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Dear Friends,
Due to weather Panhe has been postponed until Oct 13,2024. We will see you all very soon ! Stay safe & dry

This Sunday!
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Ways the leaders of the US have failed our indigenous communities. Biden is leading a art ✌🏽

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students act how they’re treated, so why does staff consistently make such negative assumptions about the students that they’re there to serve?

Do you feel the absence? The absence of the models and systems that teach our kids (and us) how to work together…. How to use …. How to be kind through our acceptable differences….
To look beyond what works for me, what feels good to me and into truly seeing one another.

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Did you experience bullying in school?

✨🦋Lead me to the Garden comic book pre-orders are now open! 🦋✨

“Lead Me to the Garden” is a comic book by and for youth in Orange County. In collaboration with Orange County Environmental Justice (OCEJ), local OC youth, Helen Yajaira Estrada, Victoria Gomez, Angelu Lesaca, and Pearl Yoon, created this comic book which depicts some of the key issues with soil lead contamination in Santa Ana and OCEJ’s ¡PloNo! campaign 🌻

You can learn more about the ¡PloNo! campaign on the OCEJ website, here: https://www.ocej.org/plonosantana

To purchase a physical copy of “Lead Me to the Garden,” please use this google form in the link in bio and submit a copy of your ActBlue receipt 🤓

Sliding scale payment options! 🌈

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10 Children's Books to Talk to Your Kids About Palestine in 2023

Our children are never too little to learn about Palestine. Use these 10 children’s books as a starting point to educate the next generation on what we stand for.

As we continue to shake our heads in disbelief at the gross disinformation that mainstream media ceaselessly throws at us, one act of resistance comes to mind. And that is to empower and educate the next generation with facts. As a mother with Palestinian roots, my children must know their rich and varied heritage. I choose to teach them about it through the age-old tradition of simple yet compelling storytelling.

Below, you will find a list of books that honor Palestinian history, art, literature, and culinary heritage through beautiful stories suitable for children of all ages. Please encourage your friends and family to continue talking about Palestine.

How Can We Help the People of Palestine?

Our collective responsibility is to do whatever we can to support our Palestinian brothers and sisters through this horror. Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund is on the ground and is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine, delivering crucial and life-saving medical relief and humanitarian aid. Please consider donating generously to help continue this vital work in times of emergency. 100% of sales goes to the

InshAllah more will be restocked this week.

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“But why is a preschool teacher posting about Palestine? That’s so political.”

Kindly see yourself out, because you’re most likely a “progressive” person who doesn’t say this when I speak out against every other injustice that affects marginalized and oppressed peoples.

The story of Palestine is the first injustice and struggle for liberation that I ever learned about. 🇵🇸 It’s what brought me to my work.

In the past, Palestinians and their allies have been silenced and threatened for speaking out about the colonization of their land.

In fact, until recently, people and governments would falsely call you antisemitic if you even said the name “Palestine”, and not “Palestinian territories.” This was intentionally meant to suppress solidarity and the truth about Palestine, while it also meant that antisemitism (a very present and dangerous form of bigotry against Jewish people) was misrepresented as criticizing Israel’s violent establishment and ethnic cleansing.

And with so much false information and deflection that continues to frame Palestine as a “two-sided, complicated, religious conflict”, I had to speak out and share my lifetime of knowledge and research on the Palestinian struggle for justice.

Please amplify Palestinian voices. Please listen to Jewish voices when they stand in solidarity and tell Israel to stop colonizing Palestine in the name of their religion. Israeli genocide does not represent Judaism. Justice for one is justice for all.

I invite you to continue reading Palestinian stories and speaking with your children about Palestine, the way you do with all forms of racism and oppression.

You are welcome to ask me questions to help you unlearn the anti-Palestinian and orientalist rhetoric we’ve all been taught. You are NOT welcome to attack me by falsely claiming my solidarity with Palestinians is antisemitic.

There is hope. There is light. Freedom begins with knowledge.

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Some thoughts, ideas and inspiration for this Sunday morning. May this week bring you a felt sense of safety and purpose, lots of laughter, and family connection 💞

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ADULTS WORKING WITH NATIVE YOUTH

About the Training
(Adult Track)
This training is for youth workers and others who serve youth to bring back more skills, information, techniques and resources to the workplace in order to better serve Native youth. A team of Native adults representing different tribal nations, all who utilize culture-based programming with their youth programs, will be the facilitators.

Ceremony, traditional games, healing processes and more will be included in this highly interactive three-day training that will leave you changed in a good way and with a road map to bring this positive change back to your workplace.

Training Topics
+ Working with Native Youth
+ How to Build Team and Trust
+ Significance of Integrating Culture
+ Traditional Games
+ Connecting to the Land
+ Tools for Wellness and Healing
+ Youth Work through a
Native Trauma and Healing Lens
+Self Awareness to Youth Awareness
+ Wellness in the Workplace for Youth Programs

NATIVE YOUTH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

About the Training
(Youth Track)
Native youth need caring adults to provide guidance, support, direction, and skills for personal growth and development. The Native Youth Leadership Gathering does just that. Activities focus on their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being and help to prepare them to be positive contributing members in their school, family, and community. Youth participants engage in a journey of ceremony, sharing, learning, and experiencing leadership development. Youth from throughout Native Country will be able to learn about healing, Native wellness, leadership, spirituality, and healthy risk-taking. In addition, they will meet other youth who are on similar paths and will be able to network and connect with other amazing youth.

