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Institute: Public transport to CSULA from LAX/Burbank

Public Transportation from LAX or Burbank Airports to Cal State LA

There are multiple ways to go from the LAX and Burbank airports to CSULA. These are some of them:

From the LAX Airport– Follow the signs to Ground Transportation. Once outside, look for the green signs indicating Flyaway. The Flyaway shuttle buses are blue and they run every 20-30 minutes. Make sure you will board the Flyaway bus to Union Station. The fare is $7.00 and it takes between 30-50 minutes to Union Station (downtown), depending on traffic. Based on the time of your arrival to Union Station, select an option to get to CSULA. These options can take from 12 to 25 minutes and are:

  1. the Metrolink San Bernardino from Union Station to CSULA, costs $5.25 and takes 10 min;
  2. the Silver Line to CSULA costs $1.50 and takes 12 min (board at Busway E); or
  3. the bus 481, or 70 costs $1.50 and takes 20-25 min.

From the Burbank (Bob Hope) Airport—Walk to the Metrolink (Amtrak) Burbank Station and board either the Metrolink or the Amtrak. These are the options:

  1. Take the Metrolink directly to CSULA. You will need to transfer in Union Station from the Airport/Venture line to the San Bernardino line. It costs $6.25 directly to CSULA, it would take you about 40-45min (check schedules to find out if your waiting at Union Station is reasonable);
  2. Take the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner (Amtrak) to Union Station, which costs $8.00, and would take about 25-40 min. Once at Union Station you will have several options to arrive to CSULA, which can take you from 12 to 30 minutes
    • take the San Bernardino Metrolink to CSULA, takes 10 minutes and costs $5.25;
    • OR take the Silver Line to CSULA, costs $1.50 and takes 12 min. (board at Busway E);
    • OR take the bus 699, 481, or 70 to CSULA, costs $1.50, and takes 20-25 min.
  3. Take the Metrolink to Union Station which costs $6.00 and then:
    • take the Silver Line to CSULA, costs $1.50 and takes 12 min. (board at Busway E);
    • OR take the bus 481, or 70 costs $1.50 and takes 20-25 min.

To select the faster way, depending on your schedule, the schedule of trains and buses, and the distance to walk to each means, go to www.metro.net and use the Metro Trip Planner, or the Goggle Transit in the main page of the Metro Trip Planner, or go directly to Google Maps, Directions.

Useful links:

      1. LAX Ground Transportation: https://www.lawa.org/welcome_LAX.aspx?id=292
      2. Flyaway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlyAway_Bus#Union_Station
      3. Flyaway Union Station: https://www.lawa.org/popup.aspx?id=304
      4. Metrolink:https://www.metrolinktrains.com/
      5. Amtrak: https://www.amtrak.com
      6. Buses: www.metro.net
      7. or call (323) GO-METRO or (511)

Enjoy your trip by public transportation to CSULA. Download this info as a Word document.

–From Tere V.

News from the Exec: ReVisioning MALCS

Our Mission

MALCS is an organization that supports Chicanas, Latinas, Native American and Indigenous women in higher education and community leadership.

Our Vision

MALCS is an organization that initiates dialogue amongst our members and creates exchanges with other social activist organizations drawing on our histories as well as emerging cultural thought and practice in order to address new global challenges.

Getting to Our Mission and Vision: Confronting Challenges to Mujeres

To evaluate where MALCS is, as an organization, we reflected on its role in social action, the purpose of our work and how it is linked to the movement for the transformation of our society. [Read more…] about News from the Exec: ReVisioning MALCS

Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists

Please help distribute widely to your communities.
All the best,
Anna Guevarra
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies and Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Between June 14 and June 23, 2011, a delegation of 11 scholars, activists, and artists visited occupied Palestine. As indigenous and women of color feminists involved in multiple social justice struggles, we sought to affirm our association with the growing international movement for a free Palestine. We wanted to see for ourselves the conditions under which Palestinian people live and struggle against what we can now confidently name as the Israeli project of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Each and every one of us—including those members of our delegation who grew up in the Jim Crow South, in apartheid South Africa, and on Indian reservations in the U.S.—was shocked by what we saw. In this statement we describe some of our experiences and issue an urgent call to others who share our commitment to racial justice, equality, and freedom.

