Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Dolores Huerta, Cherrie Moraga, Leslie Marmon Silko,

COMBATING HATE, CENSORSHIP & FORBIDDEN CURRICULA

Update
In the dialogue of the State of Arizona, Dolores Huerta recounted her role in both the Chicano Labor Movement and the attack on Tucson Unified School District's Ethnic Studies program. The highlights of her role working Cesar Chavez was her coining of the now iconic "Si se puede" mantra/motto/dicho. Apparently, while signing up voters, a woman told Huerta that she couldn't register to vote, to which Huerta spontaneously responded, "Si, se puede."

I originally joked I thought Edward Jame Olmos had coined the phrase because I attributed all Chicano accomplishments to him (my father was a fan beginning with Zoot Suit, then on to Blade Runner, and Miami Vice before Stand and Deliver, while the rest of the Mexi-nerd, cyber-Aztec family members are Battlestar Gallactica-tecas).















Huerta also explained how she told TUSD high school students that Republican representatives in Arizona something to the effect of not caring about Mexicans. Opponents of TUSD Ethnic Studies like Tom Horne and John Huppenthal took this quote and ran with it as though there had been no history of subjugation of Latin@s in the Southwest. (See Jane Hill's "Hasta La Vista Baby" for a discussion in greater depth).

Inspired by Huerta's discussion with TUSD Ethnic Studies students, they organized protests when an Arizona school official spoke to the school with the stipulation that there would be no questions asked of the official by students.


Conference at UA Dec 2-4

Highlights from Friday Dec. 3 alone include (from Dr. Cintli's blog):

10:45-11:45am DECOLONIZING THE UNIVERSITY AS SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Cesar Chavez # 205 and 209
Samuel Bañales (UC Berkeley). "Challenging the Coloniality of Organizing with Activism
from Below"

Mattie Harper (UC Berkeley). "We Are Still Here: Confronting Myths of the Vanishing Indian Within the
Western Academy"
Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers University). "Next Steps: A Latina/o Academy of Arts and Sciences."
Moderator: Damian Baca, University of Arizona

And later that evening at the Gallagher Theater:

6-:6:50 pm
DIALOGUE: ARIZONA HATE and HOMOPHOBIA
Cherrie Moraga, Celia Rodriguez Raúl Al-qaraz Ochoa
Moderator: Sandy Soto

8:00-9:30 pm DIALOGUE: THE STATE OF ARIZONA

Simon Ortiz, Isabel Garcia, Dolores Huerta
Moderator: Leilani Clark
Opening Poem: Mixelle Rascon

And Saturday's events include:
El Rio CC - 1390 West Speedway Boulevard Tucson, AZ 85745-2324

10 am-11:30am PLATICA CALPOLLI TEOXICALLI
Mazatzin: "The Ancient Mexika Chronological System"
AMPHITHEATER EL RIO CC
Menudo Breakfast
Noon -7pm FLORICANTO ARTS/MUSIC FESTIVAL
2 stages
Indoor and Outdoor stage

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LESLIE MARMON SILKO – CHERRIE MORAGA - LUCI TAPAHONSO – FRANCISCO ALARCON - ELENA DIAZ BJORKQUIST – MARIA RAMIREZ – LUKE SALCIDO - CIHUATL CE - NICO-POETS DEL NORTE - FELICIA FE MONTES – MIXPE- STELLA POPE DUARTE – ANDREA HOLM – RAUL ALCARAZ - HEDY TREVINO – ELIAS SERNA – ALEX SOTO – TOLTEKA - TEATRO IZKALLI – SARAH GONZALEZ – NUESTRA VOZ –YWCA - ZARCO – DULCE JUAREZ – SAFOS THEATER – MARGE PELLEGRINO – MIXELLE RASCON – MI’JAN MI’JAN CELIE – SONIA GUTIERREZ - PHOTOGRAPHERS: LAYLA MARIE HERNANDEZ, FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ – ANITA FERNANDEZ – CELESTINO FERNANDEZ – KEVAN CHUC - JOEL 'RAGE.ONE' GARCIA - EL VUH
(PARTIAL LIST)

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