[Peace] Sign petition to #BringLaCartaBack

[Brian Dolinar]

Passing along this message from Christina Lucio, who is bringing back La
Carta, a long-time Latino newspaper on campus. Please consider signing the
petition.

BD

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cristina Lucio <cristinalucio93 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:22 PM
Subject: [geo-solidarity] Petition to #BringLaCartaBack
To: geo-solidarity at lists.uigeo.org

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/bring-la-carta-back?source=direct_link&referrer=67bbce5221c38ba1573582384d65925b22f2d875


LA CARTA INFORMATIVA was a student-run publication that originated in
October of 1979 and released its last issue in November of 2007. As
students of UIUC, we feel it is necessary to hold the administration
accountable for censoring and defunding LA CARTA. We see it as our
responsibility to restart the publication and seek the resources necessary
for students to once again produce factual and critical information in
order to generate a climate of sociopolitical consciousness on the UIUC
campus. It is essential that the work put forth by past students who
created LA CARTA be recognized and valued. It is salient that we restore an
outlet that once served to display student work, share experiences of
students of color, and promote academic freedom.


LA CARTA intends to critically address matters within institutional
structures at local, state, and national levels. This medium will
complement the existing student-run publications on campus because rather
than desensitizing issues that affect communities of color, LA CARTA will
magnify issues and voices that are too often undermined and underserved.
Students will have the opportunity to utilize this constructive platform as
a way to exercise our first amendment right. LA CARTA also has the
potential to attract prospective students to our campus. This can also be
an opportunity to create an internship and/or scholarship through La Casa.
Thus, LA CARTA can extend La Casa’s efforts of increasing recruitment and
retention rates.


We recognize there is a privilege that comes along with relaunching this
publication, one that demands commitment to the ideals that it once strived
for. During its last tenure, LA CARTA was devoted to giving voice to the
Latin@ community and valuing the experiences shared by past and present
people of color at the University. As we look to resurrect LA CARTA, we
intend to continue carrying and celebrating this legacy.


​Thank you all for reading this message.


In Solidarity,

Cristina​

-- 
*Cristina Lucio*
*University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign*
*Department of Latina/Latino Studies*
*Department of Anthropology **|* Student Liaison & Outreach Intern

*La Casa Cultural Latina **|* Student Staff Member
*M.E.Ch.A. de UIUC **| *External Co chair

*E: *cristinalucio93 at gmail.com *M: *708 336 9273


*"I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my
voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue -- my
woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the
tradition of silence."*
Gloria E. Anzaldúa






-- 
Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
briandolinar.com
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