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El Magonista | Vol. 12, No. 11 | Apr.
29, 2024
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Celebrate
May Day and Peter Schey’s Legacy
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By Professor Gonzalo Santos | May 1, 2024 | Photo
Courtesy of Professor Gonzalo Santos
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Seven
years ago, in 2017, about a thousand folks marched & rallied
in downtown Bakersfield on May Day, as far as I know the first -
and only - time folks in this town proudly celebrated
International Workers Day as such.
Most local unions and community-advocacy organizations declined
to participate, but a highly-motivated and diverse group of
activists responded favorably. The event was a great success.
Hundreds marched around downtown Bakersfield, held a festive
rally in Mill Creek park, and got great media coverage. A huge
front page picture and story appeared on The Bakersfield
Californian the next day.
The points of unity agreed upon by the organizers - see below -
reflected a welcome intersectionality among them. This reflected
a broadening of the meaning of the celebration from the earlier
immigrant marches of 2006, which culminated with the May Day
National Boycott for Immigrant Rights, when over two million
immigrants and their allies marched in over 130 cities across the
country - a stunning resurrection of May Day from the decades of
oblivion during the Cold War. About 35,000 immigrants rallied in
Bakersfield that May Day – the largest rally ever in the city’s
history. Read More
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By Andrea Castillo | Los Angeles Times | Apr. 3,
2024 | Photo Courtesy of Los Angeles Times
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Peter
Schey, who championed the rights of immigrants over decades as a
Los Angeles attorney and led the case that overturned Proposition
187, the controversial initiative to deny government services to
undocumented immigrants, died of complications from lymphoma
Tuesday at age 77.
Schey, the founder and executive director of the Center for Human
Rights and Constitutional Law, led class-action cases on behalf
of immigrants involving access to public education, medical care
and the welfare of unaccompanied minors.
Born in South Africa to parents who fled Germany — his father was
a Jewish anti-Nazi agitator — Schey moved to San Francisco as a
teenager with his parents when they packed up during apartheid.
He attended UC Berkeley and the California Western School of Law
in San Diego.
After obtaining his law degree, Schey represented low-income
immigrants at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego. In 1978, he
founded the first national support center dedicated to protecting
immigrant rights, now known as the National Immigration Law Center.
Read More.
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By Lajward Zahra | The Nation | Apr. 24, 2024 |
Photo Courtesy of Nathan Posner
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Around 80 percent of
the nearly 120,000 undocumented students who graduated high
school in 2023 don’t qualify for DACA.
At age 15, Luis came to the United States from Veracruz, Mexico.
Today, he’s a 22-year-old senior at Rice University, studying
math and planning to go to graduate school next fall.
His grandparents are US citizens, and his mom has applied for a
green card. Since Luis was brought into the US as a minor, you
might think he qualifies for Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA), which shields young adults who arrived in the US
as children from being deported, offering them work authorization
along with temporary and renewable legal status. “I checked all
the boxes, except for one,” said Luis, “which is that you have to
have been here since 2007.”
Around 80 percent of the nearly 120,000 undocumented students who
graduated high school in 2023 do not qualify for DACA, and even
fewer undocumented high school graduates will qualify this
spring. Yet nearly three-fourths of Americans are in favor of “granting
permanent legal status to immigrants who came to the US illegally
as children.” Despite its popularity, when Obama tried to update
the program to include those who had been present in the US since
2010, it was challenged in court by Texas and 25 other states,
arguing that it was an overstep of presidential authority. In
2016, the Supreme Court upheld this view, leading to the Obama
administration rescinding the update. Read More.
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WATCH THE CMSC DOCUMENTARY
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No Mas Sobras, No More Crumbs
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By Tom K. Wong, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, Diana
Pliego | American Progress | Mar. 25, 2024
Photo Courtesy of Sheila Fitzgerald
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The ninth annual
survey of DACA recipients illustrates DACA’s role in empowering
individuals and communities while strengthening the U.S. economy
and highlights the need for a pathway to citizenship.
Since 2012, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has
served as a beacon of hope for more than 835,000 undocumented
immigrants who call the United States home. DACA has transformed
their lives, instilling in them a newfound sense of security and possibility.
