Program

LEAD Summit XI
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Santos Manuel Student Union, CSUSB

Program Detail

8:00 AM: Check-In / Live Music / Web Cast Live Interviews

• Continental Breakfast – Distribution of Packets – Optional Course Credit Registration
• Live Entertainment (Exhibits Lobby Stage ) - Saludo Artistico featuring  MARTIN ESPINO "Sounds of Ancient Mexico"
• Live Entertainment (Events Center Stage) - Saludo Artistico featuring Grupo Fénix (de Melinda)

9:00 AM: Opening Ceremony

• Invocation - Very Rev. Msgr. Gerard M. Lopez, STL, Vicar General, Diocese of San Bernardino, and His Excellency, The Most Reverend Alberto Rojas, Coadjutor Bishop of San Bernardino
• Color Guard Presentation / Pledge of Allegiance
  Air Force Junior ROTC, West Covina High School
  Jesus Acuña-Perez, Capt. (ret) USAF, Senior Aerospace Science Instructor, West Covina High School
• National Anthem- Star Kafovalu-Wildes, Academic Advisor and Social Media Coordinator
  Advising & Academic Services, CSUSB

9:15 AM: Procession –“Honoring of the Movement Elders” / Procesión – “Honrando a los Mayores del Movimiento”

Welcome to the 11th year anniversary of our annual Latino Education and Advocacy Days Summit - LEAD.  Our network is made up of the broad spectrum of researchers, teaching professionals and educators, academics, scholars, administrators, independent writers and artists, policy and program specialists, students, parents, families, civic leaders, activists, and advocates. In short, those sharing a common interest and commitment to educational issues that impact Chicano - Latinos.  Read more about this year's LEAD Procession.

Intercessors:

• Makuil Ollin Ocelotl Aztec Dance Calpulli

Grand Marshals:

• Cynthia Barajas, Brown Berets
  Historical Mexican / Mexican American / Chicano
  Community of Casa Blanca - Riverside, California
• José Angel Gutiérrez, Professor, Attorney, Activist
  and 2019 LEAD Summit Padrino de Honor

9:30 AM: Welcome Remarks / Bienvenida

• Dr. Timothy White (video message)
  Chancellor, California State University System
• Dr. Tomás D. Morales (video message)
  President,  California State University, San Bernardino
• Dr. Paz Olivérez
  Vice President for Student Affairs, California State University, San Bernardino
• Dr. Chinaka S. DomNwachukwu
  Dean, College of Education, California State University, San Bernardino

10:00 AM: Featured Speaker - “The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry”

• Introduction / Moderator - Dr. Judy Rodriguez Watson, Senior Vice President of the J. R. Watson & Associates Development Corp., and 2011 LEAD Summit Madrina de Honor
• Featured Speaker: Cheech Marin, Actor, Director, Comedian, Author, and Chicano Art Collector

Cheech Marin's art collection to become nation's first Chicano museum

10:35 AM: Break / Un Cafecito & Vendor / Exhibits Fair

• Live Entertainment  (Exhibit Lobby Stage) - Cuarteto de Cuerdas de Estudiantes de la Facultad de Bellas Artes, Con Sus Invitadas Espéciales, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
• Coffee Provided

Marco Antonio Cristóbal Martínez (Viola), Yadira Mayrani Bustamante Martinez (Violin), Julia Ortiz Aragon (Violin), 

Adelina Selena Hipolito Carreño  (Cello), Valeria Montellano Urbieta (Vocals), and Nery Yazmin Cruz Matias (Vocals)

10:50 AM: Panel - “Movimiento y Compromiso: History, Goals and the 50 Years of Challenges and Accomplishments”

Mexican Americans have fought for rights, dignity, and cultural freedom for centuries; and the struggle has taken on many different forms over the various historical eras. The Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1950s, also known as the Mexican American and/or Chicano civil rights movement, or simply El Movimiento, is one of the least studied social movements of the U.S..  Principal social justice issues included discrimination and ethnic stereotyping, addressing asymmetrical power relations, segregation and unequal education, and voting and political rights. The goals encompassed a broad cross section such as restoration of land grants, to migrant agricultural and farm workers’ rights, to educational reforms, to self-determination, and to civic engagement and citizenship drives.

• Introduction / Moderator - Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Co-Founder of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University-Long Beach, and President of the California-Mexico Studies Center
• Luis C. Garza, La Raza Magazine Photographer and Curator of Autry Museum “La Raza” Exhibition
• Dr. Silas Abrego - Member, Board of Trustees (2015-2021), The California State University

La Raza

11:30 AM: Panel –“Taking Back the Schools: the Educational Legacy of the East Los Angeles Walkouts”

In March 1968, Mexican-American students from five East Los Angeles high schools led the largest student protest in U.S. history. Students walked out of their classes to protest the unequal conditions and substandard quality of their education in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. Within two weeks, more than 20,000 high school students in the city walked out of their high schools in support of the protesters. It was the first major mass protest against racism by Mexican-Americans. While the Mexican-American students who led, organized and carried out the protests, known as the East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts, were primarily concerned with the quality of their education, they were also motivated by the high minority death toll in the Vietnam War and the ongoing civil rights campaigns of the Chicano Movement.

