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CAFE City College
CAFE: Creating Alternatives and Fair Enterprise
City College CAFÉ is a campus club that advocates for human rights, fair trade and alternative economies. We realize that policies of so called “free trade” increase exploitation, violence and pollution. Free trade policies also force millions to abandon home and migrate.
City College current activities:
City College current activities:
(1) Fair Trade Coffee: all the coffee that is sold in our campus cafeterias MUST be certified fair trade coffee.
(2) Educate against maquiladoras: Tijuana has near 1,000 maquiladoras that ruin the people and the land. We support the organizations of Tijuana workers and communities that fight against the maquiladoras.
(3) Migration is a human right: We support the activities of IDEAS and other clubs and organizations defending the rights of undocumented workers and students.
CAFÉ meetings
Fridays 2:30-4 pm in room R 112
More information
Carolina Moreno:
PHEEM527@YAHOO.COM
(619) 755-4964
Websites
Individuals Dedicated to the Educational Achievement of all Students (IDEAS)
Individuals Dedicated to the Educational Achievement of all Students (IDEAS)
IDEAS is a student organization that seeks to bring support, rights and information to AB 540, undocumented, and financially challenged students and supporters at San Diego City College. We also seek to inform our community about the many opportunities that are available for AB 540 Students. We form an alliance of individuals working together, sharing our experience, struggles, and success, to fulfill our personal and educational goals as undocumented individuals and those who have financial needs.
¡La educación no debería tener barreras, La Educación es Para Todos!
Contact info:
Susana Sanchez
m.susy09@gmail.com
I.D.E.A.S.
CONTACT: ideasclubsdcc@gmail.com
Facebook: Ideas Sdcc
El Coyote News
A monthly newsletter of the Chicano/a studies community at San Diego City College Crossing borders, news, analysis and culture
E mail: elcoyotecitycollege@gmail.com
Mixtec Cultural Exchange Program
Interested in making a difference in the lives of Mixtec people?
Come and join us to teach Spanish/English while you make friends and learn about the Mixtec Culture!
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-8 pm
Bayside Community Center
2202 Comstock St. San Diego, CA 92111
Octavio Rodriguez, (626) 347-3187
E-mail: hola.octavio@gmail.com
Julieta Gonzalez (619) 244-4076
E-mail: juliet_jgt@yahoo.com
Centro Cultural de la Raza
San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza was founded in 1970 as a Chicano Community Cultural Center and functions as an alternative space that encourages and facilitates artistic growth and cultural interchange in the San Diego/Tijuana region. The Centro provides classes and features a dynamic interdiscipinary schedule of events which includes exhibits, musical performances, installation art, readings, receptions, Azteca dance, Teatro Chican@, Ballet Folklorico, film screenings and other events.
Contact information:
Enrique de la Cruz
E mail: elcucui09@hotmail.com
Website Centro Cultural
Bringing Education and Activism Together (BEAT)
The purpose of this organization is to create an open forum to educate and raise awareness about issues regarding global citizenship and responsibility on the City College Campus. Our goal is to promote discussion and academic debate, facilitate teach-ins, film showings, concerts and other campus events to bring students and community members together. To encourage networking between existing campus organizations and provide an avenue for discussion about student related issues. The main objective is to promote peace, increase political awareness, encourage a respectful environment devoid of oppression and intolerance, and increase campus activism.
Contact: thecitybeatclub@gmail.com
Border Angels
Founded by Enrique Morones in 1986, Border Angels is a non-profit organization supporting humanity. The organization consists of extraordinary volunteers who want to stop unnecessary deaths of individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. The high percentage of unnecessary deaths have been results of extreme heat and cold weather conditions, in addition some have sadly been the results of racial-discrimination crimes.Contact: Isabel Montano, Border Angels Coordinator
E-mail: imontano3@cox.net
Angeles del Desierto
We are volunteer group that does search and rescue operations in the desert and mounaneous regions of the border between the United States and Mexico. We aid search and rescue events, provide food, water, clothing and first aid emergency aid to people found in these extreme conditions until they cna be taken to a place where they can further assistance. We work in coordination with other groups in both sides of the border in order ot save the lives of those people that would surely perish because they lack basic needs such as water, food and appropriate clothing for the harsh conditions of the region.
