Conference Combatting Hate Censorship, and Forbidden Curricula Schedule

 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

THURSDAY DEC 2 - UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

7:30 –8:am Opening Ceremony-Outside Old Main – CALPOLLI TEOXICALLI

8– 9:45 am Opening Platica CALPOLLI TEOXICALLI- Old Main Auditorium

Chucho Ruiz,  Maria Molina, Norma Gonzalez, Jose Gonzalez and Zotero Citlacoatl

An Indigenous Education

10 am TOUR OF EXHIBIT - Main Library 10-10-50am  10am Community Organizing Panel Cesar Chavez Bldg #205 Corazón de Tucson

Tucson Childcare Collective

Tierra y Libertad

Yo Soy Testigo 

Fred Highton, MoveOn.Org

11-4 pm Sessions at The KIVA-UA Student Union

11-11:50 am - SESSION  - The KIVA-UA Student Union

Raza Studies K-6 Immigration/Education Dialogue Opening: In Lak Ech: 4-5 year olds - Ms Paula's Dreams Room, Ochoa Elem.

Raza Studies K-6 Dialogue Ochoa and Van Buskirk Elementary Schools

Moderated by Norma Gonzalez

NOON-12:50 pm - SESSION

LESSONS OF TLATELOLCO (1968) and THE 1970 NATIONAL CHICANO MORATORIUM

Celeste Bustamante, UA-School of Journalism - Tlatelolco in the Curriculum Ramses Noriega,  Co-founder, National Chicano Moratrorium Ashley Bustamante, Tucson HS student, Ruben Salazar and The Moratorium Carmen Orozco, Tucson HS student, Ruben Salazar and The Moratorium    1-1:50 pm -SESSION MAS GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Lizette Opio, Courtney Lower, Adrian Mendoza, Arlene Provencio, Aaron Enrique Almada Moderator: Rosario Carrillo, PhD, MAS-University of Arizona

2-2:50 pm ANALYSIS OF ANTI-ETHNIC/RAZA STUDIES HB2281-KIVA Student Union

Anna Ochoa O'Leary, Andrea Romero, Randall Amster and Auggie Romero

3-3:50 pm GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION

FREIRE-TUHIWAI SMITH-ACUNA DIALOGUE Courtney Waters, Erin MacKinney, Cash Conner, Yousseff Toure Moderated by Jose Gonzalez, Raza Studies Teacher, TUSD 

OLD MAIN AUDITORIUM (GROUND FLOOR)

3-4:45 pm MECHA-YOUTH CITYWIDE/REGIONAL DIALOGUE  EVENING PROGRAM

YWCA 5-10pm EVE RECEPTION - 525 N. Bonita Ave TUCSON AZ 85745

5:-5:30 pm FOOD/RECEPTION

Opening Alianza Indigena

Nuestra Voz-YWCA Youth Presentation

Sarah Gonzales YWCA host

5:45:-6:30 pm EL CORAJE STUDENT/ELDERS PRESENTATION

Student presentation of  El Coraje Magazine To Founders of El Coraje Newspaper

Elders: Salomon Baldenegro Sr., Ceci Cruz, Guadalupe Castillo and Frank de la Cruz

Students: Karina Salazar, Lalo Villalobos,  Marissa Martinez and Lizeth Norma Grijalva

6:35- 7:15 pm TUSD-RAZA/ETHNIC STUDIES STUDENTS ALUMNI PANEL

Leilani Clark: Raza Studies Timeline Respondents: Alfonso Chavez, Pima CC

Jacob Robles Pima CC

Angelica Peñaran Tucson HS

Sarah Navarrette, Pueblo HS

Flor Burruel, Sunnyside HS

Dina Barajas - Side by Side by Zitkala-Sa

7:25-8 pm TUSD-RAZA/ETHNIC STUDIES EDUCATORS PANEL

Julio Camarota, Auggie Romero, Sean Arce, Alzira Duncan, Lorenzo Lopez, Rene Martinez, Jose Gonzalez and Norma Gonzalez   Raza Studies educators, and plaintiffs

