Boyle Heights to Honor Working-Class Women


Los Angeles, CA –
Saturday, March 7th from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at the Benjamin Franklin Library the Boyle Heights group Centro Community Service Organization (Centro CSO) will host Día Internacional de la Mujer | 7 de Marzo Boyle Heights. CSO aims to honor and represent local women doing local work in the following areas: LGBT rights, fighting for Socialism, defending public education, fighting against police terror/brutality, and ending deportations.

Speakers participating will include a high school student from Garfield High School, Rosario Bonilla from Centro CSO, Josefina Rizo mother of 16-year-old Jose Mendez who was killed by LAPD, Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin who was attacked at the Chicano Moratorium in 1970 by LAPD/LASD, Eloisa Galindo of Eastside Padres Contra la Privatizacion de Educacion, and Sol Marquez from Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

WHO: working-class women of Boyle Heights

WHAT: Día Internacional de la Mujer | 7 de Marzo Boyle Heights

WHEN: Saturday, March 7, 2020 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm

WHERE: Benjamin Franklin Library, 2200 East 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033

WHY: to honor and represent local women of Boyle Heights

Questions regarding the event should be directed to Centro CSO (323) 943-2030, centrocso@gmail.com, twitter.com/CentroCSO, instagram.com/CentroCSO