REMINDER: OUR DELEGATION WILL MEET AT 10:00 A.M THIS SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2022 AT OLYMPIC & BROADWAY.
The California-Mexico Studies Center is mobilizing a contingent of Dreamers to participate in this year‘s May Day march in Downtown Los Angeles to promote our Campaign for a Presidential Pardon for all undocumented immigrants in the United States and the parents of US-citizen children that were forced into exile in Mexico and Central America because of the deportation of their parents.
Please join our movement and share this post to mobilize as many people as possible in Southern California and anywhere where there may be May Day marches organized this year. OUR DELEGATION WILL BE MEETING UP AT APPX. 10:00 A.M on MAY 1st immediately before the rally at OLYMPIC & BROADWAY! Parking will be scarce so we encourage you to take public transportation/ride-share services and carpool if possible.
Especially for those of you in the Southern California area, we plan to participate and we are organizing a CMSC delegation for May Day with different activities throughout the day and we hope you can join us !!!
We already have a banner and T-shirts printed for the first 50 participants that join our delegation and we hope to motivate everyone to join a May Day march nearby, if you cannot join us at the LA march.
This is another great way to stay connected but ultimately to continue advocating for our rights and for a path towards citizenship for all.
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By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | APR. 27, 2022 | Photo by Tomas Ovalle
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BAKERSFIELD — Thirty years ago, Eduardo Cañedo Vela was the manager at a Japanese restaurant in Bakersfield and hoped to one day open a place of his own.
A Mexican immigrant, he had two small daughters and a son on the way.
At home in the small Central Valley city of Arvin, he cooked all the meals, helped to change diapers and even combed his little girls’ hair.
“If anyone ever needed something, they’d go to him,” his wife, Rosa Bañuelos Ortiz, said recently.
That’s what a friend did when he asked Cañedo for a ride to Los Angeles to cash a tax refund on April 29, 1992.
Cañedo, 33, knew nothing about Rodney King. He had no clue that a jury was about to acquit the four Los Angeles police officers who savagely beat King a year earlier, or that simmering racial and economic tensions were going to explode into some of the worst civil unrest in American history.
He figured it might be fun to make a quick trip back to the city where he had once lived.
Bañuelos agreed. Yet something pulled at her just before her husband left. “I suddenly thought,” she said, “that I’d never see him again.”
She asked to accompany him, and he demurred — it was too far for the girls. Besides, he promised to return that night.
Her premonition proved right.
As the violence began to escalate across South L.A., Cañedo was shot dead in his Ford Taurus.
He had been having nightmares about that very thing — being somewhere unfamiliar, a stranger approaching with a gun and pulling the trigger.
“If I had gone,” Bañuelos said quietly as her daughters, now grown, looked on, “none of that would’ve happened... READ MORE |
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By Frank Shyong | Los Angeles Times | APR. 27, 2022 | Photo by Hyungwon Kang
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“What are you doing down here?”
The year was 2017, and I was at the intersection of Manchester and South Normandie avenues, where the Los Angeles riots had raged a quarter century before. I was explaining to a local pastor that I was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times doing a story on a restaurant chain.
I’m a journalist, I responded, here to write a story for the newspaper.
“Yeah, I heard you. But what are you doing down here?” he repeated, a little more loudly this time. “Aren’t you scared? You people don’t usually come down here.”
His tone was brusque but not hostile. We kept talking, and it became clear he wasn’t referring just to the L.A. Times but to the fact that I am Asian American. He relaxed visibly when I explained that I am not Korean.
I did not experience the Los Angeles riots, but I have covered race and ethnicity for this paper for a decade. With a face that many mistake for Korean, I have come to know the aftermath.
The Black-Korean conflict was an enduring storyline during the violence that erupted in 1992 after four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. It was a palatable narrative of racial conflict in which white racism was not directly implicated... READ MORE |
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By Irene Sanchez | Huffington Post | MAR. 2, 2018 | Photo by David McNew
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Latino students must know about their history to push back against the narratives that limit them.
**This story was originally published back in 2018
History repeats itself. I often tell my students this when I teach Latino studies every day at three different high schools in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. Latino studies is a fairly new class in a district where 92 percent of students are Latino, many of Mexican descent. Yet there are still those who would say that classes like these don’t belong in our schools.
An important history lesson I give my students is about the East Los Angeles walkouts of 1968. Fifty years ago, Mexican-American students were fed up with unequal conditions of their schools, including high push-out rates, racist and discriminatory attitudes or practices of school staff, not being reflected in the school curriculum and being tracked into vocational and special education classes. From March 1 to March 8, more than 15,000 students walked out of five high schools: Belmont, Garfield, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wilson. They sparked a larger movement across the Southwest and... READ MORE
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A TRIBUTE TO 50 YEARS OF STRUGGLE & SACRIFICE FOR LA RAZA
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By Herman Baca, President - Committe on Chicano Rights
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The passing of Armando Navarro, Chicano activist, community organizer, author, historian, scholar, political scientist & professor of ethnic studies at the University of California-Riverside has left the Chicano/Mexicano/Latino people with an immense historical loss that will not soon be replaced.
