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Raza/Barrio Book Festival Saturday March 6, 2010 Out Of The Barrel Of The Pen BOOKS AS WEAPONS OF STRUGGLE RAZA PRESS AND MEDIA ASSOCIATION (RPMA)
CENTRO CULTURAL FRANCISCO VILLA 2100 Maple Ave, Los Angeles, CA, Mexico Ocupado
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 12: 00 Sign in, view the exhibition of books, art, etc. 12:15 Welcome-MC/Kelly Flores (Centro F. Villa, Unión del Barrio) Guitar Solo by Anthony Martin 12:30 Introduction To Program/and Keynote Speakers 12:45 Keynote Speaker Francisco Romero (author of Revolutionary Reflections, RPMA) 1:15 Solidarity Speaker Penny Hess (author of Overturning The Culture of Violence, Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee , St. Petersburg, FL.) 2:15 Round Table of Authors/Scholars (Facilitator, Benjamin Prado, La Verdad, RPMA) •Ernesto Bustillos (Chicano Journalism: Its History and Its Use As A Weapon For Liberation, San Diego) •Lucia Laguna (Chicano Studies Student CSUN) •Victor Ochoa (Chicano Park Murals, muralist-artist, San Diego) Benjamin Olguin (La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics, Austin, Tx) •Laura Pulido (Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism In Los Angeles, Professor, USC, Los Angeles) •Irene Vazquez (Editor, Borders Within Us: Three Global Diasporas, Associate Professor, CSU Dominguez Hills) •Devra Weber(Dark Sweat, White Gold: CA. Cotton, Farm Workers and the New Deal, Professor, UC Riverside) 4:00 Dialogue/Round Table 4:45 Cultural Entertainment Songs by Lucia Laguna 5:00 Closing Remarks
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