USD School of Law has new scholarship for DACA students

Kate Morrissey San Diego Union Tribune
Aug 27, 2018

University of San Diego School of Law has a new scholarship fund for unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

Though the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protects these immigrants from deportation, it does not give them access to federal funding for higher education. USD School of Law hopes that having such a scholarship will enable more DACA recipients to go to law school.

Help get rid of for-profit charter schools in California

Dear Enrique,

This is our chance to get rid of for-profit charter schools in California

Please take a moment to write a letter to Governor Jerry Brown, urging him to sign Assembly Bill 406, a landmark bill that would prohibit charter schools from operating as or by a for-profit corporation, a for-profit Educational Management Organization (EMO), or a Charter Management Organization (CMO).

Sponsored by CFT, and authored by Assemblymember Kevin McCarty and co-authored by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond, the bill recently passed out of the California legislature and is now on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature.

Urge Governor Brown to ban for-profit charters

We know that there are currently 35 charter schools in California enrolling over 25,000 students that are either being operated as for-profit corporations or by for-profit corporations. These schools not only take money away from students for corporate profits with little to no transparency or accountability, they also take students away from traditional public schools, thus significantly impacting school funding at the district and school levels. Student achievement in these schools is dismal, posting graduation rates less than half of the statewide average.

AB 406 is an important step in ensuring that our public education dollars are not diverted to corporate profits. It is part of a broader effort by the CFT and other education advocates to hold charter schools accountable to the same standards as public schools.

Please take a moment to write a letter to the governor, encouraging him to sign this important piece of legislation into law.

Friends of Downtown Scholarship Opportuntiy for Students

We currently have two scholarship opportunities on the SDCity.AcademicWorks.com site – Friends of Downtown Academic and Friends of Downtown Vocational – I ask that you please share these scholarship opportunities with your students.

Please be sure to create a profile on Academicworks to apply for this scholarship opportunity – last year Friends of Downtown gave away 42 $750 scholarships to City College Students!

Let me know if you have any questions and PLEASE feel free to share the poster below (and attached) with your students or in your office.

Thank you –

Sylvia Ramirez
Scholarship Coordinator
1313 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA, San Diego 92101-4787
619-388-3983

Sign the petition to stop Betsy DeVos from putting guns in schools

Anna Fusco [moveon-help@list.moveon.org]

Friday, August 24, 2018 11:40 AM

Sign the petition telling Betsy DeVos to use federal funds for education not putting guns into schools.

Dear MoveOn member,

I'm Anna Fusco, Broward Teachers Union president in Florida, and I started a petition to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos because she is considering a plan that would allow states to use Title IV federal funds to purchase guns for teachers.1

Arming teachers is not a solution to school shootings. Educators want to teach, not be armed at school. Students and parents want schools to be safe and welcoming places.

https://chicanaodispatches.blogspot.com/2018/08/sign-petition-to-stop-betsy-devos-from.html

US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery'

US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery' 

National Prison Strike

Men and women incarcerated in prisons across the nation declare a nationwide strike in response to the riot in Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in South Carolina. Seven comrades lost their lives during a senseless uprising that could have been avoided had the prison not been so overcrowded from the greed wrought by mass incarceration, and a lack of respect for human life that is embedded in our nation’s penal ideology. These men and women are demanding humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform and the end of modern day slavery.

Horror at TX Detention Center: ICE Guards Separate Fathers & Sons After They Had Just Been Reunited

Democracy Now Aug 20, 2018

In Texas, armed guards forcibly removed 16 fathers from the Karnes County detention center, where they were being held with their sons after the families were separated at the border and then reunited. Authorities appear to have reseparated the parents and sons as retaliation for organizing a nonviolent protest. Many of the imprisoned fathers said they had been tricked into signing deportation agreements in English that ICE told them were reunification papers. 
The families have now been reunited, and some have been released. For more, we speak with Casey Miller and Manoj Govindaiah
 with RAICES, a Texas-based legal aid group for immigrants.

