Michi And Walter Weglyn Endowed Chair Of Multicultural Studies
Prior speaking engagments and events.
For more information, contact Enrique Ochoa at ecochoa@csupomona.edu or (909) 869-3115
Local artist and activist will share a special spoken word performance and discussion of modern society, its contradictions, and examples of rebellions in the midst of corporate globalization. He will discuss his year in Zapatista territory and how it influenced his album, “Semillas Rebeldes.”
Date: April 3, 2007 10:00 am - 12:00 (noon)
Location: Cal Poly Pomona Bronco Student Center - Ursa Minor
Also screening “North Korea: Beyond the DMZ” (2003) in collaboration with International Center Conference - 4/13/07
Date: April 12, 2007 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Cal Poly Pomona Music Recital Hall
CSU graduates will share their experiences in various graduate programs. The personal, academic, and political aspect of graduate study will be addressed.
Date: April 12, 2007 12:00 (noon) - 1:00 pm
Location: Cal Poly Pomona Building 5 Room 106
With the end of slavery, Asian immigrants became a source of low wage labor for the Americas. Hear about the experiences of Asians from Latin America, the history of immigration from parts of Asia to Latin American countries, the impact of Japanese American internment, and later immigration to the U.S.
Co-sponsors: César E. Chávez Center for Higher Education
and the Weglyn Chair for Multicultural Studies
Date: April 17, 2007 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Cal Poly Pomona Bronco Student Center - Ursa Major AB
In conjunction with the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations, this event will examine the intersections of African American and Latino/a relation in the Pomona region. Panelists will range from community activists, academics, and students.
Date: May 29, 2007 10:00 am - 12:00 (noon)
Location: Cal Poly Pomona Bronco Student Center - Ursa Major Room AB
Speaker: John Ross, Author and Freelance Reporter
John Ross, a Mexico-based freelance reporter and author of several books on Mexico, will discuss the neoliberal transformation of the Mexican countryside and its impact on indigenous communities. Ross will focus on how communities have responded to the introduction of transgenic maize and what this struggle means for indigenous Mexico and for maize.
Date: October, 31—10:00-11:30 am
Location: Cal Poly Bronco Student Center-Centarus
Speakers:
This panel will explore capitalist globalization, its impact on the global food distribution, and community struggles for food security. The panelists have all been engaged in the struggle for food security from different vantage points and will provide insights into this struggle.
Date: November 16—10:00-12:00
Location: Cal Poly Bronco Student Center-Ursa Major A
The film explores the impact of globalization on Mexican migration and how it has impacted the women of the Bajio region of Mexico. It show how women in one community have worked together to develop a micro-economic enterprise that has resuscitated the market for traditional sweets.
Date: November 28-10am-12:00pm
Location: Cal Poly Bronco Student Center-Ursa Major C
A Panel Discussion with the Parents of First Lt. Ehren Watada, the First Commissioned Officer to Refuse Deployment to Iraq.
When: Tuesday October 17
Time: 1:00 - 2:50 PM
Where: Bronco Student Center Ursa Major B
For more information contact:
Enrique Ochoa at ecochoa@csupomona.edu or 909-869-3115
Who "belongs" in this country and who doesn't? WHEELS explores immigration, xenophobia, and the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship through the eyes of Oscar, a 15 1/2 year old Salvadoran-American youth and the people he encounters on his first journey through the maze of the DMV.
Oscar is a young man on the move. WHEELS tells the story of Oscar's first steps toward independence, as he steps off the bus and into the Department of Motor Vehicles. In pursuit of his learner's permit and ultimately his driver's license, Oscar encounters a range of perspectives on freedom, mobility, and the dreams and realities associated with U.S. citizenship.
Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center
in the Pomona Arts Colony
300 W Second St., Pomona
Friday, May 5th, 2006
7:00 P.M.
Sponsored by the Michi and Walter Weglyn Endowed Chair of Multicultural Studies, Pomona Advocates for Communication and Trust (P.A.C.T.), and the Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center
ENCOMPASS ...To spark compassion, personal responsibility, and an appreciation of differences among California teenagers.
Compassion Plays, a program of ENCOMPASS, offers an opportunity for connections across barriers of difference.
For more information or to reserve your seat please contact Jonnie Owens, Community Outreach Coordinator at 909.869.4689 or jjowens@csupomona.edu
(Please RSVP - Limited Seating Available!)
Three women leaders will provided a panel discussion on "Women in Movements" on Thursday, March 30, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Bronco Student Center's Ursa Minor Room. They addressed women in the civil rights, farm workers and labor union movements with the goal of promoting human rights and dignity.
The panel included the following speakers:
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers and founder of the Huerta Foundation. The foundation's mission is to focus on community organizing and leadership training in low-income, under-represented communities.
