TUCSON/ARIZONA ALTERNATIVE 2016 SPRING BREAK

March 11-13 Tucson Book Festival
March 14 Revolutionary Book (Banned books) Day:Several sites proposed
March 15 Theater/Filmfest Day (Pima Community College proposed)
March 16: proposed: all day immigration activities: Derechos Humanos and the Binational Migration Institute
Operation Streamline, the border, Eloy immigration detention center
March 17 = All day Indigenous Knowledges Gathering (Global Justice Center)
https://www.facebook.com/indigenousknowledgegathering…
March 17 eve reception): National Association for Ethnic Studies
March 18-19: National Association for Ethnic Studies Conf.
http://ethnicstudies.org/           https://www.facebook.com/groups/5760800764/

March 18-20 National MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan) Conference:https://www.facebook.com/TucsonMecha2016?fref=ts

• Some of the topics expected to be covered in these conferences: The border and its affects on Indigenous peoples, Mexicans and Central American peoples, particularly youth and women, the 2020 Census Bureau; the attack and spread of Ethnic/Raza/Indigenous Studies; violence against people of color; hate in the 2016 electoral campaigns.