Campus emergencies

Seconds count

1.    For a life threatening situation, call 911 from any campus telephone, pay or cell phone. This will also notify College Police Dispatch.

2.    If dispatch does not call you immediately on your campus line contact  COLLEGE POLICE DISPATCH: Press the button designated COLLEGE POLICE on your phone or call (619)388-6405.

3.    PROGRAM SDCCD POLICE DISPATCH NUMBER INTO YOUR CELL PHONE---(619) 388-6405 and Download our safety app, LIVESAFE,  on to any smart phone using your app store, then select San Diego City College to receive emergency information and notifications.

4.    Remember that COLLEGE POLICE are the FIRST RESPONDERS for emergencies. They patrol our campus, can readily dispatch help, are CPR certified and have defibrillator access (AED). In knowing our campus they assure paramedics can quickly locate the victim for transfer to an appropriate medical facility.

5.    Please do not delay emergency care for the victim by first seeking out a Student Health Clinic nurse, going to City Campus Police Offices, or by calling the City Police Business Office. This wastes valuable seconds in an emergency; which may in-turn delay the Emergency Response Team (paramedics) and College Police Dispatch.

6.    Familiarize yourself with the nearest AED (defibrillator) and emergency call box locations on campus!

7.     For more information about safety at SDCCD, go to http://police.sdccd.edu

You may call us in the Student Health Clinic at X 3450 if you have questions.

1 Unit Class To Help You With Writing

 
If you have a class that requires extensive writing, you are welcome to register for English 13A if you need additional support. It’s a late start, one-unit class designed to provide you with help to improve upon your writing assignments from your other classes.

San Diego City College Library

City Bookstore

Hello Everyone!

The City Bookstore is still located in three different locations for swing space for this semester.

B105 – TEXTBOOKS ONLY.  Clerk-service basis: A bookstore staff member will pull the books for each student according to their schedule.  It is extremely important that each student remember to bring his/her printed schedule in order to purchase textbooks.

B202 – SCHOOL SUPPLIES, CLOTHING, BACKPACKS, GIFTS.   REFUNDS will also be processed from this room.  Although this room is not clerk-service, space is limited so only a few students will be able to enter at one time.

MS Bookstore –MATH, ARTF, ARTG, COSM, NRSE are located in this bookstore.

Below are the City Bookstore hours for the week of August 20^th.  Please note the extended hours in red.

 

Thank you.

 

Dee

 

 

B105/B202

 

Week of August 20

Monday – Thursday                        745am – 700pm

Friday                                                    745am – 200pm

Saturday                                              1000am – 100pm

 

 

MS STORE

 

Week of August 20

Monday – Thursday                        745am – 630pm

Friday                                                    745am – 1200pm

Dee Dee Porter
Campus Store Supervisor
San Diego City College | 1313 Park Boulevard A12 | San Diego, CA | 92101
619-388-3549 | dporter@sdccd.edu | http://www.bookstore.sdccd.edu/city/

Your HISTORY, KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE … is waiting for you.

Chicana and Chicano Studies
San Diego City College

Open Chicana/o Studies Classes:

• US History from Chicanx Perspective 141A Course # 04844
• Mexican Literature 130 # Course 79218
• Chicanx Literature 135 # Course 92450
• La Chicana 170 # Course 93839
• History of Mexico 150 Course # 87432

