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50 years later, Chicano Catholic activists recall their midnight Mass clash with police
By: Alejandra Molina ~ Religion News ~ January 16, 2020
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Fifty years later, Richard Martínez still remembers the yelling and screaming. He and a group of supporters of Católicos por La Raza, a lay Catholic group, were trying to get into the midnight Mass at St. Basil Catholic Church in Los Angeles, where then-Cardinal James Francis McIntyre was presiding. They wanted to confront McIntyre about what they said was the Catholic Church’s neglect of the poor and the lack of Mexican American representation within the institution.
Off-duty deputy sheriffs, acting as ushers, tried to keep them out. As Martínez and others tried to force their way in, the crowd outside St. Basil kept chanting: “Let the poor people in! Let the poor people in!”
Eventually, according to Los Angeles Times archives, more than 20 people were arrested for their part in the melee.
"The church needed to be part of our life," said Martínez, 76.
Firma el CECUT convenio con el CMSC para la difusión de la cultural Chicana
Por: Redaccion ~ El Imparcial ~ 20 de Enero 2020
Tijuana, BC.- Con el objetivo de propiciar el intercambio artístico binacional e impulsar proyectos conjuntos, el Centro Cultural Tijuana, organismo de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México, y el Centro de Estudios California-México, suscribieron un convenio de colaboración.
La directora general del Cecut, Vianka R. Santana, y su similar del centro de estudios californiano, Armando Vázquez-Ramos, firmaron el acuerdo que persigue la difusión del arte y la cultura chicana en México.
El fotógrafo Luis C. Garza, autor de “Los días de la Raza”, exposición que documenta en imágenes el activismo del movimiento chicano de los años 60 y 70, y que albergó el Cecut a lo largo de los últimos tres meses, firmó en calidad de testigo el convenio de colaboración que abarca el intercambio en distintos campos del arte y la cultura.
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50th Anniversary Celebration of Católicos por La Raza's historic protest
To mark the 50th anniversary of Católicos por La Raza’s historic protest for church reform, a group of young people and elders from the Chicano Movement celebrated the CPLR historic protest for church reform on December 24, 1969.
The CPLR reunion took place on Saturday, January 11, 2020 at the legendary Church of the Epiphany in LA's Lincoln Heights neighborhood, organized by Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos and Lydia Lopez, and attended by many of the leaders, academics, students, and family members of the survivors.
Special thanks to Father Tom Carey and Father Richard Estrada for hosting the event, and to all attendees, including those featured in the documentary below: Richard Martinez, Rosa Martinez, Gonzalo Santos, Camilo Cruz, Luis Garza, Don Jones Lobato, Rosalio Muñoz, Jorge Corralejo, Paul Sandorff, Rosie Bermudez, Ana Nieto Gomez, Tomas Varela, Sofia Gutierrez, Felipe Hinojosa and Ruben Tapia.
Watch the full CPLR documentary below:
Las dos caras del neoliberismo triunfante
Por: Profe Gonzalo Santos ~ 17 de Enero, 2020
La portada de hoy en el periódico mexicano La Jornada lo dice todo, mejor que ningún artículo:
Por un lado, una foto mostrando otra caravana más de migrantes centroamericanos huyendo a pie, desesperados de la violencia y pobreza crónica en sus quebrantados países, verdaderos estados fallidos producto de intervenciones militares y guerras de contrainsurgencia estadounidenses, seguidos en tiempos de "paz" de onerosos tratados comerciales neoliberales.
Por el otro, la noticia, celebrada en letras enormes y palabras festivas, que el Senado estadounidense aprobó otro tratado comercial neoliberal con México y Canadá, que precisamente elude todo lo referente al desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones que serán pauperizadas precisamente por semejante régimen económico.
La espantosa realidad brota a la vista de todos. Otra cosa es que no la querramos ver y que preferimos "celebrarla": ¡Ya se ratificó el tratado que nos traerá la gran prosperidad compartida a la vuelta de la esquina!
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National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole 2019 Report
Check out our National Campaign to Restore DACA's Advance Parole 2019 Report to learn about the efforts that we have been making both in California and in Washington, DC, as well as what we have accomplished so far at the congressional level, and what is to come in this new year.
Please support our campaigns and upcoming projects as we move forward into 2020. The CMSC team plans to continue our advocacy to restore DACA’s Advance Parole until justice is done, and congress does the right thing for DACA and TPS recipients and for all undocumented immigrants who contribute to our country and who call our country their home.
CAMPAIGN FOR IMMIGRANTS' MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 2020
The CMSC has decided to initiate in 2020 the Campaign for Immigrants’ Mental Health Services, based on our 5-year experience relying upon group therapy sessions for the participants in our California-Mexico Dreamers Study Abroad Program, and the 3 Advance Parole Campaign advocacy trips to Washington, DC in 2019.
The purpose of this campaign will be to inform and educate the public regarding the psychological crisis affecting the immigrant population throughout the U.S., due to a pervasive state of fear generated by the Trump administration since coming into office in 2017, the targeted acts of violence as the August 3, 2019 El Paso, Texas mass shooting at a Walt Mart store, and the hate-crimes aimed against immigrants, Mexicans and Latinos.
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