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DESCRIPTION:The immigration debate rages on with the death of the DREAM Act, a 
 progressive bill offering a streamlined citizenship path for illegal 
 immigrants who were brought to the US as children.\n\nJuan Felipe Hererra 
 offers a personal and illuminating perspective on this issue in his new 
 book 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007.   
 He launches his "187 Express" at City Lights on Thursday, November 15th, 
 7pm, with music and spoken word.   \n\nHerrera has enlisted a team of 
 "word-callers" to join the festivities --\n\nEmilio Robles Kirkpatrick, 12 
 year old wordsmith - MC\nGinny Lim, SF, Poet\nArlene Biala, Santa Clara, 
 Poet\nMargarita Robles, Fresno, Poet\nFrancis Wong, SF, Jazz musician\nJohn 
 Carlos Perea, SF, bassist\nYolanda Muñoz, San Diego, sculptor\n\nThe 
 "Express" takes Herrera across the border states, and up and down 
 California in a series of event/performances involving guest musicians and 
 artists.\n\nRaised in the fields of California in a family of migrant 
 workers, Herrera has blended art and activism for over 30 years as a 
 pioneer of the Chicano spoken word movement. He has spent the last three 
 and half decades assembling the collection found in 187 Reasons – at 
 rallies, walkouts, under fire and on the run, in cafés, under helicopters 
 and in the midst of thousands of marchers for civil rights and new 
 immigration policies. Some of the work is a result of secret reconnaissance 
 information given to him by travelers in Central America as they documented 
 the atrocities of the military. There are sections devoted to the first 
 Chicano encounters and journeys in the Mayan Indian ground of Chiapas, now 
 recognized globally.  And there are spoofs and sparks and lists of things 
 that speak about migrant Street Poets' experiences. Most provocative is the 
 photo album of Herrera’s family and his journeys documenting close to a 
 hundred years of migrante life.\n\nJuan Felipe Herrera is Professor of 
 Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Author of 23 
 books, he is a community arts leader and a dynamic performer and actor. He 
 is the son of Mexican immigrants and grew up in the migrant fields of 
 California.\n \nYou'll find a photo of him attached, and an audio 
 invitation to the event from Hererra himself 
 here:\nhttp://web.mac.com/juanfherrera/Site/Podcast/Entries/2007/10/25_You_are_invited_Nov._15th!.html\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/31/18457387.php
SUMMARY:187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave. at Broadway, North Beach
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/31/18457387.php
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