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By Emily DeLetter | USA Today | DEC. 4, 2023 | Photo Courtesy of US Navy Archives
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Thursday Dec. 7 marks National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and is the 82nd anniversary since the attack in Hawaii that began the U.S.'s involvement in World War II.
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese military made a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of service members and civilians, over a thousand injuries, the sinking of American ships and destruction of aircrafts. The next day, the U.S. declared war on Japan and entered into World War II.
Here's what to know about National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Dec. 7, 1941:America remembers devastating attack on Pearl Harbor
When Is National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day?
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is observed on Dec. 7 every year, the anniversary of the attack by the Japanese military on the naval base in Hawaii.
Commemorations are held every year in Hawaii and across the country to mark the day, and American flags will be flown at half-staff.
What Is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day? What To Know About 1941 Attack That Sent US Into WWII
Thursday Dec. 7 marks National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and is the 82nd anniversary since the attack in Hawaii that began the U.S.'s involvement in World War II.
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese military made a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which resulted... Read More
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By Shirley Gomez | HOLA! USA | MAY 16, 2023 | Photo Courtesy of Getty Images
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The 11-year-old girl is currently getting her master's degree in Mexico City
Adhara Maite Pérez Sánchez is a Mexican child prodigy who has been found to have a higher intelligence quotient than the renowned physicist Albert Einstein. The 11-year-old girl, who is currently getting her master’s degree in Mexico City, has autism and Asperger’s syndrome. Despite her diagnosis, she boasts an IQ of 162.
Pérez Sánchez also has two degrees in systems and industrial engineering, and her biggest dream is to work for NASA.
According to several publications, Pérez Sánchez wants to contribute to NASA as an engineer and become an astronaut. While she waits for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to make an offer, Adhara is collaborating with the Mexican Space Agency as a STEM ambassador.
Adhara Maite Pérez Sánchez Education Timeline
The Good News Movement informed Pérez finished elementary school at age five, and immediately after, she did four years of high school. Years later, at eleven years old, Pérez enrolled at Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute at the Zacatenco campus. Although the U.S. University of Arizona’s...Read More
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By Alejandra Molina | Los Angeles Times | NOV. 29, 2023
Photo illustration by Diana Ramirez / De Los; Photos by CCNMA
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Decades’ worth of archives of CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California — known as theoldest Latino journalist association in the United States — have been acquired by the USC Libraries.
The organization’s records include 45 archival boxes of photos, artwork, correspondence and other documents tracing the history of CCNMA through the social events and job fairs it hosted as well as the scholarship programs it organized.
Archives span from 1972, the year CCNMA was founded, through more recent activities in the 2010s. As the work of CCNMA continues, the group plans to provide additional materials to the collection.
Efforts to unearth these archives, which were stored and untouched for years in a basement, were led by CCNMA Treasurer Joe Rodriguez, said CCNMA President Laurie Ochoa, the general manager of food coverage and initiatives at the Los Angeles Times.
“It was important for us to secure a home for the archives that would help current and future researchers understand the struggles and triumphs of journalism by and about Latinos as it evolved over the years,” Ochoa said in a statement. “It’s so gratifying that the USC Libraries has provided such a... Read More
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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.
In addition, the CMSC’s Spring and Summer 2024 IDSAP will welcome individual applicants who may be interested in conducting extensive independent research for up to a full semester of study abroad activity with a Multiple Entry Advance Parole Permit. Dreamers or groups interested in this option will develop a CMSC travel-study plan and an IDSAP Special Program contract at a slightly higher cost, in order for the CMSC to facilitate Multiple Entry Advance Parole authorization.
The curriculum for the IDSAP educational program model consists of 2 pre-departure online orientation and travel preparation sessions, a psychological group therapy session, and historical, cultural, linguistic lectures (cátedras) on social movements, the Mexican educational, economic and political systems, with a leadership development focus.
Moreover, selected participants will have the opportunity to participate in online seminars on Chicano Studies and the U.S. Mexican Diaspora, Cultural Arts, Public Policy Planning and Collaboration colloquia related to the California-Mexico and Los Angeles-Mexico City Sister Cities relationship; and the evolving U.S.-Mexico post-NAFTA relationship in the era of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), now under the AMLO and the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administrations.
Program participants will also receive instruction and be provided a unique writing workshop to prepare them for the opportunity to conduct independent travel and ethnographic research on their family origins, which will be applied when they visit their birthplace and families. Most importantly, they will be required to produce a 10-page ethnographic research paper based on their travel-study experience before returning to the US.
