Dear California-Mexico Studies Center Colleagues, Supporters, Dreamers and Friends,
As we approach the end of another remarkable year, we celebrate and value the challenges and milestones of 2023. Undoubtedly, the impact we've made and the lives we've touched wouldn't be possible without the unwavering support of our dedicated staff, colleagues, and binational community.
Together we have successfully completed 24 study abroad programs since 2014, which have given the benefits of our program to almost 800 Dreamers.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to each one of you who has contributed time, resources, and passion to the California-Mexico Studies Center's mission.
Your commitment has been the driving force behind every success and milestone we've achieved.
Looking ahead to the coming year, our resolve to make a difference remains stronger than ever and we are committed to lead a campaign for a 2024-2030 California-Mexico Binational Academic Exchange Program.
With your support, we aim to continue the CMSC’s Independent Dreamers Study Abroad Program for DACA recipients and continue to cultivate educational exchange opportunities in Mexico and California, in collaboration with Dr. Enrique Murillo’s LEAD Summit 2024 and our network of academic and cultural partners in our motherland.
This network includes Collaboration Agreements with Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco-UNAM, Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) and Cuernavaca’s CILAC Freire Institute.
We wish you a joyful holiday season and a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year!
With sincere appreciation,
El Profe Armando
P.S.: As we conclude this year, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the California-Mexico Studies Center to ensure that our vital work continues in the coming months.
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Given the tenuous future of DACA, the CMSC has decided to create the Spring and Summer 2024 Independent Dreamers Study Abroad Program (IDSAP) in order to offer a broader and a more flexible travel-study opportunity for Dreamers in Mexico and other countries of origin from April 1, 2024 to June 30, 2024 for the Spring Program and July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024 for the Summer Program.
This unique model will allow for both, Mexican-origin Dreamers and DACA-mented Dreamers from other countries to discover their birthplace, cultural roots, reaffirm their identity, reconnect with their families, and explore higher education opportunities in Mexico.
This program will operate under the CMSC’s Mexico City-based collaboration with a network of partner institutions, which include: Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM), Facultad de Estudios Superiores de Acatlán Campus and Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, the five-campus prestigious Mexico City Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM), the public Mexico City Autonomous University (UACM), El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) and the CILAC Freire Institute in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
The CMSC’s Spring and Summer 2024 Independent Dreamers Study Abroad Program (IDSAP) has been designed specifically to offer travel-study options for individual Dreamers or in small groups, for colleges and universities to develop long-term and short-term projects for their Dreamers and to continue to require an ethnographic research paper based on their experience returning to their homeland and discovering Mexico.
The Spring and Summer 2024 Independent Dreamers Study Abroad Program (IDSAP) is explicitly designed for colleges and universities, Labor Unions, Community-based Organizations, Churches and Religious Organizations, and Dreamers’ organizations, interested in contracting with the CMSC for travel-study abroad programs designed specifically for the sponsoring institution’s purpose and participants, including non-Latino and non-Spanish-speaking Dreamers...
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Do not wait until the last minute!!!
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Please take into consideration that the Advance Parole application approval process time can vary from 2 to 6 months; thus, we will give preference to those applicants who are quick to submit their completed online application and letter of recommendation.
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WATCH THE NEW CMSC DOCUMENTARY
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No Mas Sobras, No More Crumbs
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By Caitlen Yilek | CBS News | DEC. 20, 2023 | Photo By Kevin Mohatt
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Washington — An unprecedented ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that bans former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot is unlikely to be the final word on the matter.
The court put its ruling on hold until Jan. 4, anticipating that Trump would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting up a showdown to decide whether the Republican presidential front-runner can remain in the race just as primaries begin in early states.
What Did The Ruling Say?
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Trump is disqualified from holding the presidency under the Constitution's so-called insurrection clause. But the issue divided the seven justices — all of whom were appointed by Democratic governors.
