Hundreds of students from throughout the state will gather at Sonoma State to participate in the Spring 2008 California Statewide MEChA Conference on Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. This will be the first time the Sonoma chapter of MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan), has hosted the
biannual conference.
On Friday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in the Cooperage, Adelina Anthony will be performing "La Angry Xicana?!" Adelina's new, full-length stand-up comedy features her trademark salacious, brazen, Spanglish humor and flirts with all kinds of cultural taboos.
"La Angry Xicana?!" weaves together critiques on Hollywood, the U.S. corporate media, conservative politics, LGBT community health issues, religious icons, post-welfare life.
Following the performance, a screening of the documentary "Made in L.A." will be shown at 10 p.m. "Made in L.A." follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21.
Lifelong Chicano educator Sal Castro will speak on Saturday, April 26 at 9 a.m. at the Lakes as the keynote speaker. Castro, is a life-long Los Angeles school teacher with a national reputation as a school reformer. He has been a driving force behind the Chicano Youth Leadership Conference, an annual event that serves to empower Raza students every year, since 1963.
Castro is most well-known for his important role as an organizer of the famous 1968 blowouts when thousands of Chicana/o high school and junior high school students walked out of their schools in protest of years of inferior education.
For more information regarding this event, contact Omar A. Medina at (707) 318-6631.
