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LA RAZA UNIDA PICKS STEERING COMMITTEE La Raza Unida, a newly formed coalition which represents the active Chicano leadership of the Quad-Cities area, met on Sunday, December 6 at the LULAC Club to select a steering committee. The steering committee was given the task of contacting Chicano communities of some twenty or more cities in Iowa and western Illinois to send representation to a general meeting to plan for a Regional Issues Conference. The Regional Issues Conference will be held when adequate representation from the region is assured at the conference. The members of La Raza Unida also heard Leo Rivers, Cordinator of the MIdwest Council of la Raza, explain the development of la Raza Unida in Michigan and Ohio and some of their successes in those states. On Friday, December 11, the steering committee of la Raza Unida set at the Area Migrant Office at 418 Main Street in Davenport, Iowa to detail plans for contacting the Chicano community leadership throughout Iowa and western Illinois. Sergio Casillas of Moline, Illinois was chosen temporary chairman of the committee to coordinate its efforts. Joe Juarez, a community organizer working in Muscatine, Iowa explained in some detail the structure of La Raza Unida in Michigan, his home state. He also told how a state Issues Conference in Michigan was organized and financed. Mr. Juarez volunteered reponsibility for raising funds for the Issues Conference planned for the Iowa-Illinois la Raza Unida, which will cost in excess of a thousand dollars. The steering committee members divided the cities to be contacted among them. They are to establish contact with the Raza leadership in these cities and explain what la Raza Unida is and what it can accomplish in the way of social change to benefit the Raza. THe meeting adjourned on a note of enthusiasm for the work ahead. BI-LINGUAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE. The Iowa State Advisory Committee (Iowa SAC) to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission will sponsor a Bi-lingual Education Leadership Conference on January 9, 1971 in Des Moines, Iowa. The program will introduce the concept of bi-lingual bi-cultural education and discuss its importance for minority groups in Iowa. Topics for discussion will include a description of the Bi-lingual Education Act (Title VLL) and a review of the various education progress for the disadvantaged funded by Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Participants will be provided with the information necessary to apply for Federal funding for these programs in their local communities. A number of people from the Chicano Communities of Davenport and Muscatine have been invited to participate in the one day conference. Among them are Ernest Rodriguez of the Area Migrant Board, Henry Vargas along... $624,00 ASKED BY MIDWEST COUNCIL OF LA RAZA THe Midwest Council of La Raza composed of representatives from eight states has prepared a proposal to be submitted to the United States Catholic COnference Urban Task Force. THe proposal, which seeks funding in the amount of $624,000 from the Urban Task Force, has as its goals to identify where migrants and ex-migrants, Puerto Ricans, and other Spanish/Latina minorities live in the 10 state area; to develop effective ways of bringing progress and services to the people, and the people to the existing progress; to institutionalize the voice of all Spanish-American and to develop self-determination. If funded the Midwest Council will employ ten community organizers with an administrative and clerical staff. To accomplish the foregoing goals the council will develop cooperation and involvement with all concerned federal and state programs and all levels of government. It will also disseminate information and data to the people and to (in the broadest sense) government. At present, the Midwest Council of la Raza has only an office of an Executive Director which operates out of the Urban Studies Department of the University of Notre Dame. Executive Director Leo Rivera was elected last April 19 to seek funding for the Midwest Council of la Raza by some 200 delegates from eight states of the Midwest. At that time, three delegates from each of the eight states were elected to serve on the Board of Directors of la Raza Unida to draw up buy-laws and make policy decisions. Iowa's three delegates to the Midwest Council of la Raza are Ernest Rodriguez and Roberto Jinines, Jr. of Davenport, Iowa and Sister Irene Minos of Muscatine, Iowa. Rodriguez also sits on the Executive Board of the Council.
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LA RAZA UNIDA PICKS STEERING COMMITTEE La Raza Unida, a newly formed coalition which represents the active Chicano leadership of the Quad-Cities area, met on Sunday, December 6 at the LULAC Club to select a steering committee. The steering committee was given the task of contacting Chicano communities of some twenty or more cities in Iowa and western Illinois to send representation to a general meeting to plan for a Regional Issues Conference. The Regional Issues Conference will be held when adequate representation from the region is assured at the conference. The members of La Raza Unida also heard Leo Rivers, Cordinator of the MIdwest Council of la Raza, explain the development of la Raza Unida in Michigan and Ohio and some of their successes in those states. On Friday, December 11, the steering committee of la Raza Unida set at the Area Migrant Office at 418 Main Street in Davenport, Iowa to detail plans for contacting the Chicano community leadership throughout Iowa and western Illinois. Sergio Casillas of Moline, Illinois was chosen temporary chairman of the committee to coordinate its efforts. Joe Juarez, a community organizer working in Muscatine, Iowa explained in some detail the structure of La Raza Unida in Michigan, his home state. He also told how a state Issues Conference in Michigan was organized and financed. Mr. Juarez volunteered reponsibility for raising funds for the Issues Conference planned for the Iowa-Illinois la Raza Unida, which will cost in excess of a thousand dollars. The steering committee members divided the cities to be contacted among them. They are to establish contact with the Raza leadership in these cities and explain what la Raza Unida is and what it can accomplish in the way of social change to benefit the Raza. THe meeting adjourned on a note of enthusiasm for the work ahead. BI-LINGUAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE. The Iowa State Advisory Committee (Iowa SAC) to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission will sponsor a Bi-lingual Education Leadership Conference on January 9, 1971 in Des Moines, Iowa. The program will introduce the concept of bi-lingual bi-cultural education and discuss its importance for minority groups in Iowa. Topics for discussion will include a description of the Bi-lingual Education Act (Title VLL) and a review of the various education progress for the disadvantaged funded by Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Participants will be provided with the information necessary to apply for Federal funding for these programs in their local communities. A number of people from the Chicano Communities of Davenport and Muscatine have been invited to participate in the one day conference. Among them are Ernest Rodriguez of the Area Migrant Board, Henry Vargas along... $624,00 ASKED BY MIDWEST COUNCIL OF LA RAZA THe Midwest Council of La Raza composed of representatives from eight states has prepared a proposal to be submitted to the United States Catholic COnference Urban Task Force. THe proposal, which seeks funding in the amount of $624,000 from the Urban Task Force, has as its goals to identify where migrants and ex-migrants, Puerto Ricans, and other Spanish/Latina minorities live in the 10 state area; to develop effective ways of bringing progress and services to the people, and the people to the existing progress; to institutionalize the voice of all Spanish-American and to develop self-determination. If funded the Midwest Council will employ ten community organizers with an administrative and clerical staff. To accomplish the foregoing goals the council will develop cooperation and involvement with all concerned federal and state programs and all levels of government. It will also disseminate information and data to the people and to (in the broadest sense) government. At present, the Midwest Council of la Raza has only an office of an Executive Director which operates out of the Urban Studies Department of the University of Notre Dame. Executive Director Leo Rivera was elected last April 19 to seek funding for the Midwest Council of la Raza by some 200 delegates from eight states of the Midwest. At that time, three delegates from each of the eight states were elected to serve on the Board of Directors of la Raza Unida to draw up buy-laws and make policy decisions. Iowa's three delegates to the Midwest Council of la Raza are Ernest Rodriguez and Roberto Jinines, Jr. of Davenport, Iowa and Sister Irene Minos of Muscatine, Iowa. Rodriguez also sits on the Executive Board of the Council.
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