CELEBRATE THE LIFE, STRUGGLE AND VISION OF OUR BELOVED LEADER AND TEACHER, BERT CORONA

From:
Nativo Vigil Lopez
Hermandad Mexicana Nacional

Los Angeles, California - The Hermandad Mexicana Nacional and family of our beloved leader and teacher, Bert Corona, invite you to celebrate his life, struggle, and vision at the following services:

Viewing and Pay Respect to Family: Saturday, Jan 20th from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Cesar Chavez Health Center - 2501 So. Hill Street, Los Angeles (corner of 25th and Hill Streets);

March and Mass: Saturday, Jan. 20th from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at St. Vincent Catholic Church - 621 West Adams, Los Angeles (corner of Adams and Figueroa Blvd.);

Community Memorial Service - Eulogies, remembrances, tributes - Saturday, Jan. 20th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at East Los Angeles Community College Auditorium on Cesar Chavez Blvd. (West of Atlantic Blvd.) in East Los Angeles

Let us mourn and celebrate together the tremendous contributions of a great working class heroe and leader of the Mexican, Mexican-American, and Latino communities in the United States. There is no other Mexican, Mexican-American or Latino leader in the history of the United States with a longer and more versatile trajectory of social struggle in favor of workers and immigrants for social justice, dignity, and fairness than our beloved leader, brother, and teacher, Bert Corona. The full history of this great leader has yet to be written. His greatest legacy to all immigrants, workers, and youth, was his perennial optimism and faith in the capability of the working masses to organize themselves, forge their own leaders, understand the complexity of their oppression, and struggle for social change. His energy was boundless. His hostility to discrimination and injustice was recalcitrant. His stubborness and persistence before seemingly insurmontable odds and challenges were recognized by both friend and foe. We are left to accept and pickup the baton he has handed us and modestly attempt to emulate his example. He will be solely missed.

In 1993 the Unviersity of California Press published Corona's autobiography, Memories of Chicano History. Professor Mario T. Garcia, who collaborated with Corona in the preparaton of the narrative of his Memories, stated, "Bert Corona was born in (May 29) 1918 in El Paso, Texas, a child of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Through his family, Corona symbolizes the thousands of mexican immigrants and refugees who crossed the U.S.-Mexican border-a border created by nineteenth-century U.S. expansion-seeking jobs and safety."

He currently served as National Director and Executive Director of the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, a national non-profit membership community based organization of Spanish-speaking immigrants headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Please forward all correspondence to:
Hermandad Mexicana Nacional
634 So. Spring Street, 8th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90014

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