Homegrown Youth Collaborative is a peoples school based in the Southern California and Tijuana border region. We bring together young and older workers who are grounded in the belief that education is an active site of struggle, developing political education alongside working-class youth, families, and organizers to sharpen our capacity as crossgenerational workers.
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 develop collective study rooted in an analysis of these conditions and in the struggles already taking place in our localities. By grounding anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist theory in the concrete social, political, and economic forces shaping our everyday lives, we sharpen our political capacity 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 as preparation for the forms of resistance that struggle demands, including direct action and armed struggle.
What we do:
- We practice militant pedagogy, connecting anti-capitalist theory to collective action through teach-ins, study groups, workshops, and other learning programs
- We produce our own workbooks, curricula, and learning tools
- We facilitate internationalist study spaces and political exchanges to build strong anti-imperialist ties
- We support young people to build long-term political homes: we support those new to organizing as well as youth already organizing in other groups; and offer a space for young people interested in taking up political education themselves
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Resourcing funds political education programs and sustains our spaces and materials for study.
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