Please join the Leichtag Foundation, Alliance San Diego and Espinosa Productions on Thursday, May 9th at 6PM, for a screening of Singing Our Way to Freedom, a documentary produced and directed by Paul Espinosa that tells the story of Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez, a leader of the Chicano movement and United Farm Workers Movement with Cesar Chavez. Chunky’s musical storytelling and songs of freedom have been revered for decades, offering inspiring narratives for generations of activism. You can view the film trailer here.
Program
6:00pm
Doors open with food/drinks
6:30pm
Welcome by the Leichtag Foundation
Conversation led by Paul Espinosa, the filmmaker, and Andrea Guerrero, Executive Director of Alliance San Diego, including an update on U.S. immigration issues and “Know Your Rights” information.
7:00pm
Film screening
8:30pm
Lessons for activism inspired by Chunky Sanchez
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.