washington listen.
Protesting Migra Brutality: March 1
March 1, 2014
2 pm
International Gate San Ysidro-Tijuana
Map, directions and more info: Facebook: We Demand
WE DEMAND THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF ANASTASIO HERNANDEZ ROJAS BE PROSECUTED FOR MURDER AND THAT JUSTICE BE SERVED!
In the last 2 months 5 more people have died while in custody by the border patrol. To date there has been no justice for those who have been murdered by border patrol agents.
WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE WITHOUT PUNISHMENT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW!! YA BASTA DE IMPUNIDAD!!
EXIGIMOS JUSTICIA!! NI UNA MUERTE MAS!!
In the last year more than 10 people have been killed by a ICE officer.
Protest against ICE-Migra police brutality
Latino Film Festival, an Introduction: Feb 25
Introduction to the San Diego Latino Film Festival
L Ethan van Thillo, Festival Executive Director and Founder
San DiegoTuesday, February 25
9:35 – 11:00
Room V-101
Border Patrol Statistics
Border Patrol Statistics
Adam Isacson, WOLA, Jan 30, 2014
This week, the U.S. Border Patrol released statistics about its activities in 2013, including its apprehensions of migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. This allowed WOLA to update its own monitoring of trends along the border, like those illustrated in the graphics below. Click on each to expand its size.
http://www.wola.org/commentary/what_new_border_patrol_statistics_tell_us_about_changing_migration_from_latin_america
Tlatelolco, Verano del 68: Nov 29 - Dec 5
Tlatelolco, Verano del ‘68
(México, 103 min., 2013, Spanish w/ English
subtitles)
Two young individuals from different
walks of life fall in love during their involvement in a student movement
against Mexico’s authoritarian rule in 1968.
Director:
Carlos Bolado
Digital Gym Cinema
Nov 29 to Dec 5 6:00 p.m.
2921 El Cajon Blvd.North Park, 92104
Synopsis: An across-the-tracks love
story, well-off girl and a working class boy, set against Mexico’s Tiananmen:
the 1968 student protests and strikes that climaxed in the Tlatelolco Square
massacre of students by security forces. The number of deaths was covered up by
Mexico’s PRI ruling government, which hosted the Olympic Games 10 days later.
About the Fence: Oct 10-Nov 6
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery
For up to minute information and images of our exhibits
and events
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Acerca de la
Cerca/About the Fence
An exhibition of photographic works and installations by Tijuana and San Diego artists: Carmela Castrejon, Maria Teresa Fernandez and Paul Turounet. Video by Ana Teresa Fernandez.
Exhibit runs October 10 - November 6, 2013
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, October 30, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
The border fence separates the U.S.
and Mexico, San Diego and Tijuana but it is also acts as a site of
interventions and interactions. In this exhibition artists from both cities
examine the human and social impact of this impenetrable barrier.
Paul Turounet uses sections of fence salvaged from Border State Park in San Diego to build a corrugated steel wall 10 by 40 feet in the gallery space. Attached to this framework are images from his project Estamos Buscando – We’re Looking For (2002-09). On his motorcycle and by foot, Turounet traveled the migrant trails to capture intimate portraits of the crossers. He printed the sepia toned images on aluminum photographic plates to resemble the old “retablos” from Mexican Catholic folk tradition. The migrants received a copy of their portrait, a record and memento of their unusual encounter.
Maria Teresa Fernandez observes the fence from the Tijuana side and for several years has been interested in this physical barrier as a canvas where artistic expression, religious and political beliefs are expressed. She documents murals painted for the Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos; crude wooden crosses to remember the men, women and children that die attempting to cross; and political slogans, calls for protest. LA Times critic David Pagel says: "(Her) tightly framed pictures bring visitors nose to nose with the fence and arm’s length from the often poignant mementos left beside it by people whose lives it has affected."
Fernandez subject matter inspired her daughter, Ana Teresa Fernandez, to create a performance and installation titled Erasing the Border/Borrando la Frontera. In the video documentation of this piece we see Ana Teresa dressed in a tight little black cocktail dress applying blue paint to the steel posts of the border fence where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The artist, here, actively engaged in a visual process of erasure of that barrier.
Carmela Castrejon has been exploring border issues in her individual work and also as part of binational artist collectives such as the Border Art Workshop/Taller the Arte Fronterizo and Las Comadres. She also participated in several of the IN-SITE installations. Castrejon will present assemblages that combine photographic images, cutouts and recycled objects. The hands of an indigenous woman weaving as a cutout attached to an old wooden picture frame, the craft and tradition that connect us to the larger social and historical narrative of a border region that is at once American and Mexican, old and modern, promising and dire.
Paul Turounet uses sections of fence salvaged from Border State Park in San Diego to build a corrugated steel wall 10 by 40 feet in the gallery space. Attached to this framework are images from his project Estamos Buscando – We’re Looking For (2002-09). On his motorcycle and by foot, Turounet traveled the migrant trails to capture intimate portraits of the crossers. He printed the sepia toned images on aluminum photographic plates to resemble the old “retablos” from Mexican Catholic folk tradition. The migrants received a copy of their portrait, a record and memento of their unusual encounter.
Maria Teresa Fernandez observes the fence from the Tijuana side and for several years has been interested in this physical barrier as a canvas where artistic expression, religious and political beliefs are expressed. She documents murals painted for the Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos; crude wooden crosses to remember the men, women and children that die attempting to cross; and political slogans, calls for protest. LA Times critic David Pagel says: "(Her) tightly framed pictures bring visitors nose to nose with the fence and arm’s length from the often poignant mementos left beside it by people whose lives it has affected."
Fernandez subject matter inspired her daughter, Ana Teresa Fernandez, to create a performance and installation titled Erasing the Border/Borrando la Frontera. In the video documentation of this piece we see Ana Teresa dressed in a tight little black cocktail dress applying blue paint to the steel posts of the border fence where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The artist, here, actively engaged in a visual process of erasure of that barrier.
Carmela Castrejon has been exploring border issues in her individual work and also as part of binational artist collectives such as the Border Art Workshop/Taller the Arte Fronterizo and Las Comadres. She also participated in several of the IN-SITE installations. Castrejon will present assemblages that combine photographic images, cutouts and recycled objects. The hands of an indigenous woman weaving as a cutout attached to an old wooden picture frame, the craft and tradition that connect us to the larger social and historical narrative of a border region that is at once American and Mexican, old and modern, promising and dire.
PARKING IS FREE DURING EVENT IN THE FACULTY A LOTS
(Adjacent and
across from the flagpole)
Gallery Hours: MTW 11-4 pm, Thursday 11 – 8 pm. Closed Fridays, weekends and school holidays.
Gallery Director: Alessandra Moctezuma, amoctezu@sdccd.edu
Gallery Coordinator: Pat Vine, pvine@sdccd.edu
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery: 7250 Mesa College Dr., San Diego, CA 92111
Gallery Hours: MTW 11-4 pm, Thursday 11 – 8 pm. Closed Fridays, weekends and school holidays.
Gallery Director: Alessandra Moctezuma, amoctezu@sdccd.edu
Gallery Coordinator: Pat Vine, pvine@sdccd.edu
San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery: 7250 Mesa College Dr., San Diego, CA 92111
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