It has empowered recipients to live without fear of deportation,
to work with dignity, and to pursue their dreams while making
significant contributions to their local economies and the
broader U.S. economy. Despite these benefits, however, DACA
remains under relentless legal and political threat. And it
currently faces its biggest challenge yet: a continuing legal
battle over its existence, as Republican attorneys general from
Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska,
South Carolina, and West Virginia sue the federal government
seeking DACA’s end, plunging recipients into uncertainty and
legal limbo.
From October 1, 2023, to January 3, 2024, Tom K. Wong of the U.S.
Immigration Policy Center at the University of California, San
Diego, partnered with United We Dream, the National Immigration
Law Center, and the Center for American Progress to field a
national survey to analyze the experiences of DACA recipients.
This is the ninth consecutive year that these organizations have
conducted this survey, which includes responses from 560
recipients across 43 states and Washington, D.C. Read More.
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Travel
- Study in Mexico during our Fall & Winter Programs
from 1 week or up to 3 months!
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Given
the tenuous future of DACA, the CMSC has decided to create
the Fall 2024 and Winter 2025
Independent Dreamers Study Abroad Programs (IDSAP) in
order to offer a broader and a more flexible travel-study
opportunity for Dreamers in Mexico and other countries of origin
from October 15, 2024 to January 15,
2025 for the Fall Program and December 1, 2024 to February 28,
2025 for the Winter 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 Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 Independent Dreamers
Study Abroad Programs (IDSAP) have 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 Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 Independent Dreamers
Study Abroad Programs (IDSAP) are 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... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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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 3 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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Wait Until Fall 2024
or Winter 2025?
Apply Now for
Summer 2024
Deadline to Apply for
Summer 2024:
May 15th, 2024
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Please take into
consideration that the Advance Parole application approval
process time can vary from 3 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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Por Armando Hernandez | La Opinion | Apr. 4,
2024 | Foto Cortesia de Jessica Hill
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Según el análisis,
latinos están reescribiendo el sueño americano, no sólo por la
derrama económica, sino por el potencial motor de empleo en los
últimos años.
La Iniciativa de Emprendimiento Latino de Stanford (SLEI) y
la Red de Acción Empresarial Latina (LBAN) publicaron el noveno
Informe anual sobre el estado del emprendimiento latino, señalándolo
como el segmento de más rápido crecimiento de la población
empresarial de los Estados Unidos.
Según
los resultados, cerca de uno de cada cuatro nuevos negocios es de
dueños latinos y existen casi 5 millones de negocios de dueños
latinos en los Estados Unidos.
Además,
señala que las empresas de propiedad latina
(LOB) son un gigante que genera $3.2 billones en impacto
económico y emplea a millones de personas.
De
forma general, el informe explora el crecimiento explosivo de las
LOB destaca avances significativos en varios aspectos del
emprendimiento latino en Estados Unidos, en particular en
crecimiento, innovación y diversidad. La contribución económica
sustancial de la comunidad latina y el panorama empresarial en
expansión subrayan su papel vital en la economía nacional.
No
obstante, asegura que persisten desafíos,
particularmente para las empresas propiedad de latinas, las
empresas centradas en la tecnología y los propietarios de
empresas inmigrantes, que enfrentan problemas
como menores ingresos, dificultades financieras y barreras a los
mercados gubernamentales y corporativos. Read More.
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By Andre Mouchard | OC Register | Apr. 17, 2024 |
Photo Courtesy of Mindy Schauer
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Government soon will
view Latino as a race, not an ethnicity. Same for Middle Eastern
and North African and South Asian. Data suggests our region could
be affected more than anyplace in the country.
It’ll
be just one short answer on one government form, a few jots that
figure to have only a limited impact on any individual’s
day-to-day life.
But for Neda Sasani, 44, merely having the chance to respond to
one of the new race options on the 2030 census is life-altering.
“I’m a lot of things,” Sasani said before rapidly clicking off
several personal traits – a mother of two, an operating room
nurse, an Iranian-American, a resident of Pasadena, a new and
“very enthusiastic” pickleball player.
“But I’m not White.”
Nope. And the next census won’t force her to say she is.
The Office of Management and Budget, which runs the U.S. Census
Bureau, announced in March that for the first time in 27 years it
will make some fundamental changes in the way Americans can
identify their racial and ethnic identities.
Specifically, the 2030 Census (and census-related surveys leading
up to it) will include seven broad categories for race: White,
Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, American
Indian or Alaska Native, Middle Eastern or North African, and
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. That’s up from five
categories offered in previous censuses. Read More.
