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Show El Congreso at UCSB demand off the internet The following was recieved by Venceremos through E-mail. - March 25, 1994 : To: Concerned Community Members : From: El Congreso the members of *pager El Congreso, the only recognized Chicano/Latino organization at the University of California, Santa Barbara, are asking for your awareness and support. Enclosed in this packet is a list of facts and demands that are being addressed by the -Chicano/Latino community at Why has 1t not been implemented? ; 3. The Chicano Studies Department has remained the - El Congreso do University of California, Re: Ucsb Student Support We “information and updates please contact us. Renee Ojeda (805) 897-285 Santa Barbara Building 406 Santa Barbara, CA. 93106 smallest department on the campus for 25 years. There are 3.5 permanent faculty posi-tions, currently down from an Casillas and an alliance of students called the United Front, came together for the computer lab takeover in UCSB's North Hall, as a last resort in order to meet the needs of the Chicano/Latino community. As a result of this takeover we now have El Centro, known to the University as Building all-time high of 3.75 permanent faculty positions. We demand. . 1. Stop fee hikes for the fiscal 1994-1995 year, save E.O.P. from budget cuts. : 2. Establish a communit center for low income families. 3. Hire 15 F.T.E.'s (full time appointments) and establish a Ph.D. program in Chicano Studies. : : 4. Recruitment and retention Why has the Chicano Studies 406. The concept of El Centro, of Chicano/Latino students. as envisioned by Arnulfo Department been maintained Here's the Situation: 5. Preserve El Centro, buildCasillas, was comprised of five 1. Since 1989 student fees on the margins for 25 years? (Compare the Chicano Studies * components including El img 406... have increased by 160% system 6. Adhere to the UFW Grape wide, and at the same time stu- Department's 3.5 faculty posi- Congreso, Chicano/Latino ! E.O.P., Chicano Studies, La Boycott. dent services have been drasti- tions with other departments These issues are not new. .cally cut. Where isthe balance? - on this campus who have 20, Coleccion Tlaque Nahuaque, These demands are not new. lt and the Center for Chicano 2. In the Spring of 1969, a 30, 40, or even 50 positions!) has been 25 years and the Studies. El Centro now houses 4. For the past 10. years, document called El Plan de present. E administration still has not El Congreso, Chicano Latino Chicano/Latino faculty has - We are asking for your coop-' Santa Barbara was created. This kept its promises or fulfilled E.O.P., and the Chicano increased by only 1/10 of one document serves as a blueprint erationin diseminating this their responsibilities to stuResearch Center. : information to your communi- for instituting the discipline of percent. Why? dents and the community. We These five components must 5. In 1975, a time of heightty at large. If you think that .Chicano Studies, as well as you can support and/or aid in outlying the Universities obli- ened social, political and cul- remain one unit in order to ful- have presented solutions, and they have been almost totally fill its original purpose. El tural awareness, Arnulfo anyway possible or for further gations to the community. Centro is a historic symbol of ignored. We demand action. We want . our struggle, and it is a second to see results now, not in home for many Chicano and las áreas controladas por el alimentación, de salud, de another 25 years. Latino students at UCSB. cuidado, de educación, de indeEZLN. os “Never forget that our rights, According to the plan of library pendencia, de libertad, de Para toda la gente de Méjico: expansion, we are faced with as Chicanos, to be here was democracia, de justicia y de paz. nosotros hombres y mujeres, - de página nueve its destruction. We will not - won by other people who came sino han peleado en contra hechos y libres, conscientes de Nosotros declaramos que no stand for it. — pa : before us and paid, sometimes, cesaremos de luchar hasta que que la guerra como hemos - nuestra y si prometem obedecer 6. Why is it that the UCSB - with their blood. We havea - las órdenes del comando gener- - declarado, es nuestro último' las necesidades indispensables responsibility to those people dining commons and catering al de la “Armada de la recurso; un recurso justo y nece- de nuestra gente se puedan lleservices claim not to buy. to do something about the sario. Los dictadoes han aplica- var a cabo, por intermedio de la Liberación Zapatista”. injustices of this world and - grapes when we have receipts do por muchos años en contra formación de un gobierno en Quinto: Pedimos el renuncithat includes keeping the doors - to prove otherwise? amiento incondicional de los de nuestro pueblo, una guerra nuestro país que sea libre y open for those yet to come.” 7. Tf student Affirmative ) cuarteles del enemigo, antes de genocida y no declarada. Por demócrata. Arnulfo Casillas * Action (SAA) is supposed to UNANSE A LAS FUERZAS comezzar el combate, para eso nosotros, les pedimos su x decimos poder prevenir posibles muertes innecesarias. participación, colaboración y su disposición a favor de éste plan Sexto: Suspender el robo de ' de lucha por nuestros derechos: nuestras riquezas naturales en de trabajo, de tierra, de techo, de POR NUESTRA LUCHA, CON LA ARMADA DE LA LIBERACION NACIONAL ZAPATISTA. 7 _reflect equal representation, then why is it that the popula- -. We welcome all support. For more information call El office at 897-4587 will call back ASAP. * : Thank You. tion of UCSB does not reflect * Congreso the ethnic make-up of the com-munity it is supposed to serve? NAAA PUEDES IT DANZA OCEOLOTL TNT — MEUS» Danza Oceolotl is a group who. 4 Alo forces of wind, water : and fire. The dancers have intertwined the ancient symbols with modern materials. They create colorful costumes, beadwork, feather mosaics with vibrantly colored materials. 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