A selection of these essays will be published by the CMSC, in subsequent publications similar to our first journal published in January 2023 as Anthology of Dreams from an Impossible Journey, a 380-page bilingual book with 38 selected essays from 215 participants in our Summer 2021 Dreamers Study Abroad Program (DSAP), and offered free to the participants and the general public, educators, students and policy-makers, as exemplary human stories by Dreamers and a worthy resource for research, as script narratives for articles, documentaries, and academic presentations.
On October 21, 2023, Anthology of Dreams from an Impossible Journey received gold and silver medals from the International Latino Book Awards for Best College Level Academic Themed Book in Spanish and Best Cover Design, respectively.
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PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
- To research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility, and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere.
- Establish the administrative framework for a replicable educational program model for Dreamers’ Study Abroad Programs at U.S. colleges and universities, through the DACA-Advance Parole process that U.S. institutions of Higher Education can offer to their students
- Prepare participating Dreamers as ambassadors of the model for them to replicate similar programs at public and private colleges and universities, based on their personal experience.
- Continue and expand video and photo documentation of Dreamers’ human stories.
- Allow Latino and non-Latino Dreamers to conduct independent travel-study and family ethnographic research in their communities of origin, as an integral part of the CMSC’s Mexican Diaspora Studies and Chicano Studies in Mexico initiative.
- Provide Dreamers and Chicanos the opportunity to independently discover their cultural roots in Mexico and reaffirm or define their identity.
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ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
To be eligible for consideration to IDSAP program, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Be 21 years old or older at the time of travel.
- Speak functionally fluent Spanish.
- Applicants whose birth country is not in Latin America will be offered a Special Program package at a higher cost to cover extra costs of translation and interpreting services, travel guides, safe and secure transportation for field trips in Mexico, etc., provided as a custom-designed program model.
- Dreamers must have an active DACA status with an expiration date after July 31, 2024 for the SPRING IDSAP, or after October 31, 2024 for the Summer IDSAP
- Have a valid passport from their respective country of origin. Passport must be active 6 months after June 30, 2024, or after September 30, 2024, for the Spring and Summer 2024 programs respectively.
- If the applicant is Mexican-born, they must commit to applying and attaining the Instituto Nacional Electoral’s Credencial de Elector del Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) before traveling to Mexico. Click here to follow the instructions to apply for an INE Card.
- Must have no major criminal or immigration record with deportable offenses or pending cases that may be deportable violations.
- Must commit to participate in ALL PROGRAM activities.
- All applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have received a ‘booster’ (known as the ‘new COVID-19 vaccination’) within 3 months before departure. Must provide the CMSC with proof of vaccination and booster in order to apply and be considered for any and all IDSAP programs, and required in order to depart from the U.S. No exceptions or exemptions unless otherwise approved by Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, our CMSC President. Note: It is a felony to falsify COVID tests and/or COVID vaccine cards and to do so will lead to immediate termination and forfeiture of all program fees.
- Must test negative for COVID-19, preferably via a lab test, or a self-test, 2 days prior to departure to Mexico (each participant pays for this test).2 days prior to arriving at the Hotel in Mexico City for the academic program (each participant pays for this test).
- Must have at least $1,000 in a bank account to cover the costs of 7 to 10 days for Room and Board at an Airbnb rental, meals and medication, if a COVID infection prevents you from returning to the U.S.
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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 NEW CMSC DOCUMENTARY
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No Mas Sobras, No More Crumbs
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By Yue Stella Yu | Cal Matters | NOV. 16, 2023 | Photo By Zaydee Sanchez
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For six generations since emigrating from Mexico to America, Clarissa Renteria’s family never voted.
If any campaign mailers arrived during election season, Renteria’s parents — who both worked as warehouse workers in Woodlake, an agricultural town of 7,600 in California’s citrus belt — would throw them away. When their neighbor was elected mayor of Woodlake, Renteria’s father shrugged it off. “Look at him trying to fit in,” Renteria remembers her father saying.
“My family just didn’t feel included in the politics, didn’t feel seen,” Renteria, 25, said in an interview at a voter registration event in Tulare. “It was just like: ‘You guys obviously don’t care about me. I don’t care about you, and I’m not going to vote. I’m just going to work to live and that’s it.’”
Lack of engagement is common among millions of eligible Latino Californians who miss out on voting each year. Latinos are the least likely to vote, though they comprise the single largest racial and ethnic group statewide, research shows. They account for just 25% of the state’s likely voters despite making up 36% of the adult population statewide, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
But they could hold the key to the 2024 U.S. Senate race since they’re a voting bloc largely untapped by the leading candidates... Read More
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By Alejandra Molina | Los Angeles Times | NOV. 15, 2023
Photo By Diego M. Radzinschi
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A first-generation Mexican American who worked in the fields with her farmworker parents has been elevated to the largest federal appeals court.