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FWD Staff Writer | FWD.us | Feb. 8th, 2024 | Photo
Courtesy of Molly Adams
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If
you own or work for a business that employs, or wants to employ,
individuals who have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA), there are steps that you may be able to take to help some
of your DACA employees secure their immigration status.
This guide outlines five ways to support current and potential
employees with DACA, like sponsoring them for a visa or helping
them access immigration services. We strongly suggest that all
DACA recipients receive a legal consultation to determine the best
path for them to move forward and how their employer may be able
to support them.
For more than a decade, DACA has provided temporary protection
from deportation and authorization to work to hundreds of
thousands of Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who came to the
United States at a young age. However, DACA faces dire legal
threats that could lead the Supreme Court to strip DACA
recipients of their protections and work authorizations within
the next two years. If DACA ends, the 580,000 current DACA recipients
will be forced out of their jobs and be exposed to the threat of
deportation.
DACA recipients need your help now. As an employer, you are in a
unique position to support your DACA employees. Read More.
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Por Araceli Martinez Ortega | La Opinion | Apr.
15, 2024 | Foto Cortesia de Jacquelyn Martin
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El funcionario
federal, hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos podría dejar el gabinete
del presidente Biden para competir por el máximo cargo
Como
ya se veía venir, el secretario de salud y servicios humanos,
Xavier Becerra podría competir para gobernador de California en
el 2027. Esta semana, varios medios incluso internacionales
revelaron que el nativo de Sacramento podría dejar su cargo en Washington
después de la elección de noviembre y unirse a la repleta
cartelera para suceder al gobernador Gavin Newsom en dos años.
La entrada a la contienda de Becerra, de 66 años, le pondría el
ingrediente latino a la contienda en un estado como California,
con casi 40% de la población latina.
Hasta este momento, van apuntados la vicegobernadora Eleni
Kounalakis, el superintendente de educación, Tony Thurmond, la
excontralora Betty Yee, y se presume que Rob Bonta, el fiscal
está a punto también de lanzarse tras la gubernatura.
Becerra ha sido asambleísta, congresista, fiscal de California y
el primer latino secretario de salud y recursos humanos; y
mantiene una trayectoria lo suficiente buena como para poder
ganar; es más, tiene una experiencia superior a todos los que ya
anunciaron que quieren ser gobernador, aún sobre el propio fiscal
de California. Read More.
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By Kristy Hutchings | Press-Telegram | Mar. 29,
2024 | Photo By Howard Freshman
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The exhibit features
photos by John A. Taboada which chronicle the work of the East
Long Beach Neighborhood Center, or Centro de la Raza, during the
1970s and 80s.
The Long Beach Historical Society has opened a new exhibit,
dubbed “Centro de la Raza,” to honor and memorialize the city’s
Chicano heritage.
Centro de la Raza, otherwise known as the East Long Beach
Neighborhood Center, opened in 1969 after the city’s Mexican
American/Chicano population saw a 400% percent increase during
the decade prior.
The Center, along with its founding members — dubbed the Chicano
Six — played a crucial role in galvanizing Long Beach’s Chicano
movement and advocating for the community.
The Historical Society’s exhibit will tell the story of Centro de
la Raza and the Chicano Six through the work of photographer John
Taboada. Read More
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Exhibit Celebrates Long Beach's untold Chicano
History
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By Christian Galeno Grajeda | Spectrum News | Apr.
24, 2024 | Video Courtesy of Christian Galeno
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The
black and white photographs hanging inside of the Historical
Society of Long Beach are snippets of Chicano life in the late
60s and early 70s.
Moments that professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos lived as an
organizer — fighting for a community who faced economic and
educational disadvantages.
Professor Armando is an original founder of "El Centro De La
Raza" — a neighborhood center that started in 1969 and had
major impacts on improving the lives of the booming Latino
population.
A time captured by the lens of the late teacher, artist and
photographer John A. Taboada. Historic photos that lived tucked
away in boxes for years that are now on display for the very
first time for everyone to see.
The exhibit is entirely free and is open all year long at the
Historical Society of Long Beach. For more information, you can
visit www.hsolb.org.
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Event Hosted by the Historical Society of Long
Beach (HSLB) & The Long Beach Chicano Community History
Committee
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The 1960’s saw the
largest and fastest growth of the Latino community in Long
Beach—a growth of nearly 400%. This, coupled with political and
social change, the rise of student unrest, the Chicano student
movement at California colleges and universities, including
CSULB, and the implementation of multiple federal War on Poverty
programs, resulted in the establishment of the East Long
Beach Neighborhood Center, also known as Centro de la Raza
(Centro). The organization served thousands of diverse and
economically disadvantaged community members with social programs
in labor, housing, arts and culture, mental health, education,
and more. In addition, the Centro launched the careers of many
Latino leaders in the greater Long Beach area.