Go to Schedule.sdccd.edu for full listing

Conferencia Binacional 2018 Binational Conference

English versión below  - Versión en español ver abajo

Séptima Conferencia Binacional en Temas Fronterizos

Seventh Binational Conference on Border Issues

Beyond the Wall: Resistance among Border Communities

Más allá del muro: resistencias desde las comunidades fronterizas

San Diego: Jueves Thursday Nov 15

San Diego City College

Tijuana: Viernes Friday Nov 16

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

BinationalConferencia.Org

Español

En esta coyuntura en la que las democracias están fallado como una opción frente a un sistema deshumanizante y depredador y cuando asistimos a la fortificación del muro entre México y los Estados Unidos, nos interesa discutir y mostrar las formas de resistencia surgidas desde las comunidades fronterizas y transfronterizas. La llegada de Trump a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos ha generado una tensión entre la población que afecta directamente la vida cotidiana de personas de origen latino y especialmente de México y de las comunidades fronterizas. ¿Cuáles son las posibles formas de enfrentar este nuevo orden neoconservador? ¿Desde qué experiencias organizativas se han empezado a crear espacios de reflexión y acción transformadora? ¿Cómo responder a las nuevas y viejas formas de discriminación y negación de las minorías?

Anuncio y convocatoria

Este anuncio es también una invitación a activistas, académicas/os y estudiantes en ambos lados de la frontera internacional a participar en esta conferencia. Las presentaciones serán de 10 o 20 minutos (incluyendo preguntas y respuestas); los paneles serán de 1 h 15 min a 1 h 30 min.

Temas de interés incluyen pero no están limitados a:

● Identidad cultural ●Deportación y repatriación ● Guerra contra las drogas ● Salud y medio ambiente ● Derechos humanos ● Espiritualidad y religión ● Asentamientos y vivienda ● Trata de Personas ● Migrantes y refugiados ● Pueblos originales y luchas indígenas ●Trabajo y maquiladoras ● Acuerdos NAFTA, CAFTA, y libre comercio ● Política y elecciones ● Racismo, sexismo y homofobia ● Cerco y muro fronterizos ●Luchas de indocumentadas/os y Dreamers ● Migrantes UndocuQueer ● Educación y pedagogía fronteriza ● Arte en/desde/sobre la frontera ● Luchas de género

Si está interesada en exponer, favor de enviar su propuesta siguiente este enlace: Propuestas para la Conferencia Binacional. La fecha límite es el 15 de agosto de 2018.

Las presentaciones más relevantes serán publicadas en Cuadernos de Estudios Transfronterizos.

Exhibición de Arte Fronterizo: Los trabajos artísticos serán exhibidos como parte de la conferencia. Si está interesada/o en exponer, favor de seguir este link: ArtExhibit

Contacto e información adicional:

E-mail: binationalconference@gmail.com

English 

At a time in which democracies are failing, in the face of a dehumanizing and predatory system, and as we witness the fortification of the wall between Mexico and the United States, we are interested in discussing and showing the forms of resistance that have arisen from the border and transborder communities. The Trump administration generates tension that directly affects the daily life of Latina/os, especially those from Mexico and from border communities. What are the possible ways to face this new neoconservative order? From what organizational experiences have we begun to create spaces for reflection and transformative action? How do we respond to new and old forms of discrimination and denial of minorities?

Announcement and Call for Papers

This announcement is also a call for papers from current researchers, activists, faculty, and students on both sides of the international border. Paper presentations will be 10 or 20 minutes in length (including presentation and Q and A). Panels are about 1 hour and 15 min to 1 hour and 30 min.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

● Cultural identity ● Deportation and repatration ● War on drugs ● Environment and health ● Human rights ● Spirituality / religion ● Housing ● Human Trafficking ● Migrant / Refugees ● Original peoples and Indigenous struggles ● Labor and Maquiladoras ● Agreements NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP and free trade ● Politics and elections ● Racism, sexism, homophobia ● Border fance and wall ● Undocumented struggles and Dreamers ● UndocuQueer migrants ● Border pedagogy ● Art in/from/on the border ● Gender struggles

If interested, please submit a proposal through this link: Binational Conference submissions form. The deadline is August 15.

Selected papers will be published in Journal of Transborder Studies.

Border Art Exhibition: Submitted artwork will be exhibited at the conference

If interested, please follow this link: ArtExhibit

Contact and additional information:

E-mail: binationalconference@gmail.com

Documentary Guerrero: Feb 14, 2018

In the state of Guerrero, México, activists Coni, Juan and Mario rebel against impunity,
regardless of the sacrifices and risks - even mortal - that their struggles involve. 

