July 22, 2024 7:00pm-9:00pm | Landmark Elementary School, 235 Ohlone Pkwy, Watsonville, CA
Register Here: bit.ly/pvesj-freedom-school
The Center for Racial Justice is proud to co-sponsor the 2024-25 Ethnic Studies Freedom School, organized by Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ), a coalition of teachers, parents, students, and community organizers who have ceaselessly organized for an ethnic studies education that is responsive to local communities of color.
In the tradition of freedom and liberation schools, the 2024-25 Ethnic Studies Freedom School imagines education in the service of people most impacted by racialized forms of structural violence.
Starting this July and going into next fall, which marks the fortieth anniversary of the start of the 1985-87 Watsonville cannery strike, our monthly Ethnic Studies Freedom School will focus on community empowerment through collective study of the Watsonville cannery strike and its grassroots transformation of Watsonville. From a foundation of community knowledge, we will learn from each other and collectively study and organize to enact people power, economic justice, food sovereignty, abolition and community safety, and healing.
Please join us for our first community educational event, a film screening of ¡SÍ SE PUEDE! and a conversation with community members who supported the strike.
This Event is Sponsored By:
PVESJ | The Center for Racial Justice | Resource Center for Nonviolence | MILPA
