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CMSC's 'Advance Parole' documentary is nominated for Imagen Award
Our film Advance Parole has been selected as a Finalist in the Imagen Awards Short/Student Films & Web Series Competition of the 33rd Annual Imagen Awards. The film that gets the most votes, will be declared the winner. Our goal with the film is for it to reach as many people as possible to create awareness regarding the suspension of Advance Parole, and to advocate to reinstate it in the meantime congress finds a permanent fix for DACA recipients.
We would like to ask you to support us and Lidieth Arevalo by voting on the following website: https://www.imagen.org/vote/student-films/
All you need to do is click on the link, select the Advance Parole film poster, and enter your email. You can vote once a day using one email and browser. Voting will be open through Friday, August 3rd.
In case you haven't, you can watch the full documentary here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuujYzl5IA
Or check out the 2-minute trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_M1Dbjl9MI
Also, visit our campaign website here: http://www.advanceparole.org/
Follow the cause on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
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School discipline, closing achievement gap are top new LBUSD board member's priorities
Video produced by the California Mexico Studies Center (CMSC)
By Valerie Osier ~ L.B. Post ~ July 16, 2018
The first Latino in 25 years to serve on the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education will take his oath of office Monday night.
As executive director for the Center for Community Engagement at Cal State Long Beach, Juan Benitez said he's not new to the community or working in it, and he's ready to keep doing that as an "accessible and present" board member.
"This is what I've been doing for more than half my life," he said.
The single father and CSULB professor won his seat on the board with over 60 percent of the vote.
First up on his to-do list: working to address educational disparities and achievement gaps across the district. While he likes the work the district is doing on this front already, he believes it can do better.
"When you look at graduation and college-going rates at Cabrillo and Poly and Jordan, for example, versus Lakewood, Wilson, the PACE program at Poly, there's a disparity there across the district," Benitez said. "I think we can have a high quality education across the district, both within schools in terms of our most vulnerable populations, but also across the district in terms of geography and the neighborhoods."
The district has already been working on this, board President Megan Kerr said. The district has set a goal that each school close achievement gaps in state testing by 50 percent every year. Read More
Juan Benitez is a professor and the Executive Director of the Center for Community Engagement at Cal State Long Beach. Photo courtesy of CSULB.
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Trump's response to the CMSC's letter advocating for reinstatement of DACA's Advance Parole
The CMSC recently launched a campaign to restore Dreamers' travel abroad authorization through DACA's Advance Parole provision, unjustly denied since Sept. 5, 2017 by the Trump administration. The following letter is the response received from the Trump administration.
The following is president Trump's response to the CMSC's letter to the White House, Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker Paul Ryan and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, advocating for the reinstatement of DACA's Advance Parole provision for Dreamers' right to travel abroad and lawful re-entry:
To view the CMSC's original letter, click here.
Please go to advanceparole.org and sign our petition.
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Exitoso Encuentro del Centro de Estudios California-Mexico y la Casa de las Américas en Cuba
El Encuentro del Centro de Estudios California-Mexico con la Casa de las Américas El reto de colaborar: Latinos de California y sus rumbos educativos en México y Cuba, estableció un acuerdo para construir vínculos académicos y culturales entre ambas instituciones, y fomentar la relación de Cuba con los Latinos en Estados Unidos y los Mexicanos en ambos lados de la frontera.
Para este fin, la delegación del CMSC celebro una reunión de trabajo con los colegas de la Casa de las Américas el 14 de Junio 2018 en La Habana, y se vinculó con otros funcionarios de la educación superior, cultura y artes en Cuba, para desarrollar varios proyectos la organización de la 1ª Catedra Martiana en California que el CECM prende establecer en 2019.
Presentadores y temas de la delegación del CMSC:
- Profesor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Cofundador del Departamento de Estudios Chicanos en la Universidad Estatal de California de Long Beach: El legado y la importancia de los Estudios Chicanos para México y los Mexicanos
- Profesor Gonzalo Santos, Sociólogo de la Universidad Estatal de California en Bakersfield: La importancia de la capacidad económica y política de los Latinos en California
- Dr. Mario Alberto Najera, Director del Centro de Estudios sobre Movimientos Sociales de la Universidad de Guadalajara: Integración de la Cátedra Martiana en la educación superior de los Estados Unidos
- Profesor Jose Prado, Sociólogo de la Universidad Estatal de California en Dominguez Hills: El reto y la oportunidad de capacitación de Chicanos y Latinos en los Estados Unidos
- Artista Luis C. Garza, Curador en el Museo Autry de Los Angeles: La exhibición fotográfica en celebración del 50º Aniversario del periódico La Raza de Los Ángeles
(Casa de las Americas carta de intención)
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