8:05 PM - 8:20 pm Professor and Tucson elder, Raquel Rubio Goldsmith

8:20- 8:30 COURTNEY LOWER

Tribute to Rodolfo Acuña, CSUN Prof, author, Occupied America

8:30-8:50 pm Precious Knowledge Documentary, Dos Vatos Productions by Ari Palos and Eren McGinnis, Pricila Rodriguez, University of Arizona

8:50-9:30 pm RAZA/ETHNIC STUDIES DIALOGUE   Led By Kim Dominguez, Arturo Rodriguez and Jennifer Contreras

9:30-10 pm RECEPTION

FRIDAY DEC 3– UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

8 -9:50 am MAESTROS DE SEMILLA: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

Cesar Chavez # 205 and 209 (Breakfast)
teacher Armando Cauich, from Yucatan, on the topic of J’meen (Maya Indigenous Knowledge)

10-10: 45 Arizona's Neo-Apartheid Cesar Chavez # 205 and 209

Manuel Hernandez (ASU) 

Russell Pearce: the Death of the 1960s Gains in Civil Rights for Minorities in Arizona

and an Unfolding  National Consensus  for a Repeat of Operation Wetback   Jennifer James, Phoenix University

10:45-11:45am DECOLONIZING THE UNIVERSITY AS SOCIAL MOVEMENT

Cesar Chavez # 205 and 209

Samuel Bañales (UC Berkeley). "Challenging the Coloniality of Organizing with Activism from Below"

Mattie Harper (UC Berkeley). "We Are Still Here: Confronting Myths of the Vanishing Indian Within the

Western Academy"

Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers University). "Next Steps: A Latina/o Academy of Arts and Sciences."

nmt@berkeley.edu   Moderator: Damian Baca, University of Arizona

11am–NOON BOOK READING

Rosalia Solorzano and Francisca J. Hernandez – Chicana Studies Reader

Moderator: Bob Diaz UA - Main Library #A313

NOON-1pm UA MALL FRONT OF STUDENT UNION LUNCH, ENTERTAINMENT AND SPEAKERS

Grupo Folklorico Miztontli

de la Universidad de Arizona

ZARCO (TEATRO)

Raza Studies K-12 Dialogue 

1- 1:30 pm EXHIBIT MAIN LIBRARY

2 - 4:30 pm ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS – GALLAGHER THEATER

2 - 2:50 pm  HISTORICAL TRAUMA

Moderated and presentation by Teresa Carrillo, Phd, Director, Raza Studies, San Francisco State University - The Latino Threat Narrative

Lydia Zulema Martinez Vega and Luname Teoxihuitl Harrishawk

Tommy Begay UA, Historical Trauma  

2:55 - 3:35 pm  BEYOND ARIZONA

Carlos Montes – Los Angeles, Community Service Organization (CSO), Fight Back News, and S. Calif. Immigration Coalition

Nora Salas, Phd Candidate, Michigan State University

Todd Mireles - Phd Candidate, Michigan State University   Sara Provenzale: The Media and HB 2281

3:40-4:30 pm IN DEFENSE OF RAZA STUDIES: A SCIENCE OF THE PEOPLE

Pablo Aceves: Community Counselor, member of the Comite de Derechos Humanos Digna Ochoa (San Diego), and the Raza Press and Media Association (RPMA)

Ernesto Bustillos: Teacher, Member of the Raza Press and Media Association and the Association of Raza Educators (A.R.E.)-San Diego.

Cathy Espitia: Member of the Comite de Mujeres, Patricia Marin, coordinator of the Chicano Mexicano Prison Project (San Diego).

