Actor, director, comedian and author

Cheech Marin is LEAD XI honorary

chair/padrino de honor
https://inside.csusb.edu/node/29516

Mon, January 13, 2020

Richard Anthony Marin, better known as Cheech Marin, will be the honorary chair/padrino
de honor for the 2020 Latino Education & Advocacy Days LEAD Summit XI, set for March 26 at Cal State
San Bernardino.

Each year the summit, which is open to the public and free to attend, brings together
teaching professionals and educators, researchers, academics, scholars, administrators,
independent writers and artists, policy and program specialists, students, parents, civic
leaders, activists and advocates – all sharing a common interest and commitment to
education issues that impact Latinos to help them define the future.

The theme for the 11th annual summit is “Movimiento y Compromiso: 50 Years of
Challenges, Possibilities, and the Quest for Educational Equity.” The summit programs will
revisit and commemorate social movements from the last 50 years, including the birth of
Chicano-ethnic studies, the school walkouts/blowouts, bilingual education and the Chicano
Moratorium.

“Our audience/membership will be a perfect fit with all the efforts with the Cheech Marin
Center for Chicano Art, Culture and Industry of the Riverside Art Museum, and this
opportunity would serve to share the tremendous economic impact the Cheech Marin
Center will have on the Inland Empire and how the museum in our region will elevate us in
the art world,” said Enrique Murillo Jr., LEAD executive director and CSUSB professor of
education. “Cheech Marin will share how the renovation project is progressing, what types
of programs we can expect to see at the ‘Cheech’ and how we can be part of the incredible
effort.”

Marin is probably best known as half of the comedic “irreverent, satirical, counter-culture no-
holds-barred duo of Cheech and Chong,” as his website states. But he also is an actor,
director, writer, musician, art collector and humanitarian.

Born in South Central Los Angeles, Marin met Tommy Chong in Vancouver, British
Columbia. Once they moved back to Los Angeles, the duo rocketed into fame, with six of
their albums going gold, four of them nominated for Grammys, with the album “Los
Cochinos” awarded the 1973 Grammy for Best Comedy Recording. They also appeared in
eight feature films.

Marin appeared his own work, written and directed by him, “Born in East L.A.” in 1987. He
also appeared on TV, including the crime drama “Nash Bridges” with Don Johnson from
1996-2001, as well as the voice of several animated film characters, including Ramone in
“Cars” and Banzai in “The Lion King.”

Off screen, Marin is known as a strong advocate for Chicano art, and began developing his
collection in the mid-1980s, according to his website bio. “Much of it formed the core of his
inaugural exhibition Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, which broke
attendance records during its groundbreaking 15‐city tour during 2001‐2007 to major art
museums across the United States,” the website says. “He states, ‘Chicano art is American
art. My goal is to bring the term “Chicano” to the forefront of the art world.’”

The portions of his collection have toured more than 50 major art museums in the United
States and Europe. In the Inland Empire, Marin has entered into “a partnership with the city
of Riverside and the Riverside Art Museum to create the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano
Art, Culture and Industry (aka ‘The Cheech’),” Marin’s website says. “Slated to open in
2021, The Cheech will become the permanent home for his more than 700 works of
Chicano art, including paintings, sculptures, and photography; collectively, the most
renowned Chicano art collection in the United States.”

Registration for LEAD XI, which is free, may be done online at the LEAD Summit XI
website at leadsummit.csusb.edu. LEAD Summit XI will take place from 8 a.m. to about 4
p.m. at the university’s Santos Manuel Student Union.

Event Website: leadsummit.csusb.edu

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*LEAD 2020 is a 10-day-long assembly that brings needed attention to the

crisis in Chicano/Latino Education
and serves to strengthen future educational outcomes. The highlight is the
LEAD Summit.

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You are cordially invited to attend LEAD Summit 2020 - ¡Movimiento y

Compromiso! - Thursday, March 26th
No Cost to Register and Attend!
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Coordinator dianaq@csusb.edu 909-537-7641

*Town Hall Viewing Events need not register, as this is for on-site attendance
only.
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and contact us if your institution does not appear, or you wish to pledge your institution to watch
via webcast

Theme - Movimiento y Compromiso:

"50 Years of Challenges, Accomplishments, and the Continuing
Quest for Educational Equity"
Program at a Glance
The last several years, through the next, there are a number of 50-year
commemorations of the foundational events that helped launch the historic civil and
human rights struggles and movements of the 1960s and 1970s, included among
them the Chicano Movement.