As is the custom of our people, our deepest & most sincere condolences to Maria Ana Gonzales (his wife & compañera in struggle), La Familia Navarro & everyone that knew Armando. Personally speaking, Armando was a dear friend, compatriot & fellow Chicano activist. I first met Armando in 1970 when the both of us were with MAPA, i.e. Mexican American Political Association.
Armando was the chairperson of MAPA from the small, poor farmworker community of Cucamonga where he was raised & me the chairperson of MAPA from the poorest city in San Diego County, National City. After receiving the phone call that Armando had passed, I started to reminisce & remember telling Armando, “I think you’re the happiest when you’re playing your trumpet & confronting White Supremacists to kick their ass,” we both laughed.
Soon after, I began to think of the reality that with Armando’s passing, once again I remembered, “An era is slowly, but surely coming to an end.”
Meaning, the era for those of us who became involved in the Chicano Movement in the late 60’s & 1970’s to agitate for systemic social, economic & political change for La Raza. In my 50 plus years of political involvement, I got to know Armando both personally & politically... READ MORE
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By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | APR. 27, 2022 | Photo from Imgur
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With his burly build, close-cropped hair, eternal smirk and laconic voice, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has spent his first term trying to present himself as a lonely hero thanklessly taking on societal ills.
He certainly plays the role by consistently blasting the weak-willed politicians and yellow-bellied “wokeism” that, he recently declared at a forum with other county sheriffs, are keeping Los Angeles from being “liveable.”
There’s just one giant stumbling block that keeps Villanueva from even starting his tough-on-crime mission.
Villanueva.
This is a man whose job as head of the largest sheriff’s department in the United States is supposed to be about protecting L.A. County from bad hombres. Instead, Villanueva has spent most of his time defending his department with the bluster of a lesser John Wayne character and a skin thinner than tulle.
This year alone, he sent the L.A. County Board of Supervisors a cease-and-desist letterdemanding that they not refer to the deputy gangs that plague his department as, well, gangs, because the term is supposedly racist and demeans the more than 50% of his deputies who are Latino. He is threatening to pull his forces from patrolling L.A. Metrobecause the agency doesn’t want to give him an exclusive contract.
He spent most of an hourlong conversation with me last month railing against unflattering photos of him published by this paper and the supposedly excessive number of Black division chiefs in the Sheriff’s Department’s past. He then claimed in a social media post that he was refusing to meet with the L.A. Times editorial board to seek their endorsement … right around the time he was meeting with them. (The board didn’t endorse him).
None of those moves put a single criminal behind bars or improved public safety — you know, the job that a majority of L.A. County voters asked Villanueva to do when they elected him in 2018. Instead, we’ve seen an administration of tantrums unworthy of a preschooler denied their “Peppa Pig.” And he just went through his worst one yet... READ MORE
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By Eugene Daniels and Laura Barron-Lopez | POLITICO | APR. 26, 2022 | Photo by John Moore for Getty
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The Biden administration said on Tuesday that it will comply with an expected court order from a Louisiana judge that would block the lifting of Title 42, a Trump-era deportation policy used to expel more than one million migrants at the Southern border.
The administration had announced that it would end the use of Title 42, a public health order, by May 23. But a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana announced on Monday that he would side with Republican states to keep the order preserved barring some agreement being reached between them and the administration.
“If and when the court issues the TRO [temporary restraining order] the department is planning to comply with that order,” a senior administration official said on a call with reporters Tuesday, announcing the administration’s detailed plan for after Title 42 is lifted... READ MORE
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By Araceli Martinez Ortega | La Opinion | APR. 12, 2022
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The Mexican government launched the Remittances Paisanos card that will allow the families of countrymen to receive money from remittances through the telegraph service with zero fees to pay when receiving them.
"For the benefit of families, we developed the Telecomm card with Broxel (a leading Mexican company in transactional technology), so that in that way they can receive their money; and those who like to receive cash will also have that option," said the general director of Telecommunications of Mexico, Rocío Mejía Flores.
It is part of an agreement between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Telecommunications of Mexico (Telecomm-Telégrafos).
Telecomm's Paisano Remittances card is a debit card that will make sending and receiving remittances from the United States to Mexico more agile, transparent and safer.
The announcement was made in Mexico City by Mejía Flores and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard after the signing of the... READ MORE
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By Kristina Garcia | Los Angeles Times | APR. 26, 2022 | Photo by Adali Schell
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A year ago, 15-year-old Yahritza Martinez was playing soccer for A.C. Davis High School in Yakima, Wash. When she wasn’t on the pitch, she and her four brothers and sisters would wake up early in the morning to help their father pick fruit in the Yakima Valley.
Today, Yahritza, singer, songwriter and guitarist for her sibling trio Yahritza y Su Esencia (Yahritza and Her Essence), are at the SoHo House in downtown Los Angeles, to promote the release of their debut EP, “Obsessed,” which immediately became the No. 1 Latin album on Apple Music.
In mid-February, a snippet of Yahritza y Su Esencia’s breakup ballad “Soy El Unico,” written by a 13-year-old Yahritza, went viral on TikTok. After the song was released by their label Lumbre Music, it flew to the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart and crashed the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 20, making Yahritza the youngest Latin performer to... READ MORE
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Centro CHA Community Update
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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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