U.S. District Judge Ana de Alba, a California native who was born in Merced, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Monday to serve on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She was confirmed on a 48-43 vote.
Once she takes her oath of office, De Alba — who was nominated by President Joe Biden — will be the fourth Latina woman appointed to the court.
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said her path to confirmation “embodies the American Dream,” adding that, “she has more than proven herself as the public servant Americans deserve on the Ninth Circuit.”
“Judge de Alba is dedicated, fair, and universally respected by her colleagues,” Padilla said in a statement.
De Alba earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. She spent a big part of her career with Lang, Richert & Patch in Fresno, where she worked until 2018 and focused on employment and construction cases.
In 2022, she became the first Latina to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Prior to that, she served as a California Superior Court judge in Fresno County.
De Alba has been lauded for her pro bono work and for establishing a Workers’ Rights Clinic that provides low-income and unemployed people free information about their legal rights related to work in California...Read More
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By Editorial Board | Los Angeles Times | DEC. 1, 2023 | Photo By Wally Skalij
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Two years ago, Long Beach City College officials decided they had to do something to help homeless students who lived out of their cars, at least until it could find housing for them. So the school set up a safe parking program.
The program lets students stay in their vehicles from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. in a parking structure across from the campus’ public safety building, with easy access to the security staff. The gate to the structure is locked after 10 p.m. so that no outsiders can enter to harass or steal from the overnight residents. Any student, even one taking a single class, qualifies for an overnight permit.
No one thinks that permission to sleep in a car is the ultimate solution to unaffordable housing. But a 2020 study by UCLA found that one in five community college students had experienced homelessness at some point in the previous year. Overnight parking provides at least temporary support for homeless students, many of whom are juggling jobs with their course loads.
The Long Beach program hands out inflatable mattresses for students to use in their vehicles, personal hygiene products and gift cards for purchasing food. Students have access to Wi-Fi, laundry, a bathroom and showers in the athletic building. And it’s costing the college less than $80,000 a year. There have been no significant disciplinary or safety problems, said Mike Muñoz, the college’s superintendent-president.
Sounds pretty simple and inexpensive. In a state where housing costs are high and many students are in financial need, you’d think programs like LBCC’s would be widely copied. Instead, it is a rarity...Read More
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By Maison Tran | Long Beach Post | NOV. 18, 2023 | Photo By Thomas R. Cordova
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Cal State Long Beach will launch its Equitable Textbook Access (ETA) program next fall, in an effort to make class materials more affordable for all students by providing them access to all their textbooks for one flat rate per semester.
Students will be charged a fee at the beginning of each semester before classes begin, currently estimated at $250 for full-time students and $165 for part-time, which can be covered by financial aid.
The program will deliver all needed textbooks and materials digitally via Canvas, the online student portal, before the first day of classes. Textbooks will move with students as classes are added and dropped.
Students can also pick up physical copies of books at the University Bookstore if the print version is available and the digital version is not...Read More
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WHO IS CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM PARDO?
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CLAUDIA : EL DOCUMENTAL
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Por Elisa Villa Roman | El Pais | NOV. 20, 2023 | Foto Por Jose Luis Gonzalez
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Se estima que el proceso electoral 2023-2024 sera el mas grande que ha tenido Mexico con la celebracion de las elecciones federales, y a nivel local, en los 32 Estados
Este lunes marca el inicio del periodo de precampañas electorales que concluirá en enero de 2024. La fecha original sufrió una modificación a inicios de octubre, en atención a una sentencia del Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF) que ordenó al Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) cambiar el día de inicio de las precampañas, un ajuste que además supuso una reducción en los plazos de fiscalización para los partidos políticos.
El acuerdo, aprobado por mayoría de votos, indica que con la determinación del periodo de precampañas —que considera un límite máximo establecido de 60 días— se maximiza la protección de los derechos de los partidos políticos nacionales y las coaliciones, respetando el plazo que estos tienen para tomar decisiones y cumplir con sus obligaciones. Así, el inicio de las precampañas de cara a las Elecciones 2024 en México iniciará durante la tercera semana de noviembre, y no el día 5 como inicialmente se había previsto.
¿Cómo Queda El Calendario Electoral?