Contact: Rafael Hernandez
Education for All
Education for All is a county-wide coalition in San Diego, California, that believes it is the responsibility of the state to allocate taxpayer money in the interests of society as a whole. We see the educational crisis first and foremost as a crisis of the mind and, therefore, a crisis that can only be remedied through the self-development of the individual utilizing the agent of education itself. The fact that education ranks 48th in California’s spending in a budget whose top ranking investment is prison expansion, reflects the clouded vision and overall irrationality of politicians on both sides of the political spectrum. Therefore, we uphold the urgency to re-establish the public educational institution as a central organ of society, with the power to remedy the many ills afflicting our state, and nation, today.
Meetings: Tuesday 5 pm
Contact:
E-mail: EducationForAllCoalition@live.com
Website: http://educationforallcoalition.com/
Meetings: Tuesday 5 pm
Contact:
E-mail: EducationForAllCoalition@live.com
Website: http://educationforallcoalition.com/
Environmental Health Coalition
Environmental Health Coalition is one of the oldest and most effective grassroots organizations in the United States, using social change strategies to achieve environmental justice.
Mission Statement: EHC is dedicated to achieving environmental and social justice. We believe that justice is accomplished by empowered communities acting together to make social change. We organize and advocate to protect public health and the environment threatened by toxic pollution. EHC supports broad efforts that create a just society which foster a healthy and sustainable quality of life.
Problem Statement: As one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, San Diego's toxics problems are myriad, often compounded by its location on the U.S./Mexico border. Critical evidence of the San Diego/Tijuana region's pollution crisis includes:
Over 150 million pounds of toxic waste are generated each year by San Diego industries and over 3 million pounds of toxic pollutants are discharged annually into the air.
Communities of color such as Barrio Logan in San Diego, are most at risk. Studies indicate that toxic air emissions from just one facility creates a cancer risk 600 times above the accepted level for this community.
Contaminated sites have been discovered at 22 separate sites on North Island Coronado, a Naval installation.
San Diego bay is one of the most polluted harbors in the United States. A study released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration listed San Diego Bay as the second most toxic of 18 bays studied , second to Newark Bay, New Jersey. 56% of the Bay sediments are acutely toxic to marine organisms, while 74% of the area exhibited chronic toxicity. The most toxic sites were found along the shipbuilding and Navy facilities adjacent to Barrio Logan.
Tijuana has approximately 800 maquiladora industries, more than any other city along the U.S./Mexico border. The majority of these manufacturing industries are highly polluting such as furniture, plastics, metal, and electronics production.
Environmental Health Coalition: No on Proposition 23
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Mecha)
What you can gain in M.E.Ch.A.:
1. Leadership
2. Unity and Diversity
3. Community
4. Education
5. Familia
M.E.Ch.A. (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan) de San Diego City focuses on promoting higher education to raza youth, and to provide all the essential tools to fascilitate this process. We strive to address all relevant issues that affect our gente, and we also work diligently every year to address the low numbers of raza students on university campuses. por la RAZA todo, sin la RAZA nada. UNIDOS VENCEREMOS.
Meeting Tuesdays 2:30-3:30 pm @ Cafeteria
E-mail: mechadesdcity@gmail.com
SAME: San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality
The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (SAME) is an open, democratically-run organization committed to fighting for LGBT rights including marriage equality.
Meetings: Please join us the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the Month at 6:30 at a Residential Building on the SE Corner of 4th & Walnut (street parking after 6pm is FREE.) Signs at the gate will guide you to the meeting space which is UPSTAIRS on the 2nd floor. SAME meetings are open to the public.
Contact: info@samealliance.com
San Diego May 1st Coalition
San Diego May 1st Coalition--We are a regional and bi-national network of activists and organizations committed to immigrant rights and social justice in the US/Mexico border region.
Over twenty grassroots organizations have come together to demand the rights of working class communities in San Diego, to denounce deportations and the separation of families.
E-mail: sdmay1st@googlegroups.com
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