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In collaboration with the
Chicano-Latino Agenda, the Raza Retention & Recruitment Center,
Chicanos/Latinos in Health Education (CHE), Casa Joaquin Murieta, Casa
Magdalena Morathe, Gamma Zeta Alpha Inc., Hispanic Engineers and Sciences,
the Latino Business Association, and the Latino Pre-Law Society, the Berkeley
La Raza Law Journal invites you to join us on
Saturday, October 23, 2004
for a free day-long community forum,
Our Pueblo:
Defendiendo Nuestros Derechos
/
Defending Our Rights
at the
University of California, Berkeley
(Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. Hall)
For
a complete schedule, click here!
For a downloadable poster, click here!
Latina/o students at U.C. Berkeley are
collaborating to host a community forum, Our Pueblo: Defendiendo
Nuestros Derechos / Defending Our Rights to bridge the gaps between
Latina/o students and local Latina/o communities. As students, we recognize
our many privileges and have used them to open the University of California
a nuestro pueblo: Latinas/os and our allies living in Bay Area
communities. We also recognize that community members have as much to teach
students as we have to share with them.
Our Pueblo will create a space for
Latinas/os and our allies to dialogue about current conditions and issues.
Planned workshops will center Education, Health,
Immigration, and Political Access. Keynote speakers include
President of the Oakland City Council, Ignacio de la Fuente; State
Senator Liz Figueroa; and Cesar A. Cruz, East Bay community
organizer of the March 4 Education, Fast 4 Education, and Making Changes
Center / Freedom School.
Besides the workshops and speeches, Our
Pueblo will also feature a resource fair, where
community-based organizations will provide information about education,
health, immigration, and political access and inform community members
about the services they offer. Entertainment will include Peruvian dancers y
uno grupo de Danza Azteca.
The day will close with the community
forum, where workshop reporters and other attendees will have the
opportunity to voice their issues and to discuss our communities' inter-related
conditions and how we may move together to make the United States a place
that respects los derechos del nuestro pueblo.
Parts of the proceedings will be memorialized
in an upcoming issue of the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal. In
addition, students have resolved to follow up on Our Pueblo by
producing a set of written strategies that will be used to empower local
Latina/o communities and to inspire allies in other places.
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This exciting event extended the form of the
Journal's past symposia. Instead of hosting an event focused on legal
professionals, the Journal
organized a collaborative of Latina/o student organizations at U.C.
Berkeley. In addition to unifying Latina/o students, "Our Pueblo"
momentarily opened U.C. Berkeley to Latinas/os and our allies in local Bay
Area communities.
We look forward to seeing you!
Please send any questions to us at larazajournal@law.berkeley.edu.
Alternatively
call us at 510-642-9351.
For more information about other Berkeley La Raza Law Journal
symposia, click here.
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