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March 5th: Apply for your Local School
Council!
Tomorrow, March 5th, LVCDC, Telpochcalli
Community Education Project, WestTown Leadership United, and Café Catedral present
workshops on applying to your local school council. Please bring 2 forms of ID
and enthusiasm to get involved in your local school community!
Cathedral Café
2500 S. Christiana
10 am-1 pm
Toman Library
2708 S.
Pulaski; community room
6-8 pm
For more
information contact Julian: (773) 542-9233 x21 or jlazalde@lvcdc.org
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Latinos United Releases Bajo el Mismo
Techo
What: Housing
Roundtable
Date: Tuesday,
March 25th, 2008
Time: 9:00-11:30
AM.
Place: Sonnenschein
Nath & Rosenthal LLP
78th Floor
of the Sears Tower
233 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
60606
Latinos
United is proud to announce the completion of our housing overcrowding study Bajo el Mismo Techo
(Under the Same Roof), The Latino Community in Suburban Chicago: An Analysis of
Overcrowded Housing, to be released at a Housing
Roundtable event. The Bajo el Mismo Techo Roundtable is the culmination of
Latinos United's efforts towards forwarding an empowering and thoughtful
housing policy agenda for Latinos throughout the Greater Chicago area. This
report provides a summary of available knowledge on housing overcrowding and
some of the issues involved in policy development.
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Scholarships Available
for the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform
The fourth National
Conference for Media Reform is set for June 6-8, 2008 in Minneapolis, MN.
The event will be an exciting, inspiring three-day gathering for people who are
concerned about the state of our media and committed to working for change. The
conference will convene thousands of activists, educators, media makers,
journalists, policymakers and concerned citizens to discuss how to create a
better media system.
In order to maximize the
range of voices represented at the conference, Free Press has raised funds to
offer travel scholarships and registration fee waivers to offset attendance
costs for a number of individuals who would otherwise be unable to attend.
Please go to http://www.freepress.net/conference/=scholarship08
for more information and to apply. The scholarship application deadline is
March 31, 2008.
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Carina: Su Mejor Amiga Expands to One Hour!
With great
pleasure we announce that, beginning today, the Spanish-language radio program
"Carina: Su Mejor Amiga" will be heard from 1:00 - 2:00 PM weekdays
on 750 AM. Carina recently celebrated 12 years on the air in Chicago and this
expansion from 30 minutes to an hour daily is made possible by sponsorship from
HARRIS BANK, ATTORNEY MATTHEW KATZ (Katz Law Office, LTD), CECILIA KLEINER of CENTURY
21 and all of the loyal listeners that always support Carina. We invite
you to visit our web page where you will get information about Casa de Carina's
activities and where you can listen to the radio program 24 hours per day.
www.CasaDeCarina.com
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Rebecca Jones Habla en Defensa de la Mujer
"Donde hay violencia,
no hay placer"
(Where there is violence, there is no pleasure)
Poetic, Historical, Dramatic, Comic, and Musical Presentation
Original work by Rebecca Jones and Jose Luis Vargas
This dramatic presentation will be in Spanish
The National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W. 19th
Street Chicago
Friday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20; Students and Teachers with ID: $17 Information: 312-491-9792