Screening of the documentary with the presence of the director
Ludovic Bonleux 

Film in Spanish with English subtitles 

Wednesday February 14
12:45 – 3:00 pm 

San Diego City College 

Room MS 462 

1046 16thth St

San Diego, CA 92101

Open to the public 

Trailer 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLpEYyyuwLM 

Facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/guerrerofilm/videos/877937889046092/

Marichuy in the Tijuana-San Diego Border: Feb 17, 2018

Transborder Voices With Marichuy and the
Mexican Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIG)

Saturday, February 17, 10 am- 2 pm

San Diego Side: Friendship Park

Tijuana Side: Playas de Tijuana

Facebook event

Info and directions to Frienship Park:

Friends of the Friendship Park website

http://www.friendshippark.org/

Friendship park @ Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/FofPark/

More info about this event:

The Indigenous Governing Council and Its Spokesperson Marichuy will be at the Tijuana / San Diego Border.

 María de Jesús Patricio Martinez, known as “Marichuy”, the spokesperson of Mexico’s Indigenous Governing Council and the first Indigenous woman, aspiring candidate for the 2018 Presidential Elections will be present at the US/Mexico Border. 

The Indigenous Governing Council has been traveling all over Mexico - through various Indigenous communities, cities, valleys and remote areas - to introduce another way of doing politics. They have been calling for visibility of the “Pueblos” or of all Indigenous communities to have a voice and a national platform to demand that the Mexican government and International community hear the voices of all those that have been resisting and to call on those communities being visited to organize themselves. 

We call on everyone to stand in solidarity on this day of action by supporting the last stop of the Indigenous Governing Council caravan at the Tijuana/San Diego border. 

Join us to hear the voices on both sides of the border… those of migrant mothers, students, Indigenous Peoples and all marginalized communities rising up against all borders through 
this binational political, cultural exchange. 

Let’s march together toward the beach at Border Field/Friendship Park at 8:30am on February 17, 2018. 

Program starts from 10:00-2:00pm 
Speakers/local representatives of diverse struggles 
Indigenous Governing Council delegates 
Cultural music, spoken word, poetry 
Words from Maria de Jesus Patricio Martinez “Marichuy” 
You are also welcome to participate on the Playas de Tijuana side @10am 

Join us in your cities: live-streaming on FB @ Apoyo al CIG Norte del Muro 

Bring your “Papalote” kites, an important symbol to be used for the event. We strongly advise for all those thinking to come that might have pending issues with their immigration status, warrants, probation or parole, to please not come or put yourself at risk. There are many ways you can support and get involved in the struggle, please email sextasd@riseup.net 

For Justice, Dignity, and Autonomy!!!!

Additonal info:

Marichuy – Video (English) by AJ+, Oct 2017
Meet Marichuy: the first indigenous woman to run for president in Mexico. AJ+


Marichuy – Video compile by Roberto Corona and the San Diego network in support of this campaign, Nov 2017.
This video with English subtitles compile Marichuy´s campaign, especially in Zapatista territory. Zapatistas USA

Marichuy -The Many Ways Mexico Is Trying to Stop an Indigenous Woman Candidate for President by Tamara Pearson, Truthout, Feb 2018.
Mexico's first Indigenous female presidential hopeful might not even get her campaign off the ground, thanks to outright discrimination and a host of arduous requirements that stop ordinary people from participating in politics.
The campaign of Maria de Jesús Patricio Martinez (also known as Marichuy) so far has just 14 percent of the signatures necessary to register her as a candidate for July's general election. Truthout


Gustavo Esteva. Marichuy: Balance de una campaña: Llegó la hora, La Jornada, 18 Febrero, 2018
El increíble recorrido que ha realizado la vocera del Concejo Indígena de Gobierno, un recorrido sin precedente por el número y calidad de los encuentros y por realizarse en muchos casos en comunidades que nadie había visitado jamás para un diálogo político, ha sido lo opuesto al acarreo homogéneo de las campañas en curso. En cada lugar ha sido diferente. No hay discursos acartonados, ni de quienes van ni de quienes reciben. No hay patrones de asistencia o de comportamiento. No hay normas. Pero sí hay algunas constantes. Resaltan dos en particular. La Jornada

