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Migrant News
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Breakfast honors legacy of Cesar Chavez
Author :: Nathan Botts
Date :: Tue 04/01/2008 @ 03:06
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Events to recognize civil rights leader
By Hiram Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – When organizers put together the first Cesar E. Chavez commemorative breakfast, about 90 people showed up. Yesterday, the 10th annual breakfast at the San Diego Convention Center drew 1,500 guests.
“It's a great accomplishment, but our goal is not just in the numbers,” said Guadalupe Corona, one of the organizers. “Our goal is to be able to educate through the breakfast the values and the legacy that Cesar Chavez left us.”
This year that job fell to several people rather than one keynote speaker.
Human-rights activist Andrea Guerrero of the American Civil Liberties Union talked about the value of “acceptance of all people” and how the county needs to do a better job offering information in languages other than English during emergencies such as the October wildfires.
Educator Maria Chavez's topic was “celebrating community.” She spoke of the success of the countywide migrant education program she leads, which helps farmworkers and their children achieve their education goals.
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Estela de los Rios of the Center for Social Advocacy talked about the need for minorities to register to vote, while San Diego District Attorney Oscar Garcia, who heads the hate crimes unit and the Regional Hate Crimes Coalition, spoke about tolerance.
“Every year we hold educational contests with schools throughout the county where we ask students to present programs to us which embrace some of Cesar Chavez key principles; education, nonviolence, tolerance and diversity,” he said.
Chavez fought on behalf of farmworkers until his death in 1993. He co-founded the United Farm Workers and negotiated the first industrywide farm labor contracts.
California will honor the late civil rights leader on Monday with a state holiday, and organizers continue to push for a national holiday.
“This is a 'Sí, se puede' (yes we can) movement to honor one of the most important civil rights leader of the 20th century,” said Evelina Alarcon of the Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday Foundation.
Alarcon said 13 states have set aside days honoring Chavez.
Related activities are planned this weekend, including a parade starting at 10 a.m. tomorrow at 28th Street and Ocean View Boulevard. A Mass is planned for 6 p.m. Sunday at Our Lady of Guadalupe church in Barrio Logan.
 Hiram Soto: (619) 293-2027; hiram.soto@uniontrib.com
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The Region IX Mobile Lab is For Students from 5 to 95 Years!
Author :: Mike Bragg
Date :: Thu 01/24/2008 @ 07:41
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The Mobile Lab has Leap Frog lessons and Internet programs that help Region IX students of ALL ages!
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With several Compac PC stations, and a complete selection of Leap Frog learning computers, visitors to the mobile lab can work on verbal, audio, and written skills in either Spanish or English.
NEW TO THE MOBILE LAB / Effective 2/1//08:
Parents with friends and relatives in Latin America can stay in touch with Gmail, a free Internet-based e-mail system that lets people keep in touch with anyone in the world that has an Internet connection and an e-mail account. The staff on board the mobile lab will be happy  to assist visitors 18 years or older in setting up and using their own personal (and free) e-mail accounts (subject to mobile lab Internet wireless connectivity at visited locations).
Reservations for the Region IX Mobile Learning Lab are on a first-scheduled/first reserved basis. Check availability by e-mailing mbwords@yahoo.com
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Foothill Oak E.S. Hosts Migrant Ed. Mobile Lab
Author :: Mike Bragg
Date :: Thu 01/24/2008 @ 07:19
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Parents and students braved the cold, rainy night of Wednesday, January 23 to come to Foothill Oak Elementary School.
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After the parent meeting started, students got their umbrellas ready and headed outside to board Region IXs Mobile Learning Lab. The lab was packed with students, and even a few parents who were eager to work on their written and verbal skills, using the Leap Frog learning computers.
Because of the windy, rainy weather, the Internet connection went out on the Compac PC stations  , but everyone was so busy with the Leap Frog lessons, no one noticed.
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Migrant Ed. Mobile Learning Lab Visits Alvin Dunn E.S.
Author :: Mike Bragg
Date :: Thu 01/24/2008 @ 06:57
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Students whose parents attended the meeting at Alvin Dunn Elementary School on the evening of January 15 climbed aboard the Mobile Learning Lab for an hour or so of homework, independant study, and introduction to the exciting new Leapfrog hand-held computers.
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In addition to the Leapfrog learning tools, the mobile lab also has
several Compac computers, and Sony high-definition monitors. Students can bring their
homework files on a thumb-drive or a CD-Rom, put it in one of the PCs and study away. The lab
also has two supervised Internet stations.
Reservations for the mobile lab in the Region IX area can be made by e-mailing Mike Bragg at mbwords@yahoo.com
The Mobile Lab calendar is filling up fast. Please request your reservation with as much advance notice as possible, as the lab is scheduled on a first-come-first serve basis.
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Honor Student - 2008 Migrant Parent Conference
Author :: Nathan Botts
Date :: Wed 12/05/2007 @ 11:50
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Congratulations to Damian Leon!
 Damian will be the 2008 Honor Student representing Region IX at the State Migrant Parents Conference.
Read further to find out more about this amazing student.
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From Damian's biography:
ENGLISH:
My life is a complicated one. My mom is a cancer survivor, my father is the sole provider of our family, and my brother is handicapped. To top it all off, we are immigrants. Nevertheless, I am within the top four percent of my class. It is my goal to become an engineer so that I may be a useful contributor to society while working with what I do best: math and science.
SPANISH:
Mi vida es complicada. Mi mama ha sobrevivido cancer, mi papa es el unico proveedor de nuestra familia, y mi hermano esta incapacitado. Para colmo, toda nuestra familia son inmigrantes. Aun asi, estoy entre el mejor cuatro por ciento de mi clase. Es mi meta ser un ingeniero para que pueda ser util en nuestra sociedad mientras que hago lo que me encanta hacer más de todo: matematicas y ciencia.
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