Thursday March 26, 2009 - 6-8pm
Pima Downtown Campus - Amethyst Community Room
Talk with Betita Martinez on Women and Activism.
Rally and sign making for Cesar chavez Marcha
Hosted by
Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan - MEXA and Tierra Y Libertad Organiozation - TYLO host Betita Martinez author of De Colores Means all of us, 500 years of Chicana History and founder of the Multiracial Justice Insitute
Come by and listen to Betita and make make a sign for the March
Nopal Books Fundraising Project will be vending.
Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez has been an author, social justice activist and organizer for over 50 years. She has published six books and countless articles on social justice movements in the Americas. Best known is her acclaimed bilingual volume 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures—1991, which became the basis for a video she co-directed. Her books include;
Letters from Mississippi: Reports from Civil Rights Volunteer—1964
The Youngest Revoluton: A Personal Report on Cuba.—1969
Viva la Raza!: The struggle of the Mexican American People—1974
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century—1998
500 Years of Chicana Women’s History—2008
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