• Introduction / Moderator - Alberto Juárez, Adjunct Professor, Political Science & Chicano Studies, Pasadena City College & LA Mission College
• Paula Crisostomo, Retired Educator, and 1968 Lincoln High School Student
• Rachael Ochoa Cervera, Retired Educator, and 1968 LA City College Student, Roosevelt High School Grad (Go Rough Riders)
• Victoria Castro, Retired LAUSD Teacher, Principal and School Board Member, and 1968 Cal State LA Student

1968 East L.A. Walkouts

12:10 PM: Buffet Lunch & Networking - Vendor / Exhibits Fair

• Live Entertainment  (Exhibit Lobby Stage) - Cuarteto de Cuerdas de Estudiantes de la Facultad de Bellas Artes, Con Sus Invitadas Espéciales, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
• Lunch Provided (Events Center - Rear)

Marco Antonio Cristóbal Martínez (Viola), Yadira Mayrani Bustamante Martinez (Violin), Julia Ortiz Aragon (Violin), 

Adelina Selena Hipolito Carreño  (Cello), Valeria Montellano Urbieta (Vocals), and Nery Yazmin Cruz Matias (Vocals)

12:45 PM: Panel – “In the Name of Cultural and Linguistic Pride: the Impact and Promises of Bilingualism, Bilingual Education & Title VII-BEA”

Conceivably the most misunderstood yet urgent issue affecting schools has been meeting the needs of students who are not yet proficient in the English language.  Amid the intersections and historical connections between the struggles against segregation, anti-immigrant racism, and the Chicano civil rights movement led to the passage of the Bilingual Education Act (BEA) of 1968.  “Bilingual education” refers to the use of two languages in education for different purposes. The BEA represented one of the most significant advances and educational reforms for the education of emergent bilingual students.

1:25 PM: Featured Speaker – “Social Justice at Home: the Chicano Moratorium and the Power of Protest”

The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. Led by activists from local colleges and members of the Brown Berets, a group with roots in the high school student movement that staged walkouts in 1968, the coalition peaked with an August 29, 1970 march in East Los Angeles that drew 30,000 demonstrators. It was the largest demonstration during the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, the most significant civil rights and community empowerment movement by Mexican Americans in the country to that time, and helped lay the foundation for today’s Latino political power.

• Introduction / Moderator - Rev. Richard Estrada, Justice Now Minister at The Historic Church of the Epiphany, and Former Associate Pastor of Our Lady Queen of Angels “La Placita” Church
• Featured Speaker: Rosalío Urias Muñoz, Chicano Journalist and Activist

LATINOPIA HERO ROSALIO MUNOZ

          
(The National Chicano Moratorium Protest/March was held on August 29, 1970)

2:00 PM: Break / Un Cafecito & Vendor / Exhibits Fair

• Live Entertainment  (Exhibit Lobby Stage) - Cuarteto de Cuerdas de Estudiantes de la Facultad de Bellas Artes, Con Sus Invitadas Espéciales, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca
• LEAD Cake and Coffee Provided

Marco Antonio Cristóbal Martínez (Viola), Yadira Mayrani Bustamante Martinez (Violin), Julia Ortiz Aragon (Violin), 

Adelina Selena Hipolito Carreño  (Cello), Valeria Montellano Urbieta (Vocals), and Nery Yazmin Cruz Matias (Vocals)

2:10 PM: Capstone Presentation – “Moving Past the Nostalgia: From the Origins of El Plan de Santa Bárbara for Higher Education and Chicano Studies, Toward the Continuing Quest for Educational Equity”

The anniversaries of the historic events of the Chicano Movement should be remembered and commemorated, yet while they are of great educative value, what holds most true today is that the economic, social and political issues, and conditions with which the Chicano movements grappled 50 years ago have yet to be resolved. The intergenerational challenges remain, such as education, labor, indigeneity, civil, human and immigration rights abuses. Further, while it is tempting to stroll down memory lane and mire in the nostalgic and radical past of militancy and “war stories”, the thematic strands of LEAD 2020 hope to move past the unvarying nostalgia.

We ask, as veteranos/elders of the movimiento, how to replace us (sooner rather than later)? How can succeeding generations, many who feel disconnected from these long-ago events, engage in the network of interlocking issues, equip their civic, educational, and advocacy competencies, and ultimately grab the baton and continue the struggle? How to mentor for community building, social justice, and educational equity? How to build commitment (compromiso)? Stated simply, how to learn from the past, discern the present, and quest toward the future?

• Introduction / Moderator - Prof. Armando Vazquez-Ramos, Co-Founder of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University-Long Beach, and President of the California-Mexico Studies Center
• Maria Guadalupe Gallegos-Diaz, MSW, Director - Chicanx Latinx Academic Student Development Center, University of California-Berkeley
• Dr. José B. Cuéllar (Dr. Loco), Musician, Anthropologist and, Professor Emeritus of  Latino Studies. San Francisco State University

Latinopia Event                Plan de Santa Barbara 50th Anniversary Conference 2019 at UCSB

         
(Chicano activists rally in front of Campbell Hall in a photo that now appears on the wall of North Hall on the UC Santa Barbara campus.)

3:15 PM: Concluding Remarks & Acknowledgements / Despedida

* Sessions schedule subject to change.  Please check back to see the most up to date schedule of events.