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 political education with other working-class youth, families, and educators.
Our work is grounded in the belief that education is a site of struggle. US schooling is shaped by capitalist development and settler colonial state formation. It organizes labor, enforces social discipline, and reproduces racialized and classed hierarchies. We organize political education rooted in the analysis of these concrete conditions and in the study of struggles already taking place in our communities. We create collective study that helps young people understand the social, political, and economic forces shaping their lives and develop the knowledge necessary to participate in movements for liberation.
We are anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist. We study traditions of national liberation, socialism, anti-colonial struggle, and revolutionary organizing as tools for understanding the world and changing it. We learn from movements across the world—in Palestine, Congo, Puerto Rico, Iran, the Philippines, and beyond. We understand political education as part of the broader struggle against exploitation, dispossession, borders, policing, and U.S. imperial domination and the necessary resistance that comes from study, including direct action and armed struggle.
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.
Support our work
Resourcing pays youth organizers, funds political education programs, and sustains our spaces and materials for study.
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