San Diego Chicanao Blog

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

Digital Gym Cinema: Info, tickets, trailer

Cast: Cassandra Ciangherotti, Christian Vásquez

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.

Trailer: Youtube

The Kumeyaay: Nov 13

Give Leobardo his job back

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About the Fence: Oct 10-Nov 6

San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery

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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.

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

Campus map: http://www.sdmesa.edu/directories/campus-map/

Día de los Muertos at Centro Cultural de la Raza: Nov 2

Dia Muertos Chicano Park: Nov 2

David Alvarez at City College: Oct 31

Dia de Muertos at City: Oct 31, Thursday

Devon Peña: Oct 24

Devon Peña

"Environmental Justice and the State of Exception"

October 24, Thursday 6:30 pm

University of San Diego

Salomon Hall

Directions

Devon Pena is the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) scholar of the year in 2013 and is a strong voice for environmental justice, Chicana and Chicano culture, food sovereignty, and cultural recovery for Indigenous/Latino peoples.

Malalai Joya: Oct 22

Malalai Joya

October 22nd at 11:10 am

City College

Room V101

She is an Afghani woman's rights and anti-war activist who was instrumental in advocating for women and opposing war and occupation before she was driven into exile. She is now taking her campaign international.

For more info see:

http://sdcpj.org/

Tell President Obama to remove the immigrant imprisonment quota

Dear Enrique,

News flash: President Obama’s 2015 budget requests a wasteful and dangerous policy that indiscriminately jams immigrants into private prisons.

Immigrants who have committed no crimes or only minor crimes are being stuffed into prisons to meet an arbitrary immigrant body count quota passed by the House of Representatives in 2006. That means ICE has a sick incentive to rip immigrant families apart, profile Latinos in border communities, and give billions of dollars away to private prison corporations like GEO Group -- all for no good reason.¹

President Obama could push back against this policy. Instead, his budget request legitimizes it. It’s one thing for GOP extremists to request a policy like this -- it’s another thing entirely when a President who claims to support our communities does.

Tell President Obama to remove the immigrant imprisonment quota from his FY2015 budget request and not to request this bad policy in the future.

Some people call it the “bed mandate.” We call it the immigrant imprisonment quota. Whatever you call it, it’s bad news -- so why does President Obama seem to support it?

The immigrant imprisonment quota is exactly what it sounds like: ICE is required to hold at least 34,000 immigrants each day in private detention centers. This quota is the main reason so many immigrants who haven’t committed any crimes are arrested and detained by ICE.

Putting someone in a private detention center costs $160 each day, or $2 billion each year -- a huge giveaway to private prison companies like GEO Group. Meanwhile, alternatives to incarceration cost as little as $17 per day, are effective, and they keep immigrant families together as they wait for due process.

Stopping Obama’s budget request is an important first step in eliminating this policy for good. And now that 65 members of the House of Representatives have sent the president a letter opposing it, there isn’t a better time to pressure Obama to do his part.²

Please ask President Obama to drop the immigrant imprisonment quota from all future budget requests to Congress.

Thanks and ¡adelante!
Arturo, Jesús, Erick, Erica and the rest of the Presente.org Team

P.S. Can you donate $5 to support our work? We rely on contributions from people like you to see campaigns like this through.

Sources:
1. Controversial quota drives immigration detention boom." Washington Post, Oct. 13 2013.
2. Letter to President Obama - End Immigrant Detention Bed Mandate."Project Vote Smart, Sept. 26, 2013.

National Day of Action: Oct 5

Facebook event: Oct5

Join thousands across the country to tell Congress:

Just and fair immigration reform is necessary

Communities demand immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship, protects workers' rights, promotes family unity, and stops the militarization of border communities.

Take a stand and march with your community...

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW

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Unase con miles por todo el país para exijirle al Congreso:

Una reforma migratoria justa y equitativa es necesaria

Comunidades exigen una reforma migratoria que contenga un camino hacía la ciudadanía, que proteja a los derechos laborales, promueve la unidad familiar, y pone un alto a la militarización de las comunidades fronterizas.

Unase al esfuerzo y marche con su comunidad...

EN LOS PROXIMOS DIAS SE LE AGREGARAN MAS DETALLES

For more information // Para más detalles:

oct5sd@gmail.com

Queer in Aztlán: Oct 3

Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out

By Gibrán Güido

Thursday, October 3 from 12:45 – 2:10 p.m.

Room MS-162

A former City College student, Gibrán Güido is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. In 2010, he organized the Fifth Annual Queer People of Color Conference at San Diego State University and co-organized the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Third Jotería Conference. He is a recipient of the Richard P. Geyser Ethics Memorial Scholarship.

His book, Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out, is an anthology explores issues of queer youth identity, sexuality, masculinity, homophobia, sexism, and violence in Mexican and American culture.

The volume gives readers the opportunity to value deeply personal narratives from queer Chicanos/Mexicanos and makes it possible for them to understand and sympathize with the stories’ protagonists.

Güido co-edited the publication with San Diego State Chicano Studies professor Adelaida Del Castillo.

Reyna Grande: Oct 2

Reyna Grande

8th Annual San Diego City College International Book Fair

Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:10 am

Room V-101

Author of The Distance Between Us and Across a Hundred Mountains.

She was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Update Struggle Ethnic Studies in AZ: Oct 2

Update on Struggle for Ethnic Studies in Arizona

Oct 2: 7 pm

Centro Cultural de la Raza

Directions

The House I Live In- Oct 1

Tuesday, Oct 1, 12:45 – 2:10 p.m.

Room V-101

San Diego City College

The film The House I Live In won a Grand Jury Prize Documentary, at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film examines the correlation between the war on drugs and mass incarceration.

Scholarships Fall 2013

San Diego City College Foundation

Scholarship Applications are available NOW!

Deadline: December 9, 2013

Scholarship opportunities are available exclusively for City College students.

APPLYING IS AS EASY AS 1 - 2 - 3!

Review available scholarships for eligibility. Applications and other important information available at: City Scholarships
Complete scholarship application(s). Be sure to answer all of the questions and include all requested materials.
Submit your application(s) on or before 12 Noon on December 9, 2013

Completed applications must be submitted to the Office of Student Affairs Room D106 by the above deadline. Late applications will not be accepted – No exceptions.

Recipients will be selected by respective scholarship committees in mid-March.

Questions? Visit http://www.sdcity.edu/scholarships/

Early Scholarships

Scholarships that will close early: visit

Early scholarships

Baile for the Baja California Kumeyaay: Sept 21

Day of Activism: Sept 16 and 17

Day of Activism

Service Learning Program

Monday, Sept 16, 11 am

Ollin Calli and Maquiladoras, Tijuana

CAFE

Tuesday, Sept 17, 11 am

Binational Conference on Border Issues

El Coyote Newspaper

MeCHA

Mixtec Cultural Exchange