OCTOber 11, 2020

Keynote Speech at 21st National Conference on LGBT Equality by Dolores Huerta

Jan. 29, 2009

As the keynote speaker at the 21st National Conference, legendary social justice and labor leader Dolores Huerta gave a powerful call for justice for all in the opening plenary. Huerta, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW), is a strong advocate and leading Latina voice for full equality for LGBT people.

presented by Rachel O'Hanlon-Rodriguez

Cristóbal Vega

An Artist Committed to His Own history and His Community 




OCTOBER 12, 2020

Undocumented and Unafraid by Gustavo Madrigal Piña 2011

Gustavo Madrigal Piña worked with Freedom University and The Georgia Undocumented Youth Alliance for a number of years. He attended and graduated from Hampshire College in 2016. While there, he helped start the Immigrant Solidarity Network. Here is Gustavo Madrigal-Piña at the University of Georgia in 2011, where he spoke out against the harsh Georgia’s laws that prohibited “Dreamers” from attending top notch Universities in the State, He was Undocumented And Unafraid.

presented by Diana Rodriguez

Valeria Sanchez

Student, Community Advocate and Communicator

Valeria shares the story of her journey from Mexico to the United States.



OCTOBER 13, 2020

Address to the Commonwealth Club of California by Cezar Chaves 1984

The farm worker leader Cesar Chavez was born in Arizona, and grew up in migrant labor camps. In the early 1960s, he helped found the National Farm Workers Association, a precursor to the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and, eventually, the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. Chavez came to international attention in March 1968, when he announced a boycott of California grapes. The popular boycott, in protest of the anti-union efforts of California growers, led to millions of dollars in losses for agribusiness and led to historic contracts with the UFW. But many of the growers broke the contracts or refused to negotiate new ones. In this speech1, given in San Francisco in 1984, Chavez describes the unfinished struggle of farm workers for justice.

presented by Frank Jimenez

Sandra Nayeli Irene Manrique

Walker there is not a road, you make the road while you walk




OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sermon on the "just treatment of Indians by Antonio de Montesinos 1511

Antonio de Montesinos or Antonio Montesino  was a Spanish Dominican friar who was a missionary on the island of Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic and Haiti). Montesinos was the first European to publicly denounce the enslavement and harsh treatment of the indigenous peoples of the island. He is best remembered for a sermon delivered on December 4, 1511, in which he made a blistering attack on the colonists who had enslaved the people of the Caribbean.

presented by Armando Batista



Diego Ledesma

The Birth of an Educator 

Give or Take: Thanksgiving?

Two NAtive American Voices & Two Radical Voices Contextualizing Thanksgiving & the Consumerism of Black Friday

 

Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food?” (1609) Powhatan

presented by Chief David Stands with Song

Powhatan (c. 1547-1618) was the head of a confederacy that spanned hundreds of miles and thirty-two tribes.In 1607 Powhatan’s confederacy allowed the English to establish their first colony at Jamestown. In 1609, when the same Captain Smith, dissatisfied with trade negotiations, resorted to bluster and threats, Powhatan made the following reply. Powhatan was the father of Pocahontas.

 

A Great Difference between Red and White (1805) Sago-Yo-Watha (Red Jacket), Haudenenosaunee Iroquois.

Sago-Yo-Watha (Red Jacket) was an Iroquois law-giver, whose name in English means "He who keeps us alert". A contemporary observed that he spoke "with a voice as low, as gentle and caressing, as e'er won a maiden's lips". In the following piece, delivered in 1805, he explains to a young Moravian Missionary why he was being refused permission to open a mission on Indian land.

“The Dominant Idea by Voltairine de Cleyre

presented by Mary Tuomanen

Voltairine was one of the most prolific anarchist writers of her generation. Her focus extended beyond the question of a reevaluation of government to consider the impact of religion, sexuality, and the life of workers. Almost evangelical in her adherence to anarchism, she wrote essays and poems to encapsulate her hope for humanity, as in this piece, the ways our culture’s consumerism tears at the fabric of one’s being

 

“The Margin of Profit” Walter Mosley

presented by Roderick Slocum

Mosley is one of the most versatile authors in America, his examinations of the cost of capitalism and consumerism reconsiders the role of the 'citizen in the machine of the American economy. H

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