7pm Friday December 4, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas

CineResistencia presents a documentary film screening of We Will Always Be Here (Sol Rojo Productions)

Juárez-Lincoln University, 715 East First Street, was founded in 1971 in Austin, Texas, as a Mexican American center of higher education. It was a direct out growth of the wider Chicano/amovement for civil rights, self-determination, & ethnic pride that took root & grew from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Eventually, Juárez-Lincoln was closed in 1979, when Antioch University withdrew its support. However, the Juárez-Lincoln building continued to be used by local groups, including the League of United Chicano Artists and Mujeres Artistas del Suroeste. The building, with its mural by Raul Valdez employing pre-Columbian imagery, became a symbol for East Austin residents. When real estate developers announced in 1980 that the building would be demolished to make way for an office building (IHOP), neighborhood groups took the battle to court, hoping to turn the building into a neighborhood center. After litigation the building was demolished in 1983.