We are delighted to announce one of our main speakers for our 48th Chicano Moratorium Commemoration

We are delighted to announce one of our main speakers for our 48th Chicano Moratorium Commemoration | Boyle Heights is the amazing Gloria Arellanes!In 1967, Arellanes joined the Brown Berets. Serving as the Minister of Finance and Correspondence of the Brown Berets’s founding chapter in Los Angeles, she was the only woman to hold a major leadership position. The Berets worked to achieve better education for Chicano youth, end police brutality against young Chicanos, and to promote cultural pride. They also worked on building community programs, the first of which was the Barrio Free Clinic, which Arellanes was given the responsibility of coordinating. In 1969, she was made the official clinic director. Arellanes would later help create the Adelitas de Aztlán - an all women organization - in 1970.Following her time with the Berets, Arellanes has reconnected with Native heritage and is now an elder of the Tongva tribe. She served as a secretary on the Tribal Council and is part of an Indigenous Grandmothers group, and we are so excited to have her speak at our event!Please donate to help make this event a success here:http://GoFundMe.com/HelpCentroCSO -- source link

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