De Anza College will host its third annual globalization conference “From Global to Mobile” on Thursday, March 8 in the Hinson Campus Center. The event is sponsored by Latina/o Empowerment at De Anza and is scheduled to run from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in conference rooms A and B.

LEAD program coordinator and English instructor Marc Coronado said the conference hopes to encourage “students to be able to focus on not only the problems that are posed by globalization, but also on what people can do to help make life better in spite of some of the forces that are coming against them.”

The conference will include interactive games such as “Debunking the Myths about Immigration” and “Globalization Debates: using data & statistics,” awareness seminars such as “Immigration 101” and “The Women of Juarez,” and musical and dance performances by De Anza students.

Photojournalist David Bacon has participated in the past two conferences and will speak this year as well. Much of his work focuses on the stories of immigrants and workers’ rights.

“Students need to first of all learn about what their rights are as workers and then to help figure out with other workers how to make sure that our rights are respected and enforced,” said Bacon. “I think that De Anza students are curious about the world, that they are trying hard to understand it, and they’re not afraid to put that understanding into practice.”

All students are welcome to join any of the presentations taking place throughout the day.

For more information on the “From Global to Mobile” conference, contact Marc Coronado at [email protected] or 408.864.8409.

For more information about David Bacon and his work, visit

http://dbacon.igc.org/.