"President Trump did not merely incite the insurrection," the court wrote in the 4-to-3 ruling. "Even when the siege on the Capitol was fully underway, he continued to support it by repeatedly demanding that Vice President [Mike] Pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling Senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electoral votes... Read More
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By Nate Raymond | Reuters | DEC. 4, 2023 | Photo By Cheriss May
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The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed the first Latina judge to serve on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving Democratic President Joe Biden his second appointee on a court whose conservative majority has often blocked his policies.
The Senate voted 80-12 to elevate U.S. Magistrate Irma Carrillo Ramirez to the New Orleans-based court, where she would become the fifth active Democratic appointee on a court dominated by the 12 judges nominated by Republican presidents.
The bipartisan vote reflected the support of Texas' two Republican senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. They had recommended Biden nominate Ramirez, who has served as a federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of Texas since 2002.
Cornyn and Cruz had previously supported her when former President Barack Obama nominated Ramirez to a district court judgeship in 2016, but the Senate failed to confirm her when the Democrat's time in the White House ended.
The "blue slip" custom in which senators must approve court nominees from their home states was abandoned for circuit judges during the Trump administration. But the support of home-state senators can still smooth the confirmation process for appellate nominees...Read More
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By Soudi Jimenez | Los Angeles Times | NOV. 20, 2023 | Photo By Raul Roa
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The walls of office No. 311 at Loyola Marymount University‘s College of Business Administration are covered with diplomas and awards. They symbolize the many achievements of Angélica S. Gutiérrez and the hardships she overcame to earn them.
Most academics would feel an abiding and justified sense of personal satisfaction in displaying such testimonials. Yet Gutiérrez, 45, who grew up in an immigrant Lincoln Heights family, has to pinch herself frequently in order to believe that her accolades are real.
Like many people of similar backgrounds who she meets through her research, Gutiérrez suffers from the affliction commonly known asimpostor phenomenon, a condition that Gutiérrez refers to as “impostorization.” It’s the uneasy, ever-present sensation that you’re a fraud, your successes aren’t deserved, and it’s only a matter of time before you’re unmasked as the failure you truly are.
Typically, and ironically, it tends to afflict high achievers. In the United States, impostorization also tends disproportionately to affect women, people of color and immigrants or their offspring.
“I do research and I’ve realized that there are quite a few people who feel that,” Gutiérrez said. But, she added, many Latinas and Latinos live the reality of impostorization “when they find themselves in an environment where people don’t look like them.”
The sense of being an impostor often goes hand in hand with the feeling that you must work twice as hard and be twice as successful in order to prove your worthiness in a society that is quick to doubt people like you. The American Psychological Assn. estimates that up to 82% of people in the United States suffer from the condition, which can lead to increased anxiety, depression, less risk-taking in careers and professional burnout...Read More
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THE POWER OF THE MEXICAN VOTE
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LA FUERZA DEL VOTO MEXICANO
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WHO IS CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM PARDO?
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CLAUDIA : EL DOCUMENTAL
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Don't miss out on the opportunity to experience stories that transcend boundaries and will leave an indelible mark on your soul!
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Our first book "Anthology of Dreams from an Impossible Journey” has arrived! This glossy, 380-page, bilingual tome is jam-packed with photos and stories from the essays of our Dreamers Study Abroad Program participants. We want to ensure that as many people as possible can get a FREE copy. We ask only for a donation of $20 (USD) or 400 Pesos to cover shipping and handling. To receive your free copy, please fill out the order form found at
www.california-mexicocenter.org/book-launch/ |
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Please consider sponsoring our program today!!!
To be a sponsor contact Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos at: armando@calmexcenter.org or 562-972-0986
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Disclaimer: The California-Mexico Studies Center is a community-based California non-profit educational and cultural organization, established in 2010 and registered with the IRS as a tax-exempt charitable institution (ID: #27-4994817) and never affiliated with the California State University System or California State University Long Beach.
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