Posada sin fronteras Dec 16, 2017

ASG Scholarships Fall 2017

Information about Scholarships:

SDCity.AcademicWorks.com

Marichuy Campaign- Nov 18, 2017

San Diego Rapid Response Network: Nov 18, 2017

San Diego Rapid Response Network 

A regional system to respond to reports of immigration raids/arrests, abuses and family separations. 

Volunteer!! 

Attend a training!! 

See below

The San Diego Rapid Response Network is a broad coalition of immigrant rights, faith, labor, education and service organizations as well as non-traditional organizations, attorneys, leaders and allies throughout the region that have joined forces to develop and operate a regional system that will respond to reports of immigration raids/arrests, abuses and family separations.

Please consider attending one of the workshops announced by the Network coordinator Katia Ortiz below. You will be trained and, after that, you would be able to volunteering some time supporting the network. It does not matter if you just have a couple of hours per week; they are useful. The network works around an app created by a group of Bay Area DACA students that is very flexible. It allows you to volunteer in the times and days you decide, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The system is already operating in at least 20 cities around the country. You could check the San Diego Rapid Response Network Facebook here.
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Good evening,

This is Katia Ortiz with San Diego Organizing Project and the with Rapid Response Network.

I want to personally thank you for your interest in helping our communities. I also wanted to personally invite you to our trainings.

The San Diego Rapid Response Network is a broad coalition of organizations as well as non-traditional organizations that have joined forces to develop and operate a regional system that will respond to reports of immigration raids/arrests, abuses and family separations.

We will have a couple of 2 hour trainings coming up and I would to see you again!
These trainings will teach about Know Your Rights and how you can be a part of Rapid Response.

I am really excited to work with you. So, I really hope to see you there.

Know Your Rights and Rapid Response Trainings: 

• November 18th from 9am-11am at the Employment Right Center
4265 Fairmount Avenue #250, San Diego, CA 92105

• November 20th from 9am-11am at Saint Jude Shrine of the West
3785 Boston Avenue, San Diego, CA 92113

• November 20th from 6pm-8pm at Jewish Family Services
8788 Balboa Avenue, San Diego, CA92123

Please let me know If any of these dates works best for you. I am very excited to lauch this to all our of comminiites and to be able to work together.

If you have any additional questions please feel free to email me,

RapidResponseCoordinator@sdop.net

Marichuy, la voz de los pueblos originarios de México: Nov 15, 2017

Marichuy, la voz de los pueblos originarios de México 

Presentation by Rosa Barajas, co-coordinator of the Caravana contra la Represion en Mexico and author of Marichuy, la voz de los pueblos originarios de México

Nov 15, 6 pm

Nov 16, 12:45 pm

San Diego City College

Room MS 462

Por primera vez en la historia de México una mujer indígena busca participar en las elecciones del 2018 para la presidencia de la república. Por elección de una asamblea de pueblos originarios congregados en el Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI), María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (Marichuy), nahua del sur de Jalisco, fue nombrada vocera del Concejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG) para participar en los comicios como candidata independiente. Su participación en el proceso rompe con la posición anti-electoral que desde sus inicios el CNI mantuvo, mostrando la falta de confianza hacia la política mexicana. Miembros del congreso indígena denuncian lo que llaman una guerra de exterminio hacia sus comunidades a favor de megaproyectos y en nombre del progreso. Ven su participación en el proceso electoral como una vía de denuncia y organización para detener esa guerra. 

Presentation by Rosa Barajas, co-coordinator of the Caravana contra la Represion en Mexico and author of Marichuy, la voz de los pueblos originarios de México

Latin American Folk Music- Nov 15, 2017

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