Training Topics
+ Native Wellness
+ Culture and Spirituality
+ Leadership
+ Healthy Lifestyles
+ Power of Positive Thinking
+ Finding Your Voice
+ Traditional Games
+ Healthy Relationships
+ Healthy Sexuality

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What if I told you that the "Day of the Dead" is a colonized holiday?

And the original "Day of the Dead" was not 1 or 2 days but 40 days and nights...

AND it wasn't in November, but in August & September to align with the cycles of nature on our continent? 🏵️

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In my opinion one of the most powerful lessons we can learn from the ancestral people of Anahuak (Mesoamerica), is that living aligned with the cycles of nature is the root of a holistically healthy society. And making time & space to honour all aspects of the cycles of life & death are crucial for our wholeness & integrity as living beings. So making time to honor death, grief & our ancestors, vital parts of our lives, was done collectively. As opposed to our society where we often are expected to grieve in silence & isolation...

This powerful tradition goes deep, so much deeer than the commercial holiday it has become, and has the potential to truly heal us on a collective level

If this calls to you and you would like to learn more about the ancestral perspectives of death & the practices that were done during these days, join us for this workshop next Sunday, in which we will learn:

▪️the native/indigenous origins of the Day of the Dead
▪️The differences between "Dia de Mu***os" & the ancestral veintenas
▪️a decolonized meaning of death in these ancient societies
▪️the significance of the month of Tlaxochimako & Xokotl Huetzi, the original two "Months of the Dead"
▪️Ways to honour your beloved who have passed
▪️explanations & practices for the Teteomeh

Join us on:
Sun Sept 3
2pm CST
Register at INASCA .org
$26 offering for sacred reciprocity

DM if you have questions or email [email protected]

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✨Reposting these slides from last year for those who would like to engage their kids around this holiday. I’m hoping to release a free Learning Guide tomorrow as well, but I’m being careful not to make promises I’m not sure I can keep. If it comes together, you’ll find out through my mailing list. Sign up on my website (link in bio).

I have had increasingly conflicting feelings over celebrating 4th of July in the last several years, but for some reason, even this year, I still struggle to reject it completely. These slides are a suggestion to get you started if you’re looking for ways to frame the day for your kids, but they are absolutely not a one size fits all. Adapt with specificity and depth depending on your child’s age and background knowledge. This is written to be friendly for the littlest kids, but could be expanded significantly for older kids. Take what’s useful, leave what’s not.

✨There’s also a post from last year on the blog about how I’ve grappled with engaging with my kids responsibly around this holiday. (Link in bio).

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Over these past several years many folks have worked to bring this project to fruition.

We’ve learned about with and it’s been awesome to be able to get in there and work with them.

Today we’re inviting everyone to come join us for this celebration 🎉 aand commemoration of all the hard work that has gone into the project. The first of its it’s kind in Santa Ana 🙌🏽

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Santa Ana is in desperate need of a youth center! We created a survey and held focus groups to understand how youth felt about the availability of youth spaces in Santa Ana. Make your voice heard this week at the city council meeting on June 6th!
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this weekend we had our first mesa “retreat” aka gather at someone’s house and eat falafel whilst making plans for the rest of the year, y
We got to sit around and laugh and talk through challenges and it all feels so good.
We started as just a couple of moms mixing into a bigger community that has outgrown our casita 💖
We are updating our website 🎉
And looking forward to growing into our values and intentions to make and more accessible to our communities.

This is true for all of us at all ages, we never stop needing guidance or community.

Our semillas need this most of all as they navigate huge shifts and changes largely for the first time in their lives.

As we break cycles and pave new paths we have to keep thinking about the big picture and center actions, words and spaces that center love.

In this way we all learn, shift and grow.

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accounts to follow:

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Happy Compost Awareness Week!
We wanted to mention just a FEW of the many positive effects of recycling your organic matter and using compost to grow our food! And remember, when you recycle your scraps locally, like at Community Roots Farm, we are using less energy to move them it a larger facility (and you are supporting our efforts!) So, bring us your scraps!

Feliz Semana de Conciencia de Compost!
¡Queremos mencionar algunos de los muchos effectos positivos de reciclar su materia orgánica y usar compost para crecer nuestro comida! Y recuerde, cuando reciclas los residuos localmente, como en Community Roots Farm, estamos usando menos energía para moverlos al un facilidad mas lejos (ademas estas apoyando nuestros esfuerzos!) Entonces, nos trae tus residuos!

Vamos!!! 💃🏾🕺🏽👯‍♀️
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Join us on Sat. June 17th at Centennial Park for a historical celebration, at the Santa Ana Juneteenth Festival!

Take part in an educating and empowering day that celebrates freedom and new opportunities. This free family-friendly event will have live entertainment, food, guest speakers, kid's activities, and more! Follow the linktree to learn more.

Working on week #10 of our curriculum 😆 Which focuses on what it is, and how it applies to parenting, discipline, and all of our relationships to one another.
Here's one of the videos that we will be featuring in this curriculum. Hope you enjoy!

Cancel Culture vs. Transformative Justice Join Dr. Karen McDowell for another installment of Small Bites. Learn more about how to navigate and differentiate between cancel culture and transformative ...

Following our theme from last week…
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What is worm tea? 🪱☕️

Worm tea is a nutrient rich fertilizer for cultivating plant growth. It’s a great alternative to store bought chemical fertilizer!

🚨Turn on notifications for to learn more about vermicompost, tea you can’t drink, and to stay updated on details of what goods and services we’re offering ♡

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Happy gentle Monday y’all 💞

Today’s zoom class was all about 🎉

It’s always super fun & funny to be talking about p**p 💩 in class with the kids 😂

𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐳 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬 🎉 here’s a sneak peak at todays class