2010 Peliminary Program
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Tour #1: El Centro de la Raza - Thursday April 8, 2010 5:00 p.m.
Founded in October 1972 in an occupation of an old abandoned school house on top of Beacon Hill in Seattle, WA, El Centro de la Raza remains committed to serve and empower our communities for social change and justice. El Centro de la Raza has many different programs including the Jose Marti Child Development Center, Food Bank, Housing Assistance, Homeownership Program, Hope for Youth Program, After-school mentoring and tutoring, Senior Program and many more. As an organization grounded in the Latino community, our mission is to build unity across all racial and economic sectors, to organize, empower, and defend our most vulnerable and marginalized populations and to bring justice, dignity, equality, and freedom to all the peoples of the world.
Your local tour guide, Irene Sanchez, will begin waiting at 4:45 pm to promptly leave at 5pm from the Grand Hyatt Hotel lobby.
Light walking, just three blocks to take the Light Rail. Light Rail station stops across the street from El Centro de la Raza. Please bring $3.50 to ride the light rail ($1.75 each way) The machines for the station take cash or cards.
For more information contact Irene Sanchez - 206.612.8662 or irenems@u.washington.edu
Tour #2: Marra Farm Tour - Saturday 12:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Come and visit one of Seattle's last two pieces of farmland remaining in the city. Marra Farm is a 4.5 acre urban farm located in South Seattle, and is the site of a diverse array of gardeners, growing techniques, and sustainable practices. Tour will depart from the Grand Hyatt Hotel at 12:30pm. Please bring a rain jacket and shoes that you don't mind getting muddy. Tour is limited to ten people, please RSVP Teresa Mares at tmares@u.washington.edu.
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| Conference Theme Panels (Presenters and Sessions are likely to change. Final listings in the printed program.) |
Session One
El Centro de la Raza: 37 years of Community Empowerment and Fighting for Social Justice
Maestas, Roberto. El Centro de la Raza.
Ortega, Estela. El Centro de la Raza.
Gonzalez, Enrique. El Centro de la Raza.
Chair: Sanchez, Irene. El Centro de la Raza.
Session Two
Community Food: Developing Traditional Farming and Associations to Empower Latinos
Figueroa, Teresa. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Forming Collaborative Networks to End Hunger among Latinos.”
Carney, Megan. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Latina/Chicana Women in the Transition from Food Security to Food Soveignty: The Making of Community-Based Food Policy.”
Vera, Julio. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Association of Mexican Immigrant Farmers: A Case Study in Organizing Disempower Peasants.”
Jasso, Juan. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Developing traditional Farming Plots: Huamiles and Ecuaros.”
Discussant: Dubry, Travis. University of California, Santa Barbara. “Ready to Mobilize: Farm Labor
Session Three
Contemporary natural resource management and traditional Indo-Hispano subsistence knowledge : New Mexico Land-based communities in contemporary economies
Villarreal, Renee. Community Planner, Santa Fe County. “Compadrazgo and Land-Based Knowledge: The Challenges Facing Land-based Communities of Northern New Mexico.”
Sanchez, Juan. New Mexico Land Grant Consejo; New Mexico Acequia Commission. “The New Mexico Land Grants Movement and Community-Based Natural Resource Management.”
Romero, Eric. New Mexico Highlands University. “Querencia: Ideological/Behavioral Foundations for a Chicano Land-Stewardship Ethic and Place-Identity.”
Salazar, Kenny. New Mexico Acequia Association. “Food Sovereignty and the Reestablishment of Traditional Agricultural Practices in New Mexico Acequia Communities.”
Session Four
Hands in the Earth, Feet on the Ground: A Return to the Land in Literature, Agriculture, and Identity
Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. Stanford University. “Transnational Migrant Collectivity in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus.”
Colín, Ernesto “Tlahuitollini”. Stanford University, Loyola Marymount University. “Urban Mexica Agriculture: Profile of a community organizing for a sustainable indigenous agriculture and diet.”
Madrigal, Doris. Stanford University. “Sustainable Self: The strategic identity work of a Mexica danzante/farm worker.”
Session Five
Challenging and Transforming Colorado Water Law for Acequia Survival
Gallegos, Joseph C., Sangre de Cristo Acequia Association; and Peña, Devon G., University of Washington and The Acequia Institute. “Ley de Acequias: Mutual Aid, Cooperative Labor, and Dispute Resolution in Customary Place-Based Water Governance.”
Hicks, Greg. University of Washington. “Acequia Water Governance: Is a Legislative Challenge to Prior in the Making?”