Durante las Elecciones de 2024 se elegirán un total de 629 cargos a nivel federal. Tras el ajuste en las fechas de inicio y término de las precampañas, el calendario del proceso electoral para las 128 senadurías, 500 diputaciones federales y la presidencia de la república queda de la siguiente...Read More
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Por La Opinion | La Opinion | DEC. 4, 2023 | Foto Cortesia de Redes Sociales de Sheinbaum
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Claudia Sheinbaum es la precandidata que más buenas opiniones despierta de cara a los comicios de 2024 en México para sustituir a Andrés Manuel López Obrador
La precandidata presidencial del oficialismo de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, lidera con el 46% de los apoyos la encuesta publicada este lunes por el periódico Reforma, la primera del diario elaborada con los tres aspirantes formalizados por sus partidos, antes de que Samuel García renunciara a la candidatura por Movimiento Ciudadano.
Sheinbaum está 21 puntos por encima de la precandidata de la alianza opositora Fuerza y Corazón por México, Xóchitl Gálvez (25 %), y 32 sobre el perfil de Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), Samuel García (14 %), según el sondeo, que se realizó entre el 22 y el 28 de noviembre entre 1,000 adultos.
En la anterior encuesta de Reforma, en agosto, la aspirante del gobernante Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) se situaba con el 44 % de las preferencias, a una distancia de 17 puntos porcentuales respecto de Gálvez, quien era la opción elegida por el 27 %.
La encuesta le dio entonces a García, gobernador del estado norteño de Nuevo León y quien hasta el sábado era el precandidato presidencial de Movimiento Ciudadano, el 12% de los votos.
Sheinbaum es la precandidata que más buenas opiniones despierta, con un balance positivo entre el 49% de los encuestados... Read More
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By Rebecca Sun | The Hollywood Reporter | NOV. 6, 2023 | Photo Courtesy of LatinX Representation
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Movies with Latino leads also routinely receive lower production and marketing budgets, despite making jusy as much at the box office and earning higher Metacritic scores than their non-Latino-led counterparts
Latinos are the second largest racial/ethnic group (behind non-Hispanic white people) in the United States, accounting for about half of the nation’s population growth over the past two decades. Nineteen percent of Americans (62.1 million) are Latino – not that you could tell by watching American movies.
According to the latest study from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, just 5.5% of speaking characters on the big screen are Hispanic or Latino – a proportion that has not significantly changed in the past 16 years, even as the U.S. Hispanic population grew 23% just in the past decade. Even fewer – 4.4% – were leads or co-leads (less than 1%, or 8 actors total, were Afro-Latino), and 2.6% were born in the United States. Only four U.S.-born Latinos starred in more than one movie since 2007 (none were men); the actor with the most lead roles was Cameron Diaz, a white Latina who retired about a decade ago.
AI2’s study, sponsored by McDonald’s, is its third deep dive into Hispanic and Latino representation in the movies, examining the 100 highest-grossing movies every year from 2007 to 2022. Looking at distribution, the researchers found that there wasn’t a single year in which all six major studios, plus Lionsgate, released at least one Latino-led film, with Warner Bros. releasing just three total in 16 years. “This is soul crushing for this community, as Latinos represent 49% of Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world,” the researchers wrote.
Further exploring Hollywood’s business decisions when it comes to Latinos, the study compared the production and marketing spends as well as the distribution size of movies starring Latinos versus non-Latinos. Among the 126 movies with solo protagonists from the past two years, researchers found that the former received fewer financial support than the latter,..Read More
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By Carlos Aguilar | Los Angeles Times | NOV. 27, 2023 | Photo Courtesy of Beacon Pictures
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Most weekends you can find Ezekiel Pacheco working at JK Snack Shop in Watts. His parents, Ezequiel Pacheco and Veronica Morales, started the small business, dishing out everything from biónicos to hot food, after years working as paleteros on the streets of Los Angeles.
But over the last two weeks, Pacheco, 26, has been busy with a different passion project: promoting the thriller “At the Gates,” the first feature from writer-director Augustus Bernstein, where he stars in a bilingual role as a young unauthorized immigrant hiding from Immigration and Customs Enforcement with his housekeeper mother inside the home of her wealthy white employers.
“I’ve gone from selling ice cream, to cooking chicken with my family — and I’m still working with them to this day — to now making movies and being a lead,” Pacheco said during a recent video interview from New York City, where he was for the film’s theatrical release.
A Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient from a humble background, Pacheco’s story bears striking resemblance to that of Nico, his character in “At the Gates.” Born in Ayutla de los Libres, a town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, Pacheco was brought to the U.S. at the age of 1. Having only known Watts as his home, learning of his unauthorized status...Read More
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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
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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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