50th anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre, Judge blocks termination of TPS, Advance Parole Campaign – Newsletter Oct. 4, 2018 | The California-Mexico Studies Center, Inc.

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Tlatelolco and its Meaning: Reflections by Raúl Alvarez Garín

By David Bacon ~ NACLA ~ October 2, 2018

Every year on October 2nd, thousands of Mexican students pour into the streets of Mexico City, marching from Tlatelolco plaza through the historic downtown to the Zócalo. They're remembering the hundreds of students who were gunned down by their own government in 1968, an event that shaped the lives of almost every young person in Mexico during that time.

Raúl Álvarez Garín was one of those students whose world changed at Tlatelolco. He was a leader of the national student strike committee, organizing campus walkouts and street mobilizations through the spring of 1968. This rebellious upsurge occurred simultaneously with student protests in France, the United States, and across the globe. When the Left resurfaced after a period of extreme repression in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Álvarez became a leader of the Mexican Left, publishing the leftist magazine Punto Critico, Corre la Voz and numerous articles. For more biographical information, Read More.

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As Mexico marks 50th anniversary of Tlatelolco massacre, students say they're still under attack

By Associated Press ~ LA Times

When soldiers massacred at least 44 people - or as many as 300 by some estimates - at a student protest in Mexico City's Tlatelolco plaza on Oct. 2, 1968, the killers wore uniforms. Today, students in Mexico say they are still under attack, but now from thugs, drug cartels, paramilitaries or rapists.

Today's student activists - and even the graying veterans of the 1968 democracy movement - acknowledge they now have free speech, something the '68 generation fought for. But they say the impunity remains the same; nobody was ever convicted for the 1968 killings.

As Mexico marks the 50th anniversary of Tlatelolco on Tuesday, the massacre remains something of an open wound: Nobody knows exactly how many died when soldiers opened fire on a peaceful demonstration. Estimates range from the official version of 25 dead to a more recent investigation that identified 44, but activists at the time claimed large numbers of bodies were carted off in garbage trucks.

It wasn't until last week that a government agency acknowledged for the first time that it was "a state crime."

Nor - say both those who survived the attack and the generation that has inherited their activist mantle - has the country learned crucial lessons from the tragedy, with nearly all the crimes of today similarly going unresolved and unpunished, by both state and non-state actors. Read More.

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Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from ending TPS

By Catherine E. Shoichet ~ CNN

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who feared they could soon be facing deportation got a reprieve Wednesday, when a federal judge in California temporarily blocked one of the Trump administration's major immigration moves.

US District Judge Edward Chen granted a preliminary injunction stopping the government from terminating temporary protected status, or TPS, for immigrants from Sudan, El Salvador, Haiti and Nicaragua.

Chen ruled that the government must maintain TPS, and employment authorizations for TPS beneficiaries from those countries, while a lawsuit challenging the government's decision to eliminate their protections continues.

TPS protects migrants in the United States from countries that have been hit by dire conditions, such as epidemics, war or natural disaster. Previous administrations had opted to extend the protections for most of the countries involved every few years when they came up for review, but the Trump administration has moved toward ending protections for the majority of immigrants under the program, arguing that the initial conditions that necessitated them are no longer present. Read More.

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Advance Parole Voices: Karina Ruiz de Diaz

Sadly, Karina Ruiz de Diaz, one of our previous Dreamers Study Abroad program participants, lost her paternal grandmother last month, and is one more voice to advocate for the restoring of Advance Parole for DACA recipients.

Karina who is a DACA recipient and the executive director of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition (ADAC), shared her concerns for her grandmother with the CMSC team in July, as presented on this video. Her grandmother has passed away since this recording. She is one more voice, one more person, one more reason for us to take action and tell congress that the denial of Advance Parole is causing irreparable harm.

Advance Parole Voices is a short documentary video series that educates about, and advocates for the reinstatement of the Advance Parole immigration provision for DACA recipients.

The series features stories, voices and testimonies from DACA-mented individuals who traveled with Advance Parole, who participated in the California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Programs, and also those Dreamers who have been denied the travel authorization since the Trump Administration suspended the provision on September 5, 2017.

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Support the CMSC Fund Drive to continue to advocate for the restoration of DACA's Advance Parole authorization

As you may already know, the CMSC is committed to educate about, and advocate for the reinstatement of the Advance Parole provision for DACA recipients. Thus, we plan to incorporate more stories, voices and testimonies from DACA-mented individuals who traveled with Advance Parole, who participated in our California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, and also those who have been denied since September 5, 2017.

The current version of the documentary features Mayra Garibo, a Senior at CSU Dominguez Hills and a DACA recipient, who could not attend her dad's funeral when he passed away in Mexico early this year. She applied for humanitarian Advance Parole and was denied twice. Mayra was unable to pay the last respects to her beloved father whom she had not seen in 17 years. Now one of her grandparents has cancer and she wants to see him and take care of him before it is too late.

But given the administration's heartless decision to suspend Advance Parole for Dreamers, Mayra must choose between her family in Mexico and her life in the United States.

The original Advance Parole film follows Mayra Garibo's efforts and leadership to challenge the system and pave the way not only for her to reunite with her family in Mexico, but also to prevent Dreamers from suffering a humanitarian and emotional crisis as she endured when her father passed away early this year.

The Advance Parole extended version aims to build upon and share more stories and voices from other Dreamers, who either benefited from Advance Parole and those who have been unjustly denied.

But to move forward with this, we need your help!

All volunteers, leadership and support initiatives, and community engagement is welcomed!

Donations and financial backing will help us continue to advocate for the reinstatement of Advance Parole, to cover our social media campaign, film production, and marketing costs.

All support and campaign participation is greatly appreciated!

Please contact us to join this campaign, as an individual or an organization at californiamexicocenter@gmail.com

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Learn more about the Advance Parole provision, and the CMSC's unique study abroad program for DACA recipients, watch this 1-minute movie clip from the documentary:

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Cerritos College lecture: The 1968 East LA High School Walkouts

Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, co-founder of the CSULB Chicano & Latino Studies department and a participant in the 1968 East L.A. high school walkouts, will lecture on "How the Chicano Student Movement Created Chicano Studies." This lecture will chronicle how the founding of the CSULB Chicano Studies department and many other Ethnic Studies programs at numerous colleges and universities were established in 1969, due to the leadership of Chicano and Black students.

Cerritos College (Room LC 155)

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

11:00am-12:30pm

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