OAKLAND– Community Dialogue: Journeys on the Beast and through the Desert: Oakland Day Laborers Tell their Stories

OAKLAND– Join us for a Community Dialogue

Journey on the Beast and through the Desert: Oakland Day Laborers Tell their Stories of their Homelands and Identities

Many Fruitvale residents working as day laborers risked their lives to get from Central America to the US border on La Bestia– The Beast– also known as the Train of Death, riding on the top of a train for thousands of miles.

Saturday March 31, 2018 (Cesar Chavez Day)

5-7pm

Center for History and Community

Peralta Hacienda Historical Park

2488 Coolidge Avenue

Oakland, CA

Co-moderated by Gabriela Galicia, Executive Director of Street Level Health Collective and UC Berkeley historian Alex Saragoza.

For more information: call 510-532-9142 or visit www.peraltahacienda.org

Sponsored by : The Akonadi Foundation, California Humanities and the City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program.