Homegrown Youth Collaborative is a peoples school based in the Southern California and Tijuana border region. We are made up of young people and workers organizing across borders to take back our education. Together with insurgent youth, families, and educators of the Global Majority, we build collective liberatory knowledge projects grounded in struggle.
We are anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and abolitionist. We believe in national liberation, revolutionary socialism, and the power of collective study to fight empire.
What we do:
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We create political education programs that connect theory to action.
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We host teach-ins, study groups, and workshops.
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We produce our own workbooks and learning tools.
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We run international learning spaces and language exchanges.
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We support youth organizers through trainings and long-term political homebuilding.
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We link youth into local and international movements fighting imperialism, policing, borders, and displacement.
- Schools aren’t broken. They’re doing what they were built to do: sort, punish, and prepare working-class youth to serve empire.
- We reject the carceral logic of U.S. schooling.
- We believe youth don’t need classrooms to be theorists, and don’t need degrees to fight for life.
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Our way of studying looks different. We don’t memorize facts—we ask questions. We study contradictions. We take a dialectical and historical materialist approach to learning, rooted in the needs of the masses. We learn from movements across the world—in Palestine, Congo, Puerto Rico, Iran, the Philippines, and beyond. We honor all forms of resistance: everyday refusal, cultural survival, political education, direct action, and armed struggle.
Our learning is inseparable from grief, from the material realities of our neighborhoods, from our desire to live otherwise.
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Resourcing our work helps pay youth organizers, fund political education, and build the collective infrastructure we need to keep organizing across borders and across ages.
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