The California Border From Alta to Baja

A Reunion Dinner and Philoso-tea Discussion for
“The California Border from Alta to Baja” (Symbsys 16)
Friday, November 14

Dinner (6 pm): Wilbur Dining Hall East, Big Arroyo Table
Join us for a reunion dinner and discussion featuring Enrique Davalos,
professor of Chicano Studies and San Diego City College. Enrique led our tour in tijuana.
Guest meals available if you don’t have a meal plan. Email Todd or show up at 6 pm to claim a guest meal.

After Dinner (7 pm): Arroyo Lounge, map link:
http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=06-400A
(go around to the glass lounge door for entry)
Join Enrique Davalos, prof. of Chicano Studies at San Diego City College, and a Mexico-U.S. border activist, for a Philoso-tea discussion of immigration and globalization.

Tuesday, May 27, 6-7:30 pm. Topic Table: Post-trip Discussion.  A discussion and reflection on all the issues raised by this class, in the Wilbur East Dining Hall.

The main event of this course was held this weekend. Here is a retrospective schedule:
Friday, May 2

• 12:30-1:15 pm Travel from Stanford to San Francisco International Airport
• 2:45 -4:15 pm Fly from SFO to San Diego
• 4:45-8:30 pm Ground transportation from San Diego Airport to our lodging in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California
• 8:30-10 pm Dinner

Saturday, May 3

• Breakfast
• 8:45-10 am Travel from Rosarito to Tijuana
• 10:30 am – 5 pm Tour of Tijuana , with stops at the border crosses, the office of CITTAC: Centro de Informacion para Trabajadoras y Trabajadores, Asociacion Civil (Workers’ Information Center) – including lunch, the Otay Industrial Park, the Ejido Chilpancingo-Rio Alamar neighborhood
• 5 pm – 7:30 pm Tour of the entertainment district of Tijuana and dinner at La Fonda Restaurant
• After dinner: return to Rosarito

Sunday, May 4

•  Morning and lunch: free time
• 1-2 pm Clean up and packing
• 2-6 pm Travel from Rosarito Beach to San Diego
• 9-10:30 pm Fly from San Diego to San Francisco
• 10:45-11:30 pm Return from SFO to Stanford

Ninth pre-trip event:

Thursday, April 24, 7-9:30 pm.  Film: Traffic (2000) – An award-winning drama directed by Steven Soderberg. It explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker, whose lives affect each other even though they do not meet. Based on the story of the “Tijuana Cartel”.

Seventh pre-trip event:

Tuesday, April 22, 6-7:30 pm.  Philoso-tea: The Immigration Debate. An Arroyo-style discussion of the principles underlying immigration, following up on the “Immigration” episode of Philosophy Talk.

 Fifth pre-trip event:

Friday, April 18, 6-7 pm. Film: Maquilapolis (2006) – A documentary film telling the story of how a few Tijuanense women balance life working in maquiladora factories with their struggle for justice in the system that governs their place of work. American filmmakers brought together a few women who took the majority of the footage as a diary of their day to day existence.

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Fourth pre-trip event:

Wednesday, April 16, 6-7 pm.  Topic Table: Effects of Immigration on Children and Adolescents.  An informal discussion at an Arroyo “Topic Table” (dining hall tables configured for group discussion at lunch or dinner), with Cristina Leal of the Education School.

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Third pre-trip event:

Friday, April 11, 5:30-7 pm. Crossing Arizona (2006) – A documentary film showing different sides of the immigration debate on the Arizona border through the eyes of those most affected by it.

• Supplementary film to view online: A Death in the Desert (2004) – A Frontline World documentary about the tragic journey of Matias Garcia, a chili pepper farmer from a small Zapotec Indian village in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, who crossed the border looking for work and died in the Arizona desert.

Second and Eighth pre-trip events:

Thursday, April 10, 7-8:15 pm or Wednesday, April 23, 10:30-11:45 pm. Made in L.A. (2007) – A documentary film about three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles’s garment factories and their struggle for self-empowerment as they wage a three-year battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table.

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First and Sixth pre-trip events:

Friday, April 4, 6:30-7:30 pm or Monday, April. 21, 10-11 pm. The Other War (2007, rough cut) – an independent film about the anti-immigration movement in Los Angeles.

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