International Women’s Day 2008

International Women’s Day 2008

This year, 2008, will mark the 97th annual International Women’s Day (March 8). The first International Women’s Day was launched on March 8, 1911 in Copenhagen by Clara Zetkin, Leader of the ‘Women’s Office’ for the Social Democratic Party in...
Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance II

Indigenous People’s Night of Resistance II

Last year some campus and community organizer friends invited me to help organize an event for Indigenous People’s Day. The event was a combination of consciouness raising and celebration. The annual NIght of Cultural Resistance that students of color on campus...
Chicana Art & Spirituality

Chicana Art & Spirituality

University Press Books in Berkeley held a reception for Laura Perez’s new book Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities. Laura is an associate professor at Cal  and though I never took a class with her I admired her from afar. (I...
Deporten La Migra

Deporten La Migra

Jesus and I collaborated on creating a poster for a coalition called Tierra y Libertad in Arizona. We met organizers from the organization while eating pozole at a fundraiser for Colective Zapatista Ramona’s effort to raise funds for the Cucapa people. It was a...