[Cwgrad-announcements] Benifit Read

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Dear All,
Aside from great established poets some grad students will be reading
and I will be DJ... (please see details below)
I think it will be fun! Come one come all and bring your friends--it's
for a good cause too!
best,
Gaby

Tomás Rivera Endowment,
UCR Chicano Student Programs &
The UCR Department of Creative Writing presents

De Corazón / From The Heart

A Benefit Read / Riverside
June 3rd/Sat * Universalist Unitarian Church
(corner of Mission Inn & Lemon St.)
5:00-8:30 pm

for Alfred Arteaga, Ph.D., poet,
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, 
Berkeley
In Need of Heart Surgery

$10.00 minimum donation

Writers, Artists; Mark Guerrero Band, Margarita Luna Robles,
Sholeh Wolpe, Judy Kronenfeld, Devra Weber, Cristy Flores,
Armando Cepeda, Eliud Martinez, Jo Scott Coe, Adolfo Mejía, JFHerrera
& Gabriela Jáuregui

(951) 827-5027 / (559) 940-4219 info

Arteaga's website -- www.alfredarteaga.com

Marisol and Mireya Arteaga,
daughters of Alfred Arteaga will be present to
represent the Arteaga family.
Donations payable to: Alfred Arteaga

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Have A Heart, Give to A Heart:
¡Alfred Arteaga Needs Us Now!
I just received this note from Chicano poet, professor & critical
theorist, Alfred Arteaga, or rather, from his daughter. He needs us
now -- to raise $50,000 to pay for treatment that may save his life.
We need Alfred Arteaga in this life. Please, give what you can and
find creative ways to raise more. At one point there was a plan to
have various people record some of his poems for a cd to sell -- but
he needs us now. His treatment can not wait. He needs a new heart, and
is looking to a new procedure to grow his own stem cells to help his
heart. They have scheduled the surgery for June. Please read the
message below and do what you can, and spread the word. Alfred is a
dear heart and a much-loved poet and cultural critic.

by Lorna Dee Cervantes

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Below is the original request for assistance by Alfred's daughters,
Marisol, Xóchitl, and Mireya Arteaga.

My name is Xóchitl Arteaga, and together with my sisters Marisol and
Mireya, we write to ask you for assistance with our father, Alfred
Arteaga, who is in need due to failing health.
In 1999 our father suffered a massive heart attack and spent six weeks
in a coma. He survived but spent a year in recovery, learning to walk
again. He improved greatly and went back to full time teaching at
Berkeley. Then in 2005 he suffered a second heart attack and has been
in and out of the hospital. He continues to teach full time but is in
need of treatment, perhaps a heart transplant.  We are looking for
alternative treatments.
There is a new program of stem cell treatment that is successful in
cases like his. By cultivating his own stem cells, doctors can now
infuse the heart to create new and stronger muscle. His American
cardiologists are supportive.
The most effective  procedure of this kind was developed by a US
cardiologist and is done by US doctors in Thailand. This is because US
hospitals are in trials now, as the procedure is not yet FDA approved.
We cannot wait years for the approval process to run its course. We
have scheduled his stem cell operation for June 2006, and we are doing
everything in our power to fund our father's treatment.
Please help us by donating money to this cause. We need to raise
$50,000 for the procedure, follow-up treatment and associated
expenses. We hope you will help us.

Thanks everyone! ¡Gracias a tod at s!