MARCHA! Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement and more at Batey Urbano

Dear all:  Please pass the word to your students, colleagues and friends.
Thank you.


The Marcha! book presentations continue in the community -- Please join us
for this special presentation, photo exhibit and dialogue.



Marcha! Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement

 Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 5:00 p.m.,

 Batey Urbano

 2620 W. Division Street

*WELCOME** *

**Nilda Flores–Gonzalez, LALS/ Sociology, UIC


*Representing “La Familia” Family Separation and Immigration Activism*

 Amalia Pallares, LALS/ Political Science, UIC


*Grappling with Latinidad Puerto Rican Activism  in Chicago’s Pro-Immigrant
Rights Movement*

Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz, Sociology, Brown University


Photography Collective Jhonathan F. Gomez, artist, activist, photographer

with A traveling photo exhibit which includes de works of:


   - Yesterday,Today and Tomorrow Photography Collective
   -  Victor Espinosa
   -  Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune photographer


This event is free and open to the general public.  For more information
please call (312)  996-2445.    ~  Refreshments  ~



Sponsors:   The University of Illinois at Chicago Latin American and Latino
Studies Program,  Batey Urbano  and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center Juan
Antonio Corretjer.

Marta Elena Ayala
Community Affairs Specialist
University of Illinois at Chicago
Latin American and Latino Studies Program
(MC 219)
601 S. Morgan Street -   UH 1525
Chicago, IL  60607
(312) 996-2445   (312) 996-1796