There were many legal actions and legislation, strikes (huelgas), civil rights protests,
insurrections (levantamientos), mass rallies, and marches (marchas) on both sides
of the U.S./Mexico border, too many to list here. Among the most notable could
include the Los Angeles Walkouts as well as the numerous Blowouts throughout
other parts of the U.S.; the Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico City; El Plan Espiritual
de Aztlan; El Plan de Santa Barbara and the creation of Chicano/a Studies; the
Bilingual Education Act (BEA) of Title VII; and the initiation of student and young
movement activist groups such as the Mexican American Youth Organization and
the United Mexican American Students (later merged as MEChA), the Brown
Berets, and La Raza Unida Party. There was also the Chicano Moratorium against
the Vietnam War; the founding of the Chicano Press Association, Católicos por La
Raza, and the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional; notable victories among the
National Farm Workers Association (later UFW). There was La Alianza Federal de
Mercedes; organizations such as the Southwest Council of La Raza (later National
Council of La Raza and now UnidosUS) and the Mexican American Legal Defense
and Education Fund (MALDEF); the strengthening of pre-movement organizations
like MAPA, LULAC and the GI Forum.

The list goes on and on . . . and although contemporaneous, many not unified in
ideology or action. Albeit the struggle for social justice and educational rights did
not initiate in the 1960s, but in which ways was the Chicano Movement different
from the responses and creative actions from previous generations? What were the
primary processes, challenges, the social and political conditions and forces, the
cultural eruptions, ideologies, conversations, and accomplishments?

Further, while it is tempting to stroll down memory lane and mire in the nostalgic
and radical past of militancy and “war stories”, the thematic strands of LEAD 2020
hope to move past the unvaryingly nostalgia, and look toward the next 50 years.
Although the anniversaries of these historic events should be remembered and
commemorated, and while they are of great educational value, what holds most true
today is that the issues the Chicano movement challenged have yet to be resolved;
such as education, labor, civil, human and immigration rights abuses.

Stated simply, how can succeeding generations, many who feel disconnected from
these long-ago events grab the baton and continue the struggle?
Join Us
California State University, San Bernardino is pleased to announce the Annual Latino Education
and Advocacy Days (LEAD).

• Are you ready to make a difference in the Latino community?

• Are you ready to connect with and be part of Latino educational leadership?
• Are you ready to find cross-sector solutions to improve the education and lives of all
students?
• Raise Your Hand, Step In, and Get Involved!!!
• Latino Education is the economic imperative of our time, and the civil rights issue of our
generation.
• Latino students disproportionately bear the crux of the educational crisis, and is where the
greatest improvements and most fundamental changes must be fared.
Please join us for a 10-day long assembly, as we convene key stakeholders: teaching professionals
and educators, researchers, academics, scholars, administrators, independent writers and artists,
policy and program specialists, students, parents, families, civic leaders, activists, and advocates.
In short, those sharing a common interest and commitment to educational issues that impact
Latinos.

Conference Location: Santos Manuel Student Union Event Center (unless otherwise noted).
(Complimentary Parking Lot D Only)
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Latino Education & Advocacy Days 2020 - Calendar

• Wednesday, March 18: Feria Educativa XVI / Puente 9th-Grade Student Leadership
Conference - SMSU Events Center, morning & afternoon
• Friday, March 20: ALFSS Winter Social Convivencia, Association of Latino Faculty,
Staff, and Students - SMSU Events Center, afternoon & evening
• Saturday, March 21: Binational Parent Leadership Institute II - SMSU Events Center,
morning & afternoon
• Monday, March 23: Catholic School Expo and Career Day IV - SMSU Events Center,
morning & afternoon
• Tuesday, March 24: IE Ethnic Studies III - SMSU Events Center, morning & afternoon
• Wednesday, March 25: Puente Community College Student Leadership Forum V -
DoubleTree Hotel-SB, morning & afternoon
• Thursday, March 26: LEAD Summit XI - SMSU Events Center, morning &
afternoon
 • Friday, March 27: Jovenes Comprometidos Youth Leadership Program XVI, Training
Occupational Development Educating Communities Legal Center - TODEC
Headquarters, morning & afternoon
• Saturday, March 28: César E. Chávez Memorial Breakfast IX - SMSU Events Center,
morning

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