Resource Center of the Americas
RCTA Event Update for April 23, 2009:
1. Coffee Hour
2. Intercambio
3. Friday Night Movie Month
4. New Service Learning Summer Spanish Class
5. Beginning One Spanish Summer Class
6. Harmony Beyond Boundaries- April 24th
7. Mujeres en Liderazgo Rally at the Capitol!
8. March with the Resource Center on May 1st!
9. May 1st, 2009: March and Street Festival
10. Resonating Change: Connecting Communities through Fair Trade
11. Teatro del Pueblo presents: The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico
12. Colombian Presentation by Michele Braley and Nils Dybvig
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Glaciers Cafe:
Located in the RCTA Building and known for Award Winning Frozen Custard, with a full menu of healthy and delicious fast food including sandwiches, salads, and homemade soups and chilies.
Saturday's Special is Stuffed Beef Burrito with Tortilla Chips for $6.95
RCTA Members receive a 10% discount at Glaciers!
Follow this link to become a member: http://ent.groundspring.org/
Northern Sun Merchandising
An independent, locally-owned national mail-order business and retail store providing "products for progressives" since 1979.
http://ent.groundspring.org/
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1. Coffee Hour 4/25 10:00am-11:30am
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Please note Coffee Hours are now a suggested donation of $5 for members and $6 for non-members
Join us for a special Earth Day Coffee Hour: BANANAS, COFFEE BEANS, GRINGOS AND MICROCHIPS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE COSTA RICAN ECONOMY AND ITS SUSTAINABILITY
The presentation will be given by Jose A. Hernandez. Jose is originally from Costa Rica and is now an extension educator in agriculture at the University of Minnesota.
2. Intercambio Language Exchange
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Saturday, April 25, 12-1:30pm
Join us for interesting discussions between Spanish and English students. We will spend a half hour getting to know each other and getting an introduction to the topic then will spend a half hour speaking in Spanish and a half hour speaking in English.
Discusiones interesantes entre estudiantes de español y ingles. Pase una hora y media hablando en ambos idiomas.
3. April is Friday Night Movie Month
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Join us for a month of Friday Night Films
All films will take place at 7pm. A short discussion will follow each film. A suggested donation of $5 is appreciated.
**Please note our next film is not until May 8th**
Friday, May 8th- Killer's Paradise
Guatemala: Where killing women is the fashion but finding their killers is not.
Friday, May 15th- Recycled Life
The story of the human spirit rising from the largest dump in Central America
4. New Service Learning Summer Spanish Class- Registration Now Open!
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In this class students will become more familiar with the relationship between the global economic system, emigration from Latin-America, federal immigration reform, human rights issues, and Latino contributions to U.S. culture and economy.
This course combines classroom discussion, volunteer service with the Latino community, and visits to Minneapolis organizations involved in advocacy work, education and business. This dynamic format challenges students to deepen their understandings of some complex issues in our community.
Class will meet for five, two-hour sessions at the Resource Center. Additionally, students will schedule and coordinate volunteer time with community organizations, completing approximately 10 hours of volunteer community service.
Class Dates and Times:
Week 1 - Tues, June 23 6:30-8:30
Week 2 - Tues, June 30 6:30-8:30
Week 3 - Tues, July 14 6:30-8:30
Week 4 - Tues, July 2114 6:30-8:30
Week 5 - Tues, July 2814 6:30-8:30
Classes will be held in English. Students are expected to have at least a basic level of Spanish proficiency and will be paired with organizations/volunteer opportunities matching their Spanish proficiency.
Students must arrange transportation to attend class, participate in visits outside of class and volunteer at a community organization that may be anywhere in the Twin Cities metro.
Instructor Bio
Kathleen Ganley has been teaching courses on Latino immigration and service-learning at the University of MN for 13 years. She has worked with 15 - 20 organizations and placed nearly 2000 students in community service positions during that time. Kathleen has lived in Spain, Peru and Mexico and has been involved in the Latino immigrant community in Minnesota for 24 years.
Registration and Fees
Registration deadline May 29th. Space is limited to 12 students. Registrations will be accepted on a first come first serve basis and your class payment secures your spot.
To register, email stephanie.bates@americas.org or call 612-276-0788 x1. This class costs $100 for Non-Members or $90 for Members.
Please see our website at http://ent.groundspring.org/
5. Beginning One Spanish offered this Summer
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We will be offering Beginning Proficiency level one Spanish Classes Tuesday evenings this summer. Classes will be 10 weeks and will begin Tuesday, June 16th
What: Beginning one Spanish
When: 10 weeks starting Tuesday June 16th from 6:30-8:30pm
Who: You!
Why: To learn a new language and bridge cultures!
6. Harmony Beyond Boundaries- April 24th
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Friday, April 24, 2009
7:00pm
Hamline Methodist Church
1514 Englewood Ave., St. Paul
Admission is free but personal contributions will be welcomed. Donations can be made to RCTA, Friends School and Friends for a Non-Violent World.
Four musical performances inspired by different regions throughout the Americas.
Carlos Diaz, Nick Carter, Russell Packard and Miriam Larson
7. Mujeres en Liderazgo Rally at the Capitol!
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Come support the campaign for Driver's Licenses for All!