Margaret Prescod, host of KPFK (90.7 FM) radio show "Sojourner Truth," co-founder of Women's Global Strike; United Nations representative for the Category 2 Non-Governmental Organizations, Women in Dialogue. Prescod co-coordinates the Every Mother Is a Working Mother Network, a national, multiracial grassroots network campaigning to establish that raising children is work.
Jessica Kim, development coordinator at Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance. Her interest in labor grew out of student activism. She also worked with the organizing director at the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and was a research assistant at UCLAs Labor Center.
"Women in Movements" was co-sponsored by The Michi & Walter Weglyn Endowed Chair for Multicultural Studies, The ReEntry & Women's Center, Asian & Pacific Islander Student Center and Cesar E. Chavez Center for Higher Education. The event was free and open to the public, and was at the end of Women's Herstory Month and a day before Cesar E. Chavez Day.
For more information, contact Jose Calderon, the Weglyn Endowed Chair for Multicultural Studies, at (909) 869-3524 or by e-mail at jzcalderon@csupomona.edu.
The Michi and Walter Weglyn Endowed Chair for Multicultural Studies (in collaboration with the PRIDE Center and the Civil Rights Legacy Coalition) sponsored a panel of speakers on the issues of same sex marriage and fair immigration policies on Wednesday, February 15 from 4 – 6 p. m. in the Bronco Student Center Ursa Major C.
The speakers included:
Christine Chavez – the Southern California Political Director for the United Farm Workers, the granddaughter of Cesar Chavez, candidate for the 2006 California State Assembly 45th District, and the coordinator of the annual Cesar Chavez Walk (which attracts more than 10,000 people).
Victor Narro – the Project Director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, the former Co-Executive Director of Sweatshop Watch, and former Worker’s Rights Project Director for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA). Narro worked with Sweatshop Watch, KIWA, and APAL to create the Garment worker Center in Downtown Los Angeles. His organizing efforts led to the creation of the Multi-ethnic Immigrant Worker’s Organizing Network and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. He received a law degree from the University of Richmond, Virginia in 1991. His prior work experience includes the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Central Virginia Legal Aid Society. He serves on the board of the Popular Education Institute of Southern California, L. A. Center for Law, and the L. A. Chapter of the National Lawyer’s Guild.
Marshall Wong – the Senior Human Relations Consultant and Hate Crime Coordinator with the L. A. County Human Relations Commission. He serves on the steering committee of API Equality – L. A., a coalition working in the Asian Pacific community to advance marriage equality for same sex couples. Previously, he held positions with the Smithsonian Institute and the Mayor’s office in Washington, D. C. He was a Fellow in the Kellogg National Leadership Program and received a Community Service Award from the National Multicultural Institute, the Abacus Award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and the Mayor’s Distinguished Service Award from the District of Columbia. He received his B. A. in Sociology and his Master of Social Welfare from UCLA. Recently, Marshall co-authored, “Organizing in Communities of Color: Addressing Inter-Ethnic Conflicts in Social Justice and has written articles for the Washington Times and Asian Week. In 2004, the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California published a biography he wrote about his father Delbert Wong, the nation’s first Chinese American Judge.
The Michi and Walter Weglyn Endowed Chair of Multicultural Studies presented a panel, "Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: New Dimensions of Race in America" on Monday, November 14, from 2-4 p. m. at the Cal State University Pomona Bronco Student Center, Ursa Minor. The panel based on a book that the panel participants have co-authored will explore various themes related to the pursuit of racial equality and justice including: the black-white paradigm versus multiculturalism; diversity versus racial justice; universal versus particular strategies; national versus local responsibility; and structural factors versus individual initiative.
The panel, with a purpose of developing a much-needed conversation on framing new policies for addressing racial inequity, includes:
Angela Glover Blackwell - is the founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink, a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity-building, and advocacy organization. PolicyLink is committed to a mission of advancing a new generation of policies to achieve economic and social equity, based on the wisdom, voice, and experience of local leaders who are shaping successful solutions to national problems. She is a frequent guest in the media and her appearances include ABC's Nightline and National public Radio. She has been published in the opinion pages of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Stewart Kwoh - is the President and Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California. Under Kwoh's leadership, the APALC has become the largest and most diverse legal assistance and civil rights organization targeting Asian Pacific Americans in the United States. As a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he is the first Asian American attorney to receive this prestigious award, often referred to as a "genius grant." In a front page article of the L. A. Times, he has been described as one of the nation's premier advocates for Asian Americans and as a bridge builder bringing people together from diverse racial backgrounds.
Dr. Manuel Pastor - is a Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research on Latin American issues has been published in numerous journals such as International Organization and Journal of Latin American Studies. His research on U. S. Urban issues has been published in such journals as Economic Development Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, and Urban Geography. He co-authored Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together and co-edited a collection of essays entitled Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California.
For more information, contact Dr. Jose Calderon at 909/869-3524 or by e-mail at jzcalderon@csupomona.edu