Francisco Romero, teacher and member of the Raza Rights Committee, Oxnard, Califaztlan

4:30 -5pm MEAL BREAK

EVENING PROGRAM GALLAGHER THEATER - UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MC Elizabeth Soltero

5:15-6 pm REPORT FROM PHOENIX – BATTLE OVER SB 1070

Salvador Reza, Carlos Garcia,Tupac Enrique Acosta, Shannon Rivers

6-:6:35 pm DIALOGUE: ARIZONA HATE and HOMOPHOBIA

Cherrie Moraga, Celia Rodriguez Raúl Al-qaraz Ochoa

Moderator: Sandy Soto 

6:40-6:55 RAZA STUDIES V. STATE OF ARIZONA LAWSUIT ATTORNEY RICHARD MARTINEZ MC Lane Sanata Cruz

7-7:50 pm ALIANZA INDIGENA SIN FRONTERAS, O'ODHAM SOLIDARITY ACROSS BORDERS COLLECTIVE 

8:00-9:30 pm  DIALOGUE: THE STATE OF ARIZONA

Opening words: Mixelle Rascon  Dolores Huerta Simon Ortiz,  Isabel Garcia,

Moderator: Leilani Clark  

9:30 pm SAFOS THEATER  

SATURDAY DEC 3

7 am    Run/Walk from A MOUNTAIN to El Rio Community Center  Contact: Calpolli Teoxicalli - Teoxicalli@yahoo.com El Rio Neighborhood Center   1390 West Speedway Boulevard Tucson, AZ 85745-2324

10 am-11:30am PLATICA CALPOLLI TEOXICALLI Mazatzin AZTEKAYOLOKALLI: "The Ancient Mexika Chronological System": 

A Human Experience Towards Personal Transcendance, with Global Consequences. AMPHITHEATER EL RIO CC

Menudo Breakfast

Noon -7pm FLORICANTO ARTS/MUSIC FESTIVAL 2 stages Indoor and Outdoor stage

LESLIE MARMON SILKO – CHERRIE MORAGA - FRANCISCO ALARCON - ELENA DIAZ BJORKQUIST – MARIA RAMIREZ – LUKE SALCIDO - CIHUATL CE -  NICO-POETS DEL NORTE - FELICIA FE MONTES – MIXPE– ANDREA HOLM – RAUL ALCARAZ - HEDY TREVINO – ELIAS SERNA – ALEX SOTO – TOLTEKA - TEATRO IZKALLI – SARAH GONZALEZ – NUESTRA VOZ –YWCA - ZARCO – DULCE JUAREZ – SAFOS THEATER – MARGE PELLEGRINO – MIXELLE RASCON – MI’JAN MI’JAN CELIE – SONIA GUTIERREZ - PHOTOGRAPHERS: LAYLA MARIE HERNANDEZ, FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ – ANITA FERNANDEZ – CELESTINO FERNANDEZ – KEVAN CHUC - JOEL 'RAGE.ONE' GARCIA  - EL VUH (PARTIAL LIST)

INDOOR STAGE– poets/musicians/ and several arts/research presentations

MC/Coordinator Andrea Holm: ahholm@email.arizona.edu

The times below represent approximations. 

KEVAN CHUC

Auto de Fe 1562 RESEARCH PLUS IMPROV THEATER

12:00-12:30pm

JUDITH SALCIDO – the music of SANTANA

12:30-12:45 pm

ANITA FERNANDEZ: Prescott Mural Controversy:

12:45-1pm

CELESTINO FERNANDEZ: Sb 1070 Corridos and Multi Media Presentation

1-1:30

ZARCO (MASCARAS TEATRO)

1:30-1:50 pm

MARGE PELLEGRINO - Poet

1:50-2pm

CHERRIE MORAGA – essayist/writer

2-2:40

LESLIE MARMON SILKO - Poet

2:45-3:15pm

FRANCISCO ALARCON

3:15pm-3:45pm

HEDY TREVINO - Poet:

3:50-4pm

ELIAS SERNA: Research presentation/performance

4-4:30pm

MI’JAN MI’JAN CELIE: (415-425-6446) mijancelie@gmail.com

Documentary

4:30-5pm

FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ: Photographer – Documention of Progressive Movements