Monday, April 27
11:00-1:00pm
Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda
75 Rev. Martin Luther Kind Drive
If everyone had access to driver's licneses:
*OUr communities would be Safer!
*Everyone could have access to auto insurance!
*Immigrant families would have access to better jobs and could contribute more to the economy!
If you need transportation to the rally, call Jovita or Maria at 612-721-1681. The bus will leave at 10:00am from Waite House(2529 13th Ave S, Minneapolis)
8. March with the Resource Center on May 1st!
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Please join us for the May 1st March to end deportations and raids, support immigrant's rights, and drivers licenses for all. For more details on the march see #9.
We need art! Come show your artistic side on Thursday April 30th at 6pm at the Resource Center. We will have supplies for making signs and encourage you to bring some supplies to share. We will also meet at 3pm on May 1st in Spirit of the Lakes Parking lot for last minute art.
We will be gathering in the parking lot at Spirit of the Lakes and Marching together to the rally. Bring your friends and family and have your voice heard!
9. May 1st, 2009: March and Street Festival
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Since 1889, We Stand United in Celebration of International Worker's Day!
On May 1, 2009, Come to a March and Community Festival to Commemorate and Celebrate Mayday!
No more raids and deportations!
Legalization for all!
Driver's Licenses for all!
Yes to the Employee Free Choice Act!
For more than five hundred years, the struggle for peace and justice has endured in these lands (the Americas), from the massacres and rebellions of indigenous peoples against the first imperialist immigrants, to the modern struggles against corporate imperialism which have won immense victories. But the fight in the Americas continues!
This May 1st, we invite all the peoples in our community to come commemorate and celebrate the struggle for immigrant workers' rights in our country.
We invite you to share with the rest of our community in the similar diversity and potential of projects and campaigns that will lead a contingent within the march and have an information table and activities at the community festival!
Although as event organizers we have a specific focus on the Latin@ community, we want to create a diverse environment where we can be inspired by and learn from a variety of groups and forces that are working to create a more just, beautiful and dignified community for everyone!
March
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The March begins at 4 pm, preparations begin at 3, at 13th Ave S. and Lake Street in the parking lot of the Spirit of the Lakes Church, and will proceed West on Lake Street up until Nicollet Ave.
Community Festival
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The Festival will start approximately at 5 pm, off of Nicollet on 28th St, behind Kmart, where Nicollet ends and near where the Greenway begins. There will be a stage with performances by music groups and political and community performances.
Tables
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If your organization would like to table at this event, each space for a table costs $50. Organizations will provide their own tables and be responsible for full set-up and clean-up. In special instances, spaces and tables may be provided for organizations that cannot pay for them.
To reserve a space, volunteer in any way, or ask any further questions, please contact MIRAc at 651-389-9174 or by email tcmay1solidarity@gmail.com
10. Resonating Change: Connecting Communities through Fair Trade
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Minnesota Global-Resonating Change: Connecting Communities Through Fair Trade
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Resource Center of the Americas invite you to join us for an important conversation about fair trade, its history of success and its model for a new sustainable economy. Learn firsthand about how fair trade has positively affected the lives of artisans in Peru.
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
2104 Stevens Avenue South, Minneapolis
Speakers:
* Mark Ritchie, IATP Founder, Minnesota Secretary of State
* Lee Wallace, CEO, Peace Coffee
* Yochanan Zakai, Green America
* Carrie Hawthorne, Partners for Just Trade
* Evangelina Pizarro and Ayde Riveros, Peruvian artisans
Please RSVP by May 1 to Anne Walters at awalters@iatp.org or 612-870-3408.
Refreshments will be served.
11. Teatro del Pueblo presents: The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico
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May 1,2,3 at 8:00pm
May 3 at 2:00pm
May 7,8,9 at 8:00pm
May 10 at 2:00pm
Gremlin Theatre
2400 University Avenue West
St Paul, MN 55114
In English with some Spanish
This comedy explores the relationship between Mexico and the United States, as two Mexican American filmmakers try to make a documentary about the exploitation of other cultures. They soon discover that understanding other cultures is not an easy task, and the methods can at times be detrimental to this very idea of connecting with other cultures.
Tickets: $15 General Admission
$12 Students
$12 Seniors (62 and older)
$12 Fringe Button Discount
Buy tickets now: 1-800-838-3006
Info: 651-224-8806 or email info@teatrodelpueblo.org
12. Colombian Presentation by Michele Braley and Nils Dybvig
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Monday, May 4, 7:00 p.m.
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Fellowship Hall,
2730 East 31st Street, Minneapolis.
Michele Braley and Nils Dybvig recently returned from two years living and working in Barrancabermeja, Colombia with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). Their talk focuses on the work of Colombian community organizers resisting violence, the history and politics of the armed conflict in Colombia, the impacts of U.S. foreign policy on Colombia, and changes that can be made in U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regards to the School of the Americas (SOA). Their presentation uses photos and stories from their personal experiences.
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Minneapolis, MN 55406
http://ent.groundspring.org/
612-276-0788
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