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Greetings!!
As often as we can, we'd like to share some of the topics, themes, questions that members of the MCC communities (interns, alumni, staff, visitors, etc) are thinking about.
This week Oliver Zerrudo is thinking about...
This past Tuesday when Jeh Johnson - the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security- came to visit UC Berkeley to address "threats to the homeland." Secretary Johnson claimed that the tactics of police and border militarization have been successful in identifying and stopping threats to the stability of the country. The anti-immigrant rhetoric was confronted by California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance organizers who questioned the Secretary's implementation of Priority Enforcement Program, a new transformation of the problematic Secure Communities Program, and the rampant deportations by ICE across Southern California. Check out the disruption in the video here.
Don't forget to check out California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance and their work around stopping ICE and deportations!
http://www.ciyja.org/
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For more conversation on this topic and many more, visit us in our temporary space in Hearst Field Annex D-37.
Hours through Oct, 2, 2015
Mondays: 9am-6pm
Tuesdays-Thursdays: 9am-8pm
Fridays: 9am-6pm
In solidarity,
The Multicultural Community Center
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Sekou Abdullah Odinga grew up in Jamaica, Queens-New York in a family of nine. He is a husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was inspired by the revolutionary principles of Malcolm X when he joined the Organization for Afro-American Unity, followed later by the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He is a Muslim, a citizen of the Republic of New Afrika and for thirty-three years was a U.S. held Political Prisoner of War.
In 2009, Sekou reached his mandatory release date for his federal conviction in connection to the Liberation of Assata Shakur - living in exile in Cuba - and was "paroled" to the New York State prison system. After five years, he won a parole hearing and was released on parole on November 25th, 2014 from the New York State sentence.
Sekou Odinga will be speaking about his experience in prison as a political prisoner and how he is now adjusting to being out of prison after 33 years.
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Come engage in creating a network of Chican@/Latin@ students, faculty, and community members!
Friday, September 18th
This is an opportunity to learn from alumni professionals in the field of education, immigration, health, and policy who will share the challenges and successes faced by Chican@ Latin@ students in K-12, adult, and higher education.
Saturday, September 19th
Saturday will encompass workshop panels providing students the opportunity to engage with alumni as they learn about their academic and professional journeys in their specific fields and the ways they have given back to their Chican@ Latin@ communities.
Alumni are encouraged to participate in any of the workshops.
Along with the workshop panels, alumni are invited to participate in various activities. These include campus tours, visit to the Ethnic Studies Library to engage with UC Berkeley faculty on their current research work, a Chican@ Latin@ art exhibit, and a presentation discussing the Chican@ Latin@ Legacy Report.
Sunday, September 20th
The scholarship brunch will honor and remember the legacy of Chican@ Latin@ Alumni trailblazers who paved the path for current and future generations of Chican@s and Latin@s to attend and thrive at Cal. The five chapters of the Chican@ Latin@ Alumni Association (CLAA): Northern California, Sacramento, Central Valley, Southern California, and San Diego, joined efforts to raise over $35,000 in funds to give back in scholarships to current graduate and undergraduate students.
Please join us to celebrate and honor our trailblazer and student scholarship recipients!
For more information and details check out the event page here
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Decolonizing Foodways
Thursday, October 1, 2015, 4 – 7:30pm
Alumni House Toll Room
The Food, Identity and Representation Working Group at UC Berkeley and University of the Pacific Food Studies program invite you to participate in an evening of critical thinking and tasting at the Decolonizing Foodways Symposium. Understanding food as a site for de/colonial struggles and strategies in the ways it is produced, consumed, circulated, prepared, and represented within a transnational advanced capitalist economy, this interactive workshop grapples with what it means to liberate our diets from colonial relationships of production and consumption both in theory and in practice. Building off the work of scholar/activists Luz Calvo and Catriona Esquibel, authors of “Decolonize Your Diet: A Manifesto,†we explore and continue to question what the process of decolonizing foodways means. We ask, for example: How do we increase the vitality of oppressed and indigenous peoples, maintain the integrity of our ancestral traditions, and embrace food and ways of cooking/eating that resist subjugation and instead nourish our palates, bodies, and lives? How do we make sense of the different realities of lived food experiences across time and space, taking into account the influences of power and privilege? How might we think through the intersections of diaspora, colonialism, assimilation, generational differences, and food gentrification/cultural appropriation? Utilizing an intersectional, audience-participatory, and multi-sensory approach, this symposium will include a panel of activists and scholars and a freshly-prepared meal by local chefs that cooks up decolonizing possibilities.
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The 2015 Intersect Conference is a full day conference open to the UC Berkeley campus community exploring intersectionality, social change, campus climate, empowerment and healing. “Intersectionality (or intersectionalism) is the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination. An example is black feminism, which argues that the experience of being a black female cannot be understood in terms of being black, and of being female, considered independently, but must include the interactions, which frequently reinforce each other.â€
Click the picture above to register!
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Scholarships & Resources:
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The RAZA Recruitment and Retention Center will be hosting our 8th annual H.Y.P.H.E.E. program to help high school seniors with the college application process by pairing them with UC Berkeley students. We are excited to announce that for the first time, The RAZA Center, will be able to afford one student a laptop! Sign up if you would like to mentor a scholar through this journey! Deadline is September 28th.
Sign up to be a HYPHEE Mentor!
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