30th Anniversary Program CBDIO

Building Indigenous Power in California

Dec 1 The Big Fresno Fair Industrial Education Building 1121 S Chance Ave Fresno, CA 93702

2023

5 PM

Photographs by David Bacon

Thank you to our Sponsors!

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Our Story

The Binational Center for Oaxacan Indigenous Development (CBDIO) is a non-profit community-based organization created by the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (FIOB) in 1993.

Since their foundations, FIOB and CBDIO have been working to make known the presence of our Indigenous migrant communities in California. These efforts have included organizing and ensuring our communities’ cultures, languages, and knowledge are recognized and respected by the systems and institutions impacting our lives.

As CBDIO, we have fought for 30 years to achieve the well-being, equity, and self-determination of Indigenous migrants in California through programs that promote civic participation and leadership development. These programs include language and education justice, health access, immigration rights, and worker power.

CBDIO is our communities’ connection with community agencies that provide different services from which they benefit.

CBDIO Timeline 1993 CBDIO obtained its 501(c)3 registration and opened its doors in Livingston, California in the County of Merced. CBDIO became the first organization in California focusing on the indigenous communities.

During this time The Indigenous People’s Project also began in collaboration with CRLA. 1996 CBDIO alongside the Monterey International Language Institute organized the first training for indigenous interpreters in the state of California held in San Juan Bautista.

1997 CBDIO created it’s first health project for migrant indigenous women. It was created with the intention of incorporating the participation of indigenous women in the civic and political life of our indigenous communities.

1998 CBDIO moves its headquarters from Livingston to the city of Fresno, California. The first employee was hired as a project coordinator.

1999 The indigenous medicine project is implemented.

During this year, CBDIO organized its first Guelaguetza in the city of Fresno, California.

2001 CBDIO receives it’s first scholarship from the California Endowment.

2002 The health and civic participation projects for indigenous migrants is created.

2005 CBDIO organizes the first conference on awareness and cultural sensitivity of indigenous medicine.

2006 CBDIO’s Greenfield office opens and the program First 5 Monterey is set in motion.

2010 CBDIO has a change in Executive Director and becomes part of creating the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Initiative.

2012 For the first time, indigenous communities were included in the creation of the City of Fresno’s general plan.

2018 Women take leadership of the organization 2019 The first Mixteco After School program is established in Fresno Unified 2020 CBDIO is included in the push for indigenous people to take part in the Census. During COVID-19, CBDIO was one of the only organizations that kept its doors open to provide information and support to the community. It also trained 27 Indigenous health workers across the state to provide information in indigenous languages.

2020 CBDIO opens its office in Madera, California 2022 CBDIO opens its office in Salinas, California

Letter from the Executive Director Thank you for coming and celebrating CBDIO’s 30th anniversary.

Today, we are celebrating your work and the work of people who have dedicated their lives to creating this organization. Among them, we remember Rufino Dominguez and Irma Luna, two pioneers of the Indigenous movement in California who paved the way for many of us. They worked tirelessly to make CBDIO what it is today.

Today, in this room, we are over 500 people, most of you Indigenous leaders who have participated with us in meetings and workshops. Many of you have shared your testimony with elected officials at the city and county level and have even traveled to Sacramento to fight for the respect and dignity of our communities. This celebration is for you. Among us, you will also find friends and allies of CBDIO, who collaborate with us to create a better future for all of our communities in Fresno and beyond.

Please get to know each other. There is nothing better than curiosity to continue to build harmony and respect among us.

Also, please take a moment to get to know the CBDIO staff. They work hard and are committed to advancing and working with our communities. Without them, our goals would not be possible.

Together, we are a multilingual and multicultural community who speak 13 unique Indigenous languages and who all have unique world views.

With this diversity, we welcome a new decade of dedication towards our communities. We reaffirm our commitment to our self-determination, liberty, and justice. We say enough of getting the bare minimum; in the next ten years, we have big plans. We want to have our own building that we can call our own. We also want to ensure we are building respect in the workplace. We don’t want any more abuse or anyone looking down at our work anymore. We want to continue to break cycles of poverty and ensure our kids get the same opportunities as others. But this work can not happen without you, so we invite you to continue participating and engaging others in our movement.

Together, we are creating Indigenous power in California.

Sarait Martinez CBDIO Executive Director

Agenda Master of Ceremonies: Miguel Villegas

5:00 Procession 5:30 Photo Exhibition with photographs by David Bacon 5:45 Welcome Oralia Maceda, Programs Director 6:00 Dinner and Cultural Program Music: Violin music by Sabino Luna 6:20 Assembly member Joaquín Arambula presents CBDIO with a State Resolution for their 30 year trajectory 6:30 History of CBDIO Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Cofounder of CBDIO

6:40

Special Recognitions Nayamin Martinez, Board President

6:50

Mini Documentary

by Videographers Dignicraft LLC

7:00

Vision to the Future Sarait Martinez, CBDIO Executive Director

7:10

Cake and Community Raffle

7:20 - 10 Music and Dance Band: Brillo de San Miguel

Special Recognitions The California Endowment The California Endowment’s mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. In 2001, the California Endowment gave CBDIO its first grant that allowed the organization to hire staff and to support building the infrastructure of the organization. Since then, the California Endowment has been a partner and champion in advancing health equity in the Indigenous communities in California.

Hugo Morales, Bilingual Radio Hugo Morales is the executive director and co-founder of Radio Bilingüe Inc., the national Latino radio network founded in 1976. He is responsible for leading and managing all aspects of the development and service delivery for this non-

profit organization whose mission is to serve as a voice to empower Latino and other underserved communities.

Radio Bilingüe is a transnational satellite community radio service in Spanish, English and Mixteco. He is originally from Cuyotepeji, Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca, in La Mixteca Baja in Southern Oaxaca. Recently, Mr. Morales received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University. Mr. Morales has been a long term partner and friend of CBDIO.

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado Dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado is a Mixteco migrant from Santa Cruz Rancho Viejo, Tecomaxtlahuaca, Oaxaca.

He is currently the Project Director at the UCLA Labor Center, Director of the Center for Mexican Studies, and core faculty in the UCLA Labor Studies program. He has previously held positions at several universities in the United States and was named the 2004-2005 Prince Claus Chair in Development and Human Rights at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. He currently serves as an advisor to several migrant organizations in California and Mexico, including the Fresno-based Binational Center for Oaxacan Indigenous Development (CBDIO), and the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations (FIOB). He is a co-founder of FIOB and CBDIO.

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