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DESCRIPTION:The Resource Center for Nonviolence presents another in our 
 series,\n\nConversations in Nonviolence:\n \nCruz Gomez, a Latina Voice for 
 Radical, Peaceful, Activism\n \nSaturday, August 23 from 3:00 to 5:00 
 p.m.\nupstairs at the Resource Center for Nonviolence\n515 Broadway, Santa 
 Cruz\n \nCruz is on a brief return visit to Santa Cruz County. It's a 
 chance to be inspired and to rededicate ourselves to the struggle for 
 justice for all.\n \nCruz Gomez is a community organizer, social service 
 provider, writer, and activist who worked in Watsonville during the late 
 1970's through the early 1990's. She worked with injured workers, cannery 
 workers, farm workers, and those with little resources to navigate and 
 challenge public institutions to respond to their needs. During the 1989 
 earthquake Cruz worked tirelessly to help Watsonville residents who lost 
 their homes, jobs or were in need of other help.\n \nAnother focus of 
 Cruz's work was fighting "the Migra." Cruz helped local residents to 
 organize as the "Adelante Immigration Group" who pressured then Congressman 
 Leon Panetta to form an INS Task Force. Eventually, pressure by Congressman 
 Panetta on the INS reduced their sweeps. It also led to the passage of 
 "non-cooperation ordinances" in 1989 and 1990 by the cities of Watsonville 
 and Santa Cruz and continued immigrant rights activities. Cruz helped to 
 establish the Santa Cruz County Immigration Project which continued 
 immigrant rights work as well as immigration legal services.\n \nContact: 
 Barbara Hayes  (831) 423-1626 X105 or barbara@greybird.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/19/18527916.php
SUMMARY:Cruz Gomez: a Latina Voice for Radical, Peaceful Activism
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence\n515 Broadway\nSanta Cruz, 
 California\n\nCruz Gomez is a community organizer, social service provider, 
 writer and activist who has helped farm and cannery workers, injured 
 workers, immigrants and so many others. To hear her is to be reinspired in 
 the struggle for justice for all.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/19/18527916.php
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