Social Justice and Community Organizing Graduate Program, Prescott College
Prescott College's graduate program in Social Justice and Community Organizing (SJCO) combines applie
This presentation was given on August 15, 2024, over Zoom. It is a collaboration between the Chicano Liberation Committee of Denver, CO., and the Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida. Below is a description of the talk. This file is the presentation. Another file with the discussion will also be uploaded. The video of this meeting will be uploaded to YouTube and we will put the link to that in this description when it is.
"Aztlan represents more than a political stance; it is a declaration of Xicano identity and a call for resistance against settler colonial oppression. Aztlan embodies Xicano heritage, struggle, and a political vision for a future where our people are free from the constraints of a system never designed to serve us."
An idea I've been kicking around. Xicana/o/x spend so much time examining history - which is important. I think sometimes we forget that we're tomorrow's history. What happened 50 years ago is important but so is what's happening right now.
Be in the moment, right?
This episodes talks about how the current narratives questioning Xicano Indigeneity most likely originate with long term U.S. domestic counterinsurgency campaigns designed to depoliticize indigenous populations.
Insurgency is defined as a form of resistance against colonial or occupying forces.
Could those who label Aztlan as a tool of settler colonialism actually be long term government agents running a very sophisticated psyops in the Chicano community because they are worried about changing demographics in favor of Mexican Americans in the US and are trying to find a way to eliminate irredentist moves within the borders of the US.
From Aztlan to Palestine is a presentation that examines the intersections between the Palestinian liberation struggle and the Chicano liberation struggle in the United States. Using first hand experience and documents from the Raza Unida Party archive Ernesto Ayala describes in detail the similarities between both peoples histories and social movements showing how Aztlan and Palestina are closer than one would ever imagine.
In the context of the Xicano national liberation movement and the ideology of Aztlán, the Raza Unida Party (RUP) was a political party founded in 1970 in Crystal City, Texas. It emerged in response to systemic discrimination and the political disenfranchisement of Mexican Americans. The RUP aimed to achieve self-determination for the Xicano community through political representation, education reform, and economic justice. It sought to build a unified front advocating for the rights and interests of Xicano/as, emphasizing cultural pride and grassroots activism to challenge and dismantle colonial structures within the United States.
03/25/2022
We are excited to announce our first keynote speaker of the PRAXIS 2022 Conference, Lara Kiswani! Lara is the Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), serving poor and working class Arabs and Muslims across the San Francisco Bay Area, and organizing to overturn racism, forced migration, and militarism. See you there!
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PRAXIS Youth Organizing Conference 2022 | xicanxinstitute After a long break due to the pandemic, we are so excited to announce that PRAXIS is back! This year, the conference will take place virtually over the first two weekends in April. In response to the current political landscape with ongoing attacks against Ethnic Studies and "Critical Race Theory" a...
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Prescott College's Social Justice and Community Organizing graduate program combines HANDS-ON, EXPERIENTIAL learning with a rigorous academic curriculum. This critical, applied Master's degree is designed for students seeking the KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, RELATIONSHIPS, and EXPERIENCES necessary to understand, participate in, and pursue careers within social justice movements.
The SJCO curriculum is informed by the experiences of scholar-activist faculty, all of whom have long-term experiences working in social justice movements. In addition to our own experiences, we have conducted extensive interviews with Social Justice and Human Rights organizers, activists and managers of NGO's in the U.S. and abroad to learn what kinds of skills, knowledge and dispositions are most needed and sought after in these fields.
We have learned that movements across the globe are in need of people who have a rigorous and complex understanding of the ways social power relationships are organized and how social change is shaped; who have direct experience and personal connections to movement leaders and organizations; and who have skills and familiarity with practices, such as:
• Community organizing theory and practice,
• Media and communications strategy,
• Social Research (Corporate, Policy, and Political-Economic)
• Public Relations
• Campaign development and strategy,
• Fundraising philosophy and practice
SJCO prepares its graduates for movement jobs that exist and intentionally fosters opportunities to build skills, relationships, and connections.
The need for competent organizers has never been greater. As responsibility for social welfare is increasingly privatized and concentrated within corporate/philanthropic sectors, the need for individuals who know how help communities organize themselves, build grassroots power, and expand movements for social transformation becomes critical. The coupling of critical thinking and effective implementation is the hallmark of our program.
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