[RAICES] ELIZABETH "BETITA" MARTINEZ

[Manuel Castro]

Next Steps for the Anti-War Movement:
Building Multiracial Justice at Home and Abroad"

A Lecture and Discussion by
ELIZABETH "BETITA" MARTINEZ

Monday, May 5th, 7:00 PM
Thompson 102, UMass-Amherst
Free and Open to the Public

A Chicana activist, author, and educator, Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez has
published six books and many articles on social justice movements in the
Americas.  Best known is her bilingual volume, *500 Years of Chicano
History in Pictures*.  Her latest book is *De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views
for a Multi-Colored Century*.  During the 1960s, Martinez served fulltime in the
Black Civil Rights Movement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) in the South and as the New York office coordinator.  In 1968, she
joined the Chicano movement in New Mexico, where she edited the movement
newspaper, *El Grito del Norte* and co-founded the Chicano Communications
Center, a barrio-based organization.  Since moving to the San Francisco
Bay Area in 1976, she has organized on Latino/a community issues, taught
Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies in the California State University system, and
conducted anti-racist training workshops.  She ran for Governor of
California on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket in 1982.  In 1997, she co-founded
and currently directs the Institute for MultiRacial Justice in San Francisco.
She is also an editor of the national bilingual newspaper, *War Times*.

This event was organized by Solidarity (a socialist-feminist-antiracist
organization) and UMass's Office of ALANA Affairs and co-sponsored by
UMass's Women's Studies Department, the Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino
Studies Program, and the UMass Anti-War Coalition.

For more information, call 577-0241 or 545-2149
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