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Between 1970 and
1985, the Centro’s programs were chronicled through the
photography of John A. Taboada (aka “JT”), a former CSULB student
and member of the local Chicano community. Members of the Long
Beach Chicano Community History Committee, made up of former
Centro members, have recently devoted countless hours to the
digitization and identification of these rare images. The
committee and the Historical Society of Long Beach have partnered
to publicly display these photographs for the very first time in
the exhibition Centro de La Raza: John A. Taboada Legacy Photo
Collection, 1970-1985 which explores the story of this impactful
community organization.
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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 book "Anthology of Dreams from an
Impossible Journey” is available now! This glossy, 380-page,
bilingual tome is jam-packed with photos and stories from the
essays of our Dreamers Study Abroad Program participants.
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By Arturo Cano | The Nation | Apr. 10, 2024 |
Photo Courtesy of Claudia Sheinbaum
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The former student
activist and mayor of Mexico City is poised to make history with
an ambitious platform on education, clean energy, and combatting
violence against women.
In
the center of the photograph is a young woman wearing a
kerchief. Alongside a small group of protesters, she holds
up a sign that reads, in English, “Fair Trade and Democracy Now.”
The protest—the only expression of dissent during Carlos Salinas
de Gortari’s triumphal tour of California—took place in September
1991 at Stanford University, where the Mexican president was
invited to give a speech. Salinas was at the height of his power.
Thirteen months later, he and his fellow North American leaders,
US President George H.W. Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney, would sign the North American Free Trade Agreement into
law.
Translated from the Spanish by Nicholas Allen.
At that moment, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the young woman in the
photograph, was driving from her home in Palo Alto, California,
to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she was doing
research as part of her doctoral studies in energy engineering at
the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). When one of
Sheinbaum’s old friends sent me the photo recently, I texted it
to her. She wrote back, “Heh, heh. I have the original,”
referring to the story published in The Stanford Daily.
Barring unforeseen disaster or a major electoral upset,
Sheinbaum, who was born in Mexico City in 1962, will be elected
the next president of Mexico on June 2. In 2022 and 2023, I
conducted several interviews with her—whenever her schedule as
mayor of Mexico City, one of the largest cities in the world,
would permit—for my book, Claudia Sheinbaum: Presidenta. On March
1, she launched her presidential campaign and announced her basic
platform. But knowing her history, her family, and the roots of
her political positions is essential to understanding who she is
and how she reached this point—and how she might use her power as
president. Sheinbaum’s principal opponent is Xóchitl Gálvez, who
represents a coalition made up of the Institutional Revolutionary
Party (PRI), the National Action Party (PAN), and the Party of
the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Read More.
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WHO
IS CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM PARDO?
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CLAUDIA : EL DOCUMENTAL
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By Araceli Martinez Ortega | La Opinion | Mar. 7,
2024 | Photo Courtesy of Karina Ruiz
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She is included in
the list of multi-member migrant candidates by the Morena party
to go to the Senate
Karina Ruiz, a 39-year-old dreamer grandmother, became the first
beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
program to be a candidate for migrant senator in Mexico.
“It is a very great honor and a huge responsibility to bring the
voice of the immigrant community to Mexico, specifically that of
the Mexicans who live here and there, where there are many
transition migrants and we have to see the treatment they are given,”
said Karina, executive director of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition
Inc in an interview with La Opinión after learning that she is
number 12 on the list of senators through the multi-member route
(proportional representation) of the ruling Morena party.
This means that she is one step away from being the first Dreamer
to be part of the Mexican Senate in the legislature that begins
in September. Read More
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Karina's Speech at Alcadia Venustiano Carranza,
Ciudad de Mexico - Agosto 9, 2023
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Who is Karina Ruiz?
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Karina Ruiz - Dreamer Candidate for the Mexican
Senate
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THE
POWER OF THE MEXICAN VOTE
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LA FUERZA DEL VOTO MEXICANO
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DID
YOU KNOW - DREAMERS CAN VOTE TOO!
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LA FUERZA DEL "MEXICAN VOTE"
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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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