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Resistencia Bookstore
casa de Red Salmon Arts
1801-A South First St.
Austin, Texas
(512) 416-8885
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Sep 29th, 2011 @ 3:49 pm
Cintli Presentation Flyer (by salmonrojo)
7pm Friday September 30, 2011
Red Salmon Arts
in collaboration with the Indigenous Cultures Institute (San Marcos, Tejas)presents a plática/presentation by
Roberto ”Dr. Cintli“ Rodríguez
Indigenous journalist, activist, & teacher
Battling anti immigrant & anti indigenous sentiments, Roberto “Dr. Cintli” Rodríguez is one of many activists & organizers on the frontlines struggling to preserve ethnic studies programs in Arizona.
Rodríguez currently teaches at the University of Arizona and is a longtime, award-winning journalist and columnist. He was launched to national prominence when he and over a dozen students were arrested in a sit-in at the state education offices, protesting that the Mexican American Ethnic Studies program in Tucson’s K-12 school district were declared illegal.
**On that same Friday and on Saturday Sept. 30, Dr. Rodríguez will also participate in several speak engagements in San Marcos, TX organized & sponsored by the Indigenous Cultures Institute. FMI contact: María Rocha, (512) 393-3310; ICIinfo @ IndigenousCultures.org
To read his journalistic writings: http://drcintli.blogspot.com/