During our short stay in Palestine, we met with academics, students, youth, leaders of civic organizations, elected officials, trade unionists, political leaders, artists, and civil society activists, as well as residents of refugee camps and villages that have been recently attacked by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Everyone we encountered—in Nablus, Awarta, Balata, Jerusalem, Hebron, Dheisheh, Bethlehem, Birzeit, Ramallah, Um el-Fahem, and Haifa—asked us to tell the truth about life under occupation and about their unwavering commitment to a free Palestine. We were deeply impressed by people’s insistence on the linkages between the movement for a free Palestine and struggles for justice throughout the world; as Martin Luther King, Jr. insisted throughout his life, “Justice is indivisible. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” [Read more…] about Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists

D.C.: American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Pop Music

Just wanted to let you know that  American Sabor:  Latinos in U.S. Pop Music exhibit at the Smithsonian will be opening next week.  East Los Chicana  feminist punk represents!

If you are near D.C. we hope you get to see the exhibit –it will be up through Oct.

Click below for more info.

https://www.washington.edu/news/articles/uw-curated-2018american-sabor2019-music-exhibit-heads-to-the-smithsonian

https://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/American-Sabor-Latinos-in-US-Popular-Music-4516

Submitted by Michelle Habell-Pallan

MALCS Special Gathering: A Report Back

We’ve just posted to the main website the second installment of “News From the Exec” (under Leadership).   The first few paragraphs are below, or click on the title to read the full report:

A MALCS Special Gathering: A Report from the Executive Committee”

Introduction and Overview

In the April of 2010, Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed SB1070, one of the strictest anti-immigration measures in recent history, into law. Shortly after that, political leaders called for a boycott of the state. MALCS, like many other academic organizations, decided to boycott and not hold our summer institute originally scheduled for Arizona State University in July of 2010. The circumstances surrounding our decision to boycott raised questions about MALCS’s organizational structures and processes. It became clear that as an organization it was time for us to revisit our mission as well as our communication and decision-making processes. The Executive Committee called for a national meeting, a “Special Gathering” that would give us an opportunity to discuss these and other issues critical to the future of MALCS. The Special Gathering, a one-day meeting held November 7, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas, was attended by mujeres from across the country.

What follows is a three-part report from the Executive Committee outlining the events that led to the Special Gathering, articulating key points made during the gathering, and providing an assessment and articulation of the next steps MALCS should take in order to ensure its success in the 21st century.

 

Please click to read the complete report. 

News from the Executive Committee

Dear MALCistas,

In the coming weeks before our 2011 Institute, our website will feature a new section “News from the Exec”

The MALCS Special Gathering launched an assessment of our organization that would address how we, as a national body, bridge all aspects of our work. The Special Gathering called for exploring new and existing strategies of bridging letras y cambio social.

Since 2010, the Executive Committee has addressed bylaws, 501c3 status, building membership, and addressing critical infrastructural issues before us as a national organization. And other issues still are before us.

This section begins a series of discussions about MALCS and what we want it to become. It will feature various essays, hopefully short essays, to facilitate ideas for an assessment of our organization. The tracts will take up the following:

  • Report back on Special Gathering
  • Vision Statement
  • Proposed Bylaws Changes, Summary of the changes and the procedure for Bylaws voting/ timeline
  • Proposal for changing the meeting structure to every other year
  • Update on MALCS as a financial entity with a fiscal agent, the Chicana/Latina Foundation

Key to our assessment is guaranteeing the membership’s input—recommendations to the Report Back and Vision Statement, discussion of the Bylaws revisions, etc. Therefore, the “News from the Exec” link will provide a viable avenue for discussion—this includes a blog space for-members-only, as well as utilizing survey forms so that members may respond more promptly and efficiently.

At this launching, the Executive Committee extends our gratitude to The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (SSGA) that graciously provided their final plenary session to MALCS in order to begin our assessment.

Siempre,
Keta Miranda, Chair

MALCS Summer Housing deadline is July 12

Dear Conference Presenters and Attendees,

This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for reserving on campus housing, or for reserving hotel rooms at either the Courtyard Marriott or the San Gabriel Hilton, is July 12.  After this time it may be very difficult to reserve housing in any of these three sites. I encourage you to send in your housing reservation and payment at your earliest convenience.

More information about On Campus Housing
Please note that 27/per person is the double room rate for housing and 37/per person is the single room rate.  The more information you can provide about your housing preferences (e.g. roommates, other students/faculty, etc) the better. At the same time, it is always good to meet new people, so hopefully we can be open to that.

Each apartment in the campus housing has from two to four rooms. Each person will get two keys. One key is for the apartment and the other key is for the room within the apartment.  There are refrigerators and microwaves in each apartment.

Housing is located at the bottom of a hill so be prepared to walk up and down a hill in the morning and the evening. I will also look into campus shuttle service (one small van, usually for commuters) for those who may feel uncomfortable walking up and down. If you are in this group, please let me know so I can get a sense of the needs.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us. Adelante con MALCS Summer Institute 2011
–MALCS 2011 Site Committee