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You are cordially invited to attend Centro Hispano’s 15th Annual Banquet.
The Banquet will be held this Friday, October 22. The keynote speaker is UW
Regent Jesus Salas.
We still have some seats available. Please RSVP as soon as possible as
tickets
will not be sold at the door. Tickets are $60.00 each.
For additional information, please contact Centro Hispano at 255-3018.
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Centro Hispano 15th Annual Banquet
"On the forefront of Latino Success"
Friday, October 22nd at the Madison Concourse Hotel at 5:30 pm
Social Hour: 5:30pm
Dinner: 6:00pm
Keynote Speaker: Jesus Salas
9:00pm Dancing and live music by Fuego Latino
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Jesús Salas was appointed to the UW Board of Regents by Governor Jim Doyle
in January of 2003. His appointment to the UW Board of Regents is of great
significance for the Latino and migrant communities in Wisconsin. It means
progress to a sector of our state that has always been relegated to the
lowest of ranks. It brings hope for a community that has traditionally had
little hope.
While a young migrant farm worker in August of 1966, Jesús Salas led a group
of migrant farm laborers from Wautoma, a community west of Oshkosh, for an
80-mile walk to Madison. The march, which demanded a living wage of $1.25
an hour, improvements to housing conditions, lavatory facilities and
accident insurance for migrant workers, marked the beginning of the movement
to organize agricultural workers in the Great Lakes region.
Jesús Salas has always demonstrated his dedication to the advancement of
civil rights, from the founding of Obreros Unidos in the 1960s, to the
struggles for the creation of Chicano Studies at UW-Madison, and the
establishment of the bilingual education program at Milwaukee Area Technical
College. His name is synonymous with excellence in leadership.
Jesús Salas has taught social studies courses at Milwaukee Area Technical
College since 1987. His is a former lecturer at UW-Madison in Chicano
Studies and presently teaches an introductory course in Latino Studies at
UW-Milwaukee. A native of Texas and former migrant worker, Salas has served
as coordinator and board member of the United Migrant Opportunity Services
(UMOS), an employment and training program that assists Wisconsin’s migrant
workers. Salas is a graduate of UW-Milwaukee’s School of Education, and
received his master’s in political science from UW-Madison.
Most recently, he introduced a resolution that states that the regents would
support changes in state law to allow students to get in-state tuition
rates. His resolution was adopted on a voice vote and received strong
support.
His appointment to the UW System Board of Regents is in some ways
recognition of his lifetime achievements, and brings to light a profile in
courage of humankind’s ongoing quest for reasonableness and dignity, one
that for him started during the struggles in the fields.
Wrtten by Alfonso Zepeda CApistran
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