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October 5-6, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
On behalf of the Steering Committee, please accept our invitation to participate in a National Black Latino Summit that will take place October 5-6, 2008 in
Los Angeles, California .
The idea for this process, which speaks to fulfilling the aspirations of America's two largest minority groups, crystallized at the Third National Summit for Regional Equity held in
New Orleans in March. There, hundreds of Black, Latino, and other activists were excited by the possibilities that emerged and are challenged by the frequent isolation of our efforts. Beginning with the critically needed dialogue regarding African Americans and Latinos, the National Black Latino Summit is envisioned as part of a larger process of alliance building for action, sustainability, and accountability for all ethnic and racial groups.
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by Peter Rachleff
Today's critical labor struggles revolve around immigrants' rights, while today's struggles over immigrants' rights are grounded in workplace and labor organizing. Global, national, and local histories have woven these issues tightly together. In the
U.S. we are seeing the beginnings of a multifaceted movement which engages these dynamically linked histories.
Twenty-five years ago,
U.S. labor activists thought we were enmeshed in a struggle against concessions, fueled by a process of deindustrialization and capital flight. Here in the Midwest, the epicenter of that formation was the Hormel strike of 1985-86, extending from plants in southern Minnesota to Iowa and
Nebraska . Hormel management wanted to reorganize everything about the work in their new flagship plant in
Austin , from the calculation of wage payments to the sharpening of knives, with the intent of replicating these strategies throughout their plants. They pushed veteran workers to retire, while insisting that remaining workers and new hires had no choice in a competitive industry but to accept management's terms. They made similar demands on
Austin city officials -- tax breaks, the construction of infrastructure at public expense, and subsidized access to electric power.
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The 2009 Lozano Long Conference sponsored by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies will have as a topic Contested Modernities: Indigenous and Afrodescendant Experiences in
Latin America . This will be a scholarly gathering to discuss the specific contours of disparate modern experiences in Mesoamerica, the Caribbean and the Andes, where ethnic markers led to fundamentally distinct modernizing processes than elsewhere in the continent.
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La inmigración caribeña y la transnacionalidad literaria en Panamá: una excursión por las calles de la memoria, la reflexión y los espacios en movimiento
En un país como Panamá la entrada en la modernidad del Atlántico significó la inmigración de cientos de trabajadores del Caribe y Asia, tanto por la construcción del ferrocarril como por el Canal. Y esta inmigración no solo fue de trabajadores, sino de también de negociantes y empresarios sefarditas del Caribe holandés, americanos, ingleses y franceses. Esta inmigración transformó los espacios urbanos, las estructuras de clases y la endogámica relación del mercado de emparejamiento y matrimonios. Para los primeros veinte años de la República ya habían emigrado a Panamá treinta mil trabajadores que se concentraban en las llamadas ciudades terminales de Panamá y Colón, ya no se hablaba solamente español, sino que el inglés (y el patuá caribeño de las antillas inglesas) inundaba las calles de esas ciudades donde también había cientos de lectores de periódicos en lengua inglesa ávidos de información actualizada.
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Conference
Bronx Neighborhoods
Fordham University, October 23 and 24, 2009
Goals: The conference will address the significant presence of African and West Indian immigrants in the Bronx and encourage critical scholarly and public policy attention to these communities. It will demonstrate the vital cultural, economic, religious and political contributions of these two immigrant groups and promote them as important sites for scholarly research. The conference will establish a connection between
Fordham
University and the immigrant communities and will act as a springboard for future collaborations, not only between the scholarly community and these immigrants, but also amongst the community organizations. It will also bring Fordham and the Bronx African American History Project local and national recognition for innovative research on immigration history.
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