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May 11, 2008

Anti-Deportation Coalition (A.D.C.)

Students/workers/people from a bunch of different communities and organizations have come together in solidarity to fight the unjust and inhumane treatment of our immigrants, refugees and workers.

Here’s the breakdown:

Week of Events Sunday, April 27-Saturday, May 3
“Intersecting Communities”

SUNDAY, APRIL 27TH
Achieving Our Dreams, Immigrant Student Conference
Hosted by Rising Immigrant Scholars through Education (RISE)
9AM-3PM, Temporary Multicultural Center (MCC)/Heller Lounge
Every student has the right to reach their fullest potential
Immigrant High School and Community College Students, parents, counselors, and community members.
rise-ucb.blogspot.com

MONDAY, APRIL 30TH
“Pinoy Sightings” film screening and workshop
Hosted by {m}aganda magazine
7-10PM, 200 Wheeler
Patricio Ginelsa will screen his film “Pinoy Sightings” about Pilipino representation in the mainstream media. His work is known nationally for being the director of Lumpia and “The Ones and Twos” DJ documentary, the Black Eyed Peas’ “the apl song” (on supporting the Pilipino WWII Veterans Equity Act) and “bebot” (on supporting funds for establishing a cultural museum for Little Manila, Stockton, CA ) music videos, Native Guns’ “Champion” music video, and Associate Producer of The Debut.

TUESDAY, APRIL 29TH
ANTI-DEPORTATION DIALOGUES: TEACH-OUT!
Hosted by Anti-Deportation Coalition,
5:30-7PM, 88 Dwinelle

Deportation affects ALL communities, there are intersecting communities and connections between us all. The purpose of this teach-out is to emphasize the importance of education and taking action around such a critical issue of deportation affecting our communities. We encourage folks to take steps in coalition-building and develop a collective voice, realize their student power and bridge gaps in information across communities affected by deportation. We hope that this dialogue will let folks understand that an attack on one immigrant community is an attack on all of us and that we should work in solidarity with each other.

TUESDAY, APRIL 29TH
REACH! Political Awareness Week
“Global Slavery: Bringing the Outside In”
Hosted by
REACH! Asian Pacific Islander (API)
Recruitment and Retention Center
7-8PM, 170 Barrows
A workshop during REACH! General meeting that gives a general overview of globalization. Our theme is globalization and we will cover sex trafficking,
the dislocation of people, labor issues, etc. We hope to show
the close connection between things that happen transcontinental and
global, and the issues that happen in our communities.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 30TH
IMMIGRATION TEACH-OUT: MIGRATION IS A HUMAN RIGHT!!!!
Hosted by XINAXTLI
7:30-9PM
243 Dwinelle

Come and share your experiences in a night of dialogue regarding the recent deportations that have taken place and separated many families. Its a teach-OUT because we want to take all the knowledge we have and take it out into all communities that are being targeted by ICE agents (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to show that we are in solidarity with immigrants/workers/refugees and all who are criminalized in this country due to their immigration status. Please come through!!

**This is a potluck so please bring some snacks**

p.s. xinaxtli loves you y tu mama tambien.<3

WEDNESDAY APRIL 30TH
REACH! Political Awareness Week
Sex Trafficking Teach-in/Movie Screening
Hosted by
REACH! Asian Pacific Islander (API)
Recruitment and Retention Center
6-8PM, 250 Dwinelle.
Tight movie that will provide an eye-opening experience.

THURSDAY MAY 1ST
ONE LAND, ONE PEOPLE, ONE STRUGGLE: RALLY AND MARCH FOR WORKER, IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS.
Hosted by the May 1st Coalition
11AM-3PM
UC Berkeley Upper Sproul

Federal authorities have kidnapped and detained thousands of people across the US in ICE raids. All raids, murders and attacks on refugee and immigrant communities need to stop immediately! Government raids, imprisons, deports, murders, and terrorizes our community. These attacks are a part of a larger war against our people, land and culture. It is an attack on our self-determination!