5-5:20

SAFOS THEATER

5:20-5:30

SONIA GUTIERREZ – writer/poet

5:30-5:45

ELENA DIAZ BJORKQUIST - Poet

5:45-5:55

RAUL ALCARAZ – poetry-spoken word

6-6:10pm  

RAGING GRANNIES - songs

 6:10-6:20

ANDREA HOLM - poetry

6:20-6:30

TEATRO IZKALLI –Theater

6:30—7:15 MINUTES

CLOSING

OUTDOOR STAGE Coordinated/MC by: Westli Narro: wesley_1310@hotmail.com   

2:00 – 2:35pm (35mins) El Vuh

Like public enemy before them, El Vuh uses hip hop to move minds as well as bodies. Unleashing a blistering attack against the two headed beast of ignorance and bigotry, they reminds us that, among other things, xican@s were there long before Los Angeles was home to Hollywood or Arizona was patrolled by minute-men. Along the way in touring the US and Canada performing at student conferences and Universities, they challenge us to live up to our responsibilities to education, family and community.    

2:35 – 2:40pm (5mins) Setup/Intro

2:40 – 3:15pm (35mins) Cui Cui

Who is Irma Delia Pimienta Rangel.

She is also known as Cuicani (singer in Nahuatl) However, many people know her as Cui Cui. Cuicani comes to Tucson with the desire and sincerity to support the importance of this Summit with her love passion and healing energy through the use of her

music,song and dance. Cuicani hales from Los Angeles, California. She is a graduate of D.Q.University in Davis,CA. She has a Degree in Ethnic Studies (Sacramento State)

She was a member of the Royal Chicano Air Force, El Teatro Campesino and Danza Azteca. She has been teaching voice development and sharing her floricanto also as a peacemaker/lightworker for over 30 years. She continues on her journey in support of maintaining the balance for all humanity and our precious universe in the spirit of love and peace...for all my relations!  

3:15 – 3:20pm (5mins) Setup/Intro

3:20 – 3:35 (15mins) DJ Alias

3:35 – 3:40pm (5mins) Setup/Intro

3:40 – 4:05pm (25mins) Student poetry/Open Mic.

4:05 – 4:10pm (5mins) Setup/intro 

*4:10 – 4:40pm (30mins)

Xilan and CozmoBrown as Metate with DJ Lingos

4:40 – 4:45 (5mins) setup/intro

4:45 – 5:00pm (15mins) DJ Alias

5:00 – 5:30pm (30mins) Fe

Felicia Montes is a Xicana Indigenous artist, activist, academic, community/event organizer, and poet/performer/MC from the Los Angeles area.  She is co-founder and coordinating member of the groundbreaking creative’s collectives, Mujeres de Maiz and In Lak Ech and is a graduate of UCLA, CSUN soon Otis College of Art and Design.

5:30 – 5:35 (5mins) setup/intro

5:35 – 6:05pm (30mins) Cihualt-Ce

Cihuatl Ce (Xela, formerly of Cihuatl Tonali) Once a runway now a youth advocate/outreach worker. Her passion for social change is felt within the energy and urgency of her lyrics using music to reach people specifically inner city, ghetto youth. Xela brings it smart, raw, uncensored and unstoppable. Educating while empowering and uplifting, fusing hip hop with indigenous sounds in an effort to share some of the ancient teachings that remain after 515 years of colonization so that they may continue to be passed on, never to be forgotten.

6:05 – 6:10 Setup/Intro

**6:10 – 6:35pm Open mic

6:35 – 6:40 Setup/Intro

**6:40 – 7:10pm Open mic

* Special thanks to Dianne Delima, conference co-coordinator, Andrea Holm, floricanto stage, Westli Narro, hip-hop stage, Damian Baca, Sofia Romero, Lorena Howard (xicanita_2000@yahoo.com) and Lynda Cruz, volunteer coordinators, Veronica Peralta and Tom Gelsinon UA-Mexican American Studies ... and to all those who have volunteered to make this conference a success.