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909.387.8304 EEO-ADA of color. And my response was, ‘I’m not a feminist. I am a revolutionary Black woman.’”

Davis said she had initially associated feminism with middle-class women and white women.

“But what I want to say to you this afternoon is that working class women, women of color from many different ethnic and national backgrounds have helped to shape feminism,” she said.

The term most linked to feminism, she said, is intersectionality.

“(That term) came largely from women of color, radical women of color and also working-class white women who wanted to think about feminism as connected to the transformation of our social, economic and political worlds,” she said. “So, when I say I want to think broadly, I want to be very inclusive, but at the same time, I want to insist that the feminism that is most valuable is the feminism that is anti-racist. And the feminism that is anti-capitalist. And the feminism that is internationalist.”

“I tend not to want to pull one issue out and just say, ‘This is the most important,’” she clarified. “Because I think feminism methodolog ies urge us to grasp, to apprehend relationships, relationalities. That’s what intersectionality is about. It’s about recognizing that one cannot fully understand what gender means without taking race into consideration. One can’t understand race without taking gender into consideration.”

Davis said that if she was compelled to choose one issue, it would be the environment, noting the need to rescue the earth from “the onslaught of the billionaire capitalists who see profit as more important than saving the plants and saving the animals,” which includes humans.

“If we can’t save the earth, then none of the work we are doing around justice for workers, justice for women, and gender nonconforming people, justice for trans people, none of that will matter,” she said. “So, let’s keep that in mind. I always like to talk about the environmental movement and environmental justice as ground zero of social justice. If we can’t achieve that, then none of our progress in other areas will ultimately be significant.”

Davis said her motivation stems from her family, including her mother and her mother’s best friend, and the many people she has connected with over the years.

“I know a lot of people who have devoted their entire lives to struggles to make life more livable for all of us,” she said. “So, I guess am motivated by that. And the fact is I don’t know how to be any different. I wouldn’t know how to live if I weren’t also attempting to help make the planet a better place.”

Students, faculty and members from the community, including Ben Reynoso, councilmember for the city of San Bernardino, participated in the question-and-answer session, which introduced a wide variety of topics of discussion, including afro-pessimism, voting and the Palestinian struggle.

Following the discussion, a book signing with Davis was held in the SMSU South Fourplex.

This was Davis’ second visit to CSUSB. She last spoke on campus in February 2010 at an event hosted by the Women’s Resource Center, which was attended by more than 700 students and guests.

Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. .

Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College and UC Berkeley. She also has taught at UCLA, Vassar, Syracuse University, the Claremont Colleges and Stanford University. Most recently she spent 15 years at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness – an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program – and of Feminist Studies.

Davis is the author of 10 books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and South America. In recent years, a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination.

She draws upon her own experiences in the early ’70s as a person who spent 18 months in jail and on trial (she was acquitted by a jury), after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List.” She also has conducted extensive research on numerous issues related to race, gender and imprisonment.

Over 181,000 College Students May be Going Hungry in the Inland Empire

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The international flags around the room on the Crafton Hills College campus made it look like a United Nations summit. But a two-hour roundtable discussion on Friday organized by the San Bernardino Community College District and the California Student Aid Commission resulted in commitments of cooperation on getting better access to food for hungry students.

Chancellor Diana Z. Rodriguez of the San Bernardino Community College District spoke passionately about the issue, saying, “I never thought that student hunger would rank so high on my list of educational priorities. But it does. Students don’t learn when they are hungry.”

Those around the table included:

Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gomez Reyes San Bernardino County Supervisor Joe Baca, Jr.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office Assemblymember Corey Jackson’s office San Bernardino County Supervisor Jesse Armendarez’s office Riverside County Supervisor Karen Spiegel’s office Roundtable co-hosts included: Cal State University San Bernardino Community Action Partnership of Riverside County Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County Riverside Community College

District

University of California, Riverside

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla sent a video message to the group, in which he stated, “We can’t let students sacrifice their health to afford a higher education.”

In his opening remarks, RCCD Chancellor Wolde-Ab Isaac noted, “The U.S. is the wealthiest nation in the world. California has the fourth largest economy. But, a disproportionate number of college students in the Inland Empire lack the basic necessities.” He observed, “We need to expand access to CalFresh and eliminate hunger as a barrier to higher education. Over the long term, we must wage war against poverty and inequity.”

They all agreed that mapped boundaries and privacy laws become hurdles for hungry students, as each program requires a new application. Even when students successfully jump the bureaucratic hurdles, the benefits come on EBT cards, and only 10 percent of college cafeterias accept them.

“We need to increase student access to CalFresh on and off campus,” said SBCCD Chancellor Rodriguez, referring to a program that helps low-income people in California buy healthy food. It is also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) at the federal level.

Marlene Garcia, executive director of the California Student Aid Commission, called it a historic meeting. She said it is rare to have so many public agencies making time to be in the same room to talk about finding solutions to student hunger. It is a big problem in the Inland region, where over 181,000 college students may be going hungry without CalFresh assistance. Statewide, nearly 750,000 are eligible for CalFresh, but only 1 in 6 receive help.

“College students have historically been left out of food support because people assume that they are only temporarily poor,” Garcia said. But students fill out the federal financial aid paperwork and it contains so much information.

One policy change that might help is to make that one application apply to more programs. “Let the FAFSA pre-populate applications for other public as- sistance programs,” said Catalina Cifuentes, an executive director at the Riverside County Office of Education who also serves as California Student Aid Commission chair and commissioner.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government made applications for food aid easier. As the pandemic emergency orders expire next month, those benefits will become more limited.

There is a June 9 deadline for students to reapply for food aid, and they could get up to one more year of benefits, according to Allison Gonzales, an assistant director at the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services.

San Bernardino Supervisor Joe Baca, Jr. said his office could help make more information available to colleges about who has applied to county programs, to try to streamline other applications.

According to Angel Rodriguez, an associate vice chancellor at San Bernardino Community College District and California Student Aid commissioner, Baca Jr.’s pledge to share county data may catalyze a chain of collaboration within the group.

“It is mind-boggling that we have not been able to put this together,” said Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gomez Reyes. “We are leaving half a billion federal dollars on the table. We are going to team up to bring that money back to our students.” Reyes is proposing two bills this year, AB 1514 and AB 928, which the California Student Aid Commission considers vital in improving access to food aid for students.With the commitment and collaboration of the group, the issue of college student hunger in the Inland Empire may finally receive the attention and action it deserves.

Commemorates the Battle of Puebla which was fought on May 5, 1862. A small contingent of Mexican soldiers, outnumbered 3 to 1, defeated an elite French army. French forces had not been defeated for almost 50 years. While the French would go on to win the war, it kept the full force of the French army from going to the aid of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. Ultimately, the French occupation of Mexico would end in 1867.