In collaboration with Project Yano, Secret City SoCal, Palestinian Youth Movement San Diego, and Veterans for Peace.
An intergenerational community workshop and film screening connecting the violence of militarism and young people’s resistance to militarization in the San Diego Tijuana borderlands, past and present.
We will be screening two powerful short films: “Connie Stay Home,” which explores the anti-Vietnam War campaign in San Diego that mobilized thousands of people to vote against sending the USS Constellation aircraft carrier back to Vietnam, and “Yo Soy El Army,” which takes a critical look at military recruitment targeting Latino communities, particularly young people. Alongside the screenings, we will be countermapping the military presence in our schools and neighborhoods through a series of activities. We will also hear from youth organizers and elders from past and ongoing anti-imperialist and anti-war movements.
Centro Cultural de la Raza
January 25th, 2025
6-8:30pm PST
An ongoing study/working group on a people’s history of education and people’s schooling.
Using readings and archival material, we will be exploring the relationship between education and settler colonialism, prisons, war/militarization, labor, and imperalism to develop a material analysis of historical and present day conditions of the US education system and colonial/neo-colonial education internationally. How have people used militancy and popular education to resist subjugation and organize themselves toward self-determination?
As a working group, will also explore how we can translate our study to political education programming within our communities, particularly in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands in which Homegrown’s work has been rooted.
November 2024-February 2025
Tuesdays, 6-7:30 pm PST
An Allied Media Conference learning session through the Youth Liberation for Education Justice Track. As part of the session, we will map out the ways the colonial educational project enforces violent borders within our communities/institutions/selves that limit our capacity to learn and imagine. Through an interactive brainstorm, we will reflect on the ecosystems of intergenerational knowledge that exist beyond the boundaries of classrooms, deconstructed borders (physical borders, binaries between young/old, etc.), and then collectively visualize what it takes to grow nourishing educational spaces beyond school.
Allied Media Conference - Virtual
July 1st, 2022
11-12:30 am PST
A three-part cross-border workshop and deep listening series all about sounds and our relationship to them across borders. An intergenerational program organized in collaboration with youth facilitators, Ana Cossío García and Daniela Sandoval Argüelles. We will traverse the SD-TJ border community listening to its many languages, sounds, movements, and landscapes with deep listening prompts as our guides. We will explore ways to disrupt and make space through sound by learning about audio distribution and pirate-radio platforms.
Tijuana - 18 de marzo parque
San Diego - 99 cent store
August 6th, 2022
10am-1:30pm PST
An intergenerational teach-in with Radical History Club and Homegrown youth educator, Sophie. They will guide us through the histories of violence of the US education system and how schools operate as a means of assimilation to the status quo and as a factory worker training ground.
Libélula Books & Co
February 12th, 2022
4-6:30pm PST