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"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more when it is in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more in context."

— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project

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

March 31, 2018 @ 10:00 am12:00 pm

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.    

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Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
2488 Coolidge Avenue
Oakland, CA 94601 United States
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