Peña, Devon G. University of Washington and The Acequia Institute. “The 2009 Colorado Acequia Recognition Law: First Steps in the Re-Legitimating of Ethnoecology, Mutual Aid, and Self-Governance?”
Discussant: Montaño, Mario. Colorado College.
Chicanos/as, the Environment, and the Capitalist Crisis: Racism, Decolonization, and Green SocialismGutierrez, Gabriel. California State University, Northridge. “Enviro-cide: Rhetorical, Legislative, and Physical Violence as a Form of Resource Management and Material Distribution, From Andrew Jackson to Lou Dobbs.”
Lopez, Mark. California State University, Northridge. “The Fire: De-colonizing ‘Environmental Justice’.”
Rodriguez, David. California State University, Northridge. “Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Chicana/o Community: Towards a Green Socialism.”
Session Six
The Commons and Neoliberal Enclosures
Mares, Teresa. University of Washington. “Insurgent Spaces and the Urban Agriculture Food Justice Movement.”
Tezozomoc. South Central Farmers. “Feeding Families Food for the Hood: Resilience and Autonomy.”
Peña, Devon G. University of Washington and The Acequia Institute. “Restoring the Watershed Commons as a Pathway to Ecological Democracy.”
Gonzalez, Pablo. UT Austin. “Contesting Autonomies and Commons: Chicana/os Urban Zapatismo and the Rise of Neoliberal White Supremacy in Los Angeles, California.”
Discussant: McFarland, Pancho. Chicago State University.
Moderator: Peña, Drvon G.
Environmentalism and Aesthetics in Chicano/a History
Ontiveros, Randy. University of Maryland. “Green Aztlán: Environmentalism and Art in the Chicano Movement.”
González, Tanya. Kansas State University. “Chicana Gothic?: the Aesthetics of Violence and the Environment.”
Lyells, Stephanie. Texas Tech University. “The Hungry Woman: (Re)Formation and (Dis)Integration of Self.”
Session Seven
Chicos del horno: A Local, Slow, and Deep Food
Peña, Devon G. University of Washington and The Acequia Institute. “How Adobe Oven-Roasted Corn Became a Local, Slow, and Deep Food.” Montaño, Mario. Colorado College. “Food, Sociality, and Place: the Social Organization of Chicos del Horno.”
Gallegos, Joseph C. Sangre de Cristo Acequia Association. “The Chicos Way of Life.”
Discussant: Santíestevan, Miguel. UNM (tentative).
Session Eight
Acts of Survival: Geographies of Violence and Resistance en la Frontera
Rodriguez, Annette. Brown University. “The San Elizario Salt War: The 1877 Mexicano War Against Environmental Exploitation.”
Perea, Patricia. University of New Mexico. “Contaminated Bodies: Constructions of Race and the Violent Work of the Camera on the U.S.-Mexico Border.”
Rivera, Diana Noreen. University of New Mexico. “Ecology of Fear: Red Scare, Capitalism and the Fate of la Gente in Américo Paredes’s The Shadow.”
Castillo, Eric. University of New Mexico. “Razed on the Border: Race, Citizenship, and the Art of Belonging.”
Session Nine
Youth Empowerment for Environmental and Educational Justice in Los Angeles
Gurrola, German. West Adams Preparatory High School.
Rojas, Ambrosia. Woodrow Wilson High School.
Manns, Nikeitha. West Adams Preparatory High School.
Espinoza, Carlos. West Adams Preparatory High School.
Malagon, Jonathan. Wilson High School.
Chair: Ali, Arshad. University of California, Los Angeles.
Session Ten
Slow Death in the Green Desert: Community mobilization to clean air, earth, and water in Imperial County, California
Olmedo, Luis. Comite Civico del Valle.
Alvarez, Adrian. Revografia.
Ramos, Amy. National Latino Research Center.
Chair: Nunez-Alvarez, Arcela. National Latino Research Center.
Fighting Pollution from the Ground Up
Molina, Darryl. Youth EJ/Communities for a Better Environment.
Cabrales, Robert. United Residents of South East Los Angeles for EJ.
Torres, Jesus. Communities for a Better Environment. Zavala, Angeles. Youth EJ/CBE/SNEEJ.
Chair: Lopez, mark!. Youth EJ/Communities for a Better Environment.
Session Eleven
South East Los Angeles Youth in ActionGutierrez, Oscar. Youth EJ/Communities for a Better Environment.
Gonzalez, Rosi. Youth EJ/Communities for a Better Environment.
Solares, April. Youth EJ/Communities for a Better Environment.
Medina, Tiffany. Youth EJ/Communities for a Better Environment.
