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DHLI/SCL Luisa Moreno Labor Studies Collection Use Survey

Published on Friday, 15th May, 2009 at 8:01PM
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The DHLI partnered with the Southern California Library to bring you the Luisa Moreno Labor Studies Collection.

We wish to increase accessibility and use of the Library and of the Labor Studies Collection.  If you are LA Community College District faculty or are a student attending one our 9 campuses (LACC, LAVC, WLAC, LASC, LAHC, ELAC, LAMC, Pierce, LATTC) please complete our survey so that we can better serve you. Your time is appreciated.

The survey can be accessed here. Click Here to take survey

Alternatively, you may download the survey to complete and email it to kle@dhli.org.

Thank you,

DHLI and SCL Staff

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Sign up for Classes with the LA Trade-Tech Labor Center!

Published on Friday, 15th May, 2009 at 12:09PM

Sign up for Fall 2009 classes with the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College Labor Center.

Why? So you can Develop Union Leadership Skills 

Plus:

Earn an AA Degree or a Certificate in Labor Studies while you are at it.

Get the change to Network with Other Union Activists and Leaders

Enrollment: By mail, on site or online at www.lattc.edu

Max Mont Scholarships: Full and partial scholarships are available for Labor Studies 

 

Students at LA Valley College Learn About Mexican Repatriation

Published on Friday, 8th May, 2009 at 2:46PM
Image of Emilia Castaneda and LAVC student Lupe Burgara
On Wednesday, May 6, 2009 LA Valley College hosted an event co-sponsored by the DHLI for Labor History Month. The event was spearheaded by LA Valley College Student Lupe Burgara, who organized an event for Labor History Month last year where Dolores Huerta and several Los Angeles unions came to the college. This year’s event commemorating Labor History Month was focused on  the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s. 
 
Emilia Castaneda and her daughter Dr. Christine Valenciana came to LA Valley College to talk about the Mexican Repatriation of the 1930s. Emilia Castaneda was born in the United States, but her parents were not. Her parents came to the United States to live and work, and her mother later passed away. She and her brother only had their father, who was forced under Mexican Repatriation to go to Mexico after he lost his job and lost his house. Because Emilia and her brother had no other family, they had no option but to go with their father to Mexico although they were U.S. citizens and had never been to Mexico before. If they wanted to stay in the U.S.
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Pierce Students and Faculty Learn About Going Green and What It Means For Them

Published on Thursday, 16th April, 2009 at 1:54PM
Woodrow Clark, II talking at Pierce College

Woodrow W. Clark, II spoke to hundreds of students and faculty at Pierce College on Thursday, April 16, 2009 about the environment, the green economy and technology and what going green means for their educational and professional pursuits.  Dr. Clark presented a PowerPoint presentation, showing data, images and information about how we got where we are today and what viable options there are for the future so that we can have renewable energy resources and help our economy grow in a responsible sustainable fashion.  The presentation concluded with remarks on what going green means for the future of jobs and how students can prepare for the Third Industrial Revolution.  The presentation ended with a question and answer session where students and faculty were able to ask Dr. Clark questions about what they can do in light of what is happening to our environment and our economy.

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Cesar Chavez Day and the Forgotten Asian Americans

Published on Wednesday, 1st April, 2009 at 1:56PM
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This past Cesar Chavez Day (March 31) reminds us how forgotten stories can perpetuate stereotypes. Charlotte, an Asian American student leader at Pomona College, asked me how do we ignite people into political action and sweep away the tired public perception of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) as passive and docile. I asked her if she knew the story of Pilipino or Japanese American farm workers in the fields and she admitted she knew very little. Considering the last of the Pilipino farm workers from an earlier period died in 1997 and very little has been written in any depth, most of the students across all races shared this common amnesia.
 
The story of Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) has been widely circulated to the point of Cesar’s birthday being designated as a California state holiday and President Obama declaring public support of it becoming a national one.
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