Please contact crystal marich cmarich@gmail.com if you have questions about the rally.

THURSDAY MAY 1ST
REACH! Political Awareness Week
Labor Issues Activist Panel
6-8PM, 250 Dwinelle
Cool people who are activelyinvolved in the community and who will talk about the different labor
issues that they are working on.

FRIDAY MAY 2ND
NIGHT OF CULTURAL RESISTANCE: DESIGNING OUR RESISTANCE: MANY STYLES, ONE STRUGGLE.
Hosted by Multicultural Student Development
Heller Lounge/Multicultural Center
Doors at 6PM

In a desire to commemorate the spirit of resistance and cross-cultural collaboration that fueled the student struggles of 1969 and 1999, CCSD/TWLC created the Night of Cultural Resistance (NoCR). Multicultural events on this campus are often notorious for being reduced to food, music and dance, without an attempt to create a cross-cultural understanding of a shared history of struggle that informs multi-cultural movements for liberation and equal rights. NoCR, generally occurring in April of every year, was created with the hope of uniting peoples of all races, cultures, nations, and sexual orientations through a multicultural perspective and understanding. Artists, musicians, writers, activists, students and community members come together to celebrate the many histories, stories, traditions, and cultural and artistic expressions that together create a multicultural vision of struggle and liberation.

SATURDAY MAY 3RD
Hip-Hop In The Park
Hosted by Students 4 Hip Hop
12 NOON-5PM, People’s Park

Headlining this year will be Clyde Carson from The Team and Mystic. Other acts include: Kiwi from Native Guns, Geologic from Blue Scholars, Brown Buffalo Project, Apakalips and Overflow with DJ Deuce Ace, Talia the Bay Area freestyle champion, 40-love, FCC Hip Hop Workshop, and many more!

Come join Students for Hip Hop for our 12th annual Hip Hop in the Park! As usual this concert will be FREE to the public. We invite everyone from the community to celebrate in this positive, empowering, movement.

There will be live music, live graffiti art, live DJing, and live break dancing.
For more information, send us an email at studentsforhiphop@gmail.com. Visit calhiphop.net

SATURDAY, MAY 3RD
unveiling reception of 21st issue of
{m}aganda magazine themed “legal”
Tilden Room 5th floor of MLKJ Student Union Bldg. 2-5PM,
Hosted by {m}aganda magazine
Performances, music, art, food, raffle, and open mic.

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contributors responded to our call for submissions below:

this is a coming of age. this is {m}aganda’s 18th year and our 21st issue .
but becoming “legal” is more than just a status granted at an arbitrary age.
it is a label used to redeem and persecute people according to the laundry list of their identity.
conceptions of what is “legal” map out the realm of the possible.
they are boundaries that direct, define, and limit the ways we think, feel, and act.

your age can criminalize you.
your tax bracket can vindicate you.
your nationality can incriminate you.
your gender can hinder success.
your marriage can be forbidden.

social commandments–both formal as laws and informal as cultural norms– are constructed in contexts that render them biased. justice is not blind after all.

legality and its fraternal twin illegality are not just children of court cases and litigation. they are our personal beliefs and standards shaped by ideology, regulated by society, internalized by each of us, and executed upon those who step outside of a fence we have built around ourselves.

legal is not a characteristic set in stone. it is fluid, changeable, and flexible. most of all, it is felt.

{m}aganda asks you to confront, criticize, and challenge unspoken assumptions and known ideas.

LEGAL

submit to {m}21 and redefine it for yourself

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http://magandamagazine.wordpress.com

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COME THROUGH THIS WEEK. we need to stand in solidarity to not just learn about these issues but TAKE ACTION. let’s stand strong and stand together in our struggles to RESIST mainstream narratives that silence our voices and oppress our people! WE ARE ALL POWERFUL AND A PART OF THIS MOVEMENT.

COME HOLD IT DOWN.

“I DON’T GOT A PHD BUT I’VE BEEN ON THE STREETS.”

in lak ech//tu eres mi otro yo//you are my other self.

“No Human being is illegal.”