Santillan, Gabriel. Youth EJ/Communities for a Better Environment.
| Joto Caucus Sponsored Panels (dates and times are subject to change) |
Session Three
Toxicity within the Body of Chicana/o Studies? Exploring our Queer Bodies and theToxic within our Sacred Sites
Guido, Gibran. San Diego State University.
Gonzalez, Omar. California State University Northridge.
Alvarez, Pablo. California State University Northridge.
Chair: Aguilar-Hernandez, Jose M. University of California, Los Angeles.
Session Six
Theorizing Mariposas: Redefining Queer Chicano Identities in the Works of Rigoberto González
Güido, Gibran. San Diego State University. “Mariposas Rebeldes: the Reading and Conceptualization of Queer Chicanos in Rigoberto González’s Butterfly Boy and The Mariposa Club.”
Pérez, Daniel Enrique. University of Nevada, Reno. “Towards a Mariposa Consciousness: Reimagining Queer Chicano Identities.”
Sánchez, Nicholas M.. University of New Mexico. “Vals de las Mariposas: (Re)Defining Chicano Nationalism in Rigoberto Gonzalez’s Butterfly Boy.”
Chair: Martínez, Ernesto J. University of Oregon.
Session Nine
(Re)Claiming the Queerness in Chicana/o Culture, Families, and Communities
Aguilar-Hernández, José Manuel. University of California, Los Angeles. “El Santo Niño de Atocha es joto: Queering Critical Race Testimonio.”
Hernández, Julián Andres. University of California, Los Angeles. “Queering Mental Health: Conversations with my Mother.”
Ochoa, Juan D. California State University, Los Angeles. “Finding Família at UCLA: Jotiando en los 90’s.”
Chair: Roque Ramírez, Horacio N. University of California, Santa Barbara.
| Films scheduled at NACCS (subject to change) |
“When Will the Punishment End? Stories by Formerly Incarcerated Women.”
A documentary of formerly incarcerated women revealing struggles of reentering society.
“The Garden.” A fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis. The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall.
The Wall: In 2006, Congress passes The Secure Fence Act calling for construction of 700 miles of fence along the US/Mexico border. They were not prepared for what followed. The Wall, documents the impact of constructing a border fence along the Southwest. From policy makers to citizens of border towns the debate elevates as residents respond to having a fence built in their backyard.
“Cemented River (10 min film).” Sotelo, Teresa. Independent Scholar.
El Paso and Juarez are separated by the Rio Grande, known in Mexico as the Rio Bravo. From a distance it would be difficult to see where one country ends and the other begins were it not for the river and the thread of lights along the cemented, distorted, once vibrant river. In certain areas the river appears to disappear. This once meandering river has become, at least in this border region, cemented and enclosed, serving its new function of a man manipulated barrier. Because the river would “not lie still”, it was deemed necessary to control it with cement. Now the fortresses of fences, stadium lights, and the green vehicles of the INS, what we call la migra, are abundant.
“La mujer mixteca (documentary film).” 30 minutes Lopez, Jazmin. Whitman College.
The films focuses on four Mixtec women from a village in Oaxaca, Mexico. The film highlights the importance of oral history as it connects memory and language in order to preserve the Mixtec culture. In the film, four elderly Mixtec women share their life stories in Mixteco, an endangered indigenous language, and recount the past events that shaped their own lives in the small village. Their narrations reveal their thoughts and concerns for the preservation of the Mixtec culture. The interviews with these women also discuss the changes that have affected the village and how it has impacted the Mixtec culture and people. Like many other indigenous cultures in the Americas, Mixtec culture is rapidly changing. As fluent Mixtec speakers become scarcer, there is an urgency to capture their own stories in their own words. Through the stories of these indigenous women, this film presents the language, history, and traditions of the Mixtec culture.
“As Long as I Remember: American Veteranos (documentary 54 min. ).” Varela, Laura. San Antonio Filmmakers. Examines the personal toll and legacy of the Vietnam War on three South Texas artists: visual artist Juan Farias, author Michael Rodriguez and poet/performance artist Eduardo Garza. The stories of these veterans and their families take us through a journey of their lives: growing up in the Mexican American community; their military service in Vietnam; their lives after the war.
We Are the Land: Xicana Indigenous Filmmakers: Screenings of Films
Claudia Mercado & Mujeres de Maiz “Lady in Motion”. Mujeres de Maiz 2009
Claudia Mercado “Ixchel”Aurora Guerrero “Pura Lengua”
Maritza Alvarez “Aquí Estamos y No Nos Vamos”
Claudia Mercado “Grandmothers Gathering”
Discussant: Montes, Felicia.
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