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MALDEF Voting Rights Event

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The current administration shows us how important it is for Latinx to show up and vote for leaders that will represent and fight for the Latinx community.  The 2020 Census has a citizenship question which will negatively impact Latinx participation. Latinx communities will fear answering the census will lead to deportation and will skip the census altogether. Census data direclty affects the number of representatives a state has, this census will disempower Latinx voters. The La Raza Law Students Association co-sponsored a talk with Tanya Pellegrini about Latinx voting right and the work that MALDEF does to protect them- in particular, suing the current administration about the citizenship question. This talk helped empower students and become aware of the role of lawyers in protecting Latinx voting rights. 

Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.