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2021 is a special Cinco de Mayo

May 4, 2021 by

Cinco de Mayo celebrates the 1862 Battle of Puebla, the beautiful temperate Mexican City that is home to UPAEP. This 2021 Cinco de Mayo celebration has special significance (and an immigrant connection) see below. At 5:30pm May 5th please join the Bronx-based Mexican Coalition, CIPS, CCNY LALS and UPAEP for a special Cinco de Mayo celebration on Zoom, Facebook or at Monroe College, a healthy 15 minute (.7 mile) walk from Fordham’s Rosehill campus. Unfortunately, some of us have a graduate class at 7:30pm Wednesday evening and so we may attend online. If you plan to attend in person please bring your COVID-19 vaccination* card. This is not a Fordham Event, but do show your ID at Monroe college and mention Jairo Guzman or Darryl McLeod at the door. (*NYS now is committed to vaccinating everyone 16 or older, for times and locations see Google Maps or call Fordham Security x2222).

On May 5th, 1862, Texas-born General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated a much larger French force. After years of war, Benito Juárez, a lawyer and first Indigenous Mexican President of Indigenous Zapotec origins, defaulted on the “odious debt” accumulated by previous governments. In a classic exercise of “gunboat diplomacy,” Spain, France, Britain, and the United States sent military units to Veracruz to collect their debts. Preoccupied with the Civil War, President Lincoln quickly negotiated a settlement, as did the British and Spanish. This left French Emperor Napoleon III (nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) to continue with what he saw as an opportunity to make Mexico a French colony. Indeed, a larger French Army made it to Mexico City in June 1863, just as the decisive Battle of Gettysburg began. Roos (2019 ) argues the The Battle of Puebla prevented French troops from reaching Mexico City in time to help the Confederacy by buying their Cotton (which Europe desperately needed due to the Union blockade).

The Battle of Puebla takes on special significance this year. On January 6th, 2021 it was startling to see Confederate battle flags flying inside the U.S. Capitol (a symbolic display that eluded the Confederacy). Hence 2021 is a perfect year to honor the brave Mexican soldiers led by a Texas-born Mexican General who defeated a much larger French Army on Cinco de Mayo in 1862. Other Texas Immigrants played a role as well: Texas officially joined the Confederate States of America in 1861, but many 1st generation Texans of German and Mexican descent remained pro-Union. Some fled to Mexico but on August 1st, 1862 thirty-four pro-Union 1st generation German immigrants were murdered by Confederate troops (the infamous Nueces Massacre.) Then as now, Mexican and European immigrants in Texas wanted nothing to do with the White Supremacist views of the State’s Confederate leaders.

Filed Under: Conferences, Events, Migration, Partners, spotlight, Uncategorized

Data-Pop Alliance Director Emmanuel Letouzé: Nov. 19th 7:30pm Making Data Matter Human AI for Development

November 9, 2020 by

Please join us in welcoming Data Pop Alliance co-founder Dr. Emmanuel Letouzé for a presentation and discussion how Big Data can be used to promote inclusive and sustainable economic development; for example, to monitor global inequalities and envision corrective actions. The Data Pop Alliance founding members include the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Connection Science, and London’s Alliance, and the group is currently working on Colombia’s National Big Data  ODI and Sweden’s Flowminder Foundation, the Data Pop Strategy or OPAL* with UN ESCWA in Lebanon, with Oxfam Mexico on Gender Violence and on the Global South COVID Recovery Plan (see the C-19 Global South Observatory), and on the Global South Response  and Recovery Vision and Action Plan from UN DESA. In addition to Dr. Letouzé, Fordham’s Computer Science Department will be present to discuss a new CISC-ECON course, Data for Development: OPAL or Open Access Algorithms for Better Decisions. If you have any questions, please contact research and teaching assistant Jeffrey Yozwiak at jyozwiak@fordham.edu or CIPS/Economics faculty member Darryl McLeod at mcleod@fordham.edu. To attend, you will need to register in advance at the link below.

https://fordham.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpfuGtqzgqGdJJfjR0lly6Db4iimbCmgNa

To learn more about the Data-Pop Alliance’s work combatting global inequalities, click here:

Inequalities and Discriminations

Filed Under: Conferences, Development, Partners, Research, spotlight, Uncategorized

CIPS-UPAEP Mexican Migration Conference in Puebla Mexico Nov 14th & 15th 2019

November 8, 2019 by

The Changing Faces of Migration in Mexico And The USA: Challenges and New Opportunities

Salon T 252 (November 14th) & Salon T 553 (November 15th) Campus Central, Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla

Filed Under: Conferences, Events, Migration, spotlight, Uncategorized

Financial Inclusion in the age of Mass Incarceration Flom Auditorium Thursday Oct 17th 2019, 12-2pm

October 15, 2019 by

Thursday October 17th 2019 12:00pm- 2:00pm

Flom Auditorium William D. Walsh Family Library

Fordham University, 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY

Speakers:

Darney K Born Rivers, I AM MY COMMUNITY

Imam Sheikh Musa Drammeh, Community Public Safety Partnership

Marion Frampton, TBS New Direction

Paule Cruz Takash, SF Global LLC

Sunitha Malieckal, Greyston Bakery

Sponsors:

Fordham Center for International Policy Studies

Fordham Social Innovation Collaboratory

Spring Bank

For more information contact Max Lynch mlynch63@fordham.edu

Filed Under: Conferences, Events, Finance, spotlight

South Bronx Financial Inclusion

October 8, 2019 by

Thursday October 10th 2019

11 AM E530 Dealy Hall

Maxwell Lynch -speaker

Filed Under: Conferences, Development, Events

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