Black History Month (BHM) Celebration

Dear REFORMISTAS
I invite you all to attend this informative and fun event. Join me!
Yolanda A.

The Unfinished Battle for Quality Public Schools

Sunday, February 20, 2:00 p.m.

Freed slaves, together with white sharecroppers, won universal, free, integrated public schools for the first time in U.S. history during the post-Civil War reconstruction era. Now, privatizers and budget-cutters want to take it all away. Come to an open discussion and celebration of the ongoing struggle to defend and improve free, quality public education.

Speakers:
Lillian Thompson—African American elementary school teacher, fighter for bilingual education, union representative and organizer against school giveaways to charter companies.

Yuisa Gimeno—Radical Women Organizer and advocate for quality public education in the LA March 4th Committee to Defend Public Education and Services.

Doors open at 1:30pm, $3 donation requested. A Southern-style dinner with vegetarian option will be served after the program at 4:30pm for a $10 donation.
(Work exchanges available for low income, no one turned away for lack of funds.) The forum will be held at Solidarity Hall, 2170 W. Washington Bl. Los Angeles, off the 10 freeway, on bus lines 35, 207 & 550.

Co-sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.
For more information call 323-732-6416, email fspla@earthlink.net or visit www.socialism.com

Meet and Greet

Thursday, February 3, 2011 at the Library Bar, 630 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, near the downtown library. Everyone is invited to attend and there will be a summary of this meeting presented to those who were not able to attend Saturday’s meeting. See you there at 7:30 p.m.

REFORMA Los Angeles Meeting Saturday, January 29 · 10:00am

Join us and see what REFORMA Los Angeles is planning this year. New members are always welcome, so bring a friend. Applications will be available at the meeting. Refreshments will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Location:
Huntington Park Public Library

6518 Miles Ave.

Huntington Park, CA

2010 Scholarship Winners

On November 21^st, the Chapter hosted a luncheon at Mijares Restaurant in Pasadena to award the scholarship winners. The winners along with their families joined LA Chapter members for a tasty luncheon.

The winners are:

Elizabeth Martinez Scholarship

Xochitl Oliva, UCLA, ($1,000)

Lorena Villegas, SJSU ($800)

Dr. Karin Duran Scholarship

Jessica Davila Greene, SJSU ($1,000)

Congratulations again to all the winners!

2010 Scholarship Fundraiser

The Los Angeles Chapter of REFORMA awarded scholarships to three recipients for the 2010-2011 Elizabeth Martinez and Dr. Karin Duran Scholarships. Each year the LA Chapter hosts a fundraiser to gather funds. This year the chapter raised funds to award (2) $1000 and (1) $800 scholarships. Thanks to the scholarship committee for putting on a great scholarship luncheon in August 2010 at Huntington Park Community Center.

Reminder: This Saturday the 6th of February will be our first chapter meeting for 2010.
It will be held at:
East Los Angeles Library
4837 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90022-1601
(323) 264-0155

See you there at 10:00 a.m.!
New members are welcomed. We will have applications at the meeting.

41.9 Million and Counting: A Statistical View of Hispanics at Mid-Decade

The Report

"This has been a notable year for Hispanics in the United States. The large-scale immigration rallies in the spring and the policy debate over immigration drew the attention of the American public -- as well as a wider global audience -- to the social, legal and economic complexities often associated with a population group that is both growing and changing very quickly. So, where do Hispanics in the U.S. stand and where are they headed?

The Pew Hispanic Center's Statistical Portrait of Hispanics at Mid-Decade offers a detailed look at a range of social, economic and housing characteristics tabulated from a new Census Bureau data source. The American Community Survey, fully implemented for the first time in 2005, now draws on a yearly sample of about three million addresses, making it by far the largest household survey in the United States. Previously, demographic data on this scale was only available once every 10 years when a full census was conducted.

The statistical profile, in the form of 32 tables, highlights the ever-increasing importance of chronicling Hispanic trends longitudinally as well as according to differences in place of origin, nativity, age and gender. Understanding the internal diversity of the Latino population is proving indispensable to any assessment of its current status and most certainly its future in the latter half of the decade or beyond."