Saturday, February 1, 2025 1:00pm-6:00pm | 280 Main St, Watsonville, CA
In commemoration of the 1930 anti-Filipino race riots, the Tobera Project and Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ) welcomes you to our February Watsonville Ethnic Studies Freedom School, which will feature the documentary A Dollar a Day, A Dime a Dance (1984), followed by an ethnic studies presentation by the Watsonville Is in the Heart research team.
Why Freedom Schools? In the tradition of freedom and liberation schools, the Watsonville Ethnic Studies Freedom School fosters a space of political education in the service of local communities most impacted by structural violence and in community response to the failure of the prior PVUSD school board to heed the community’s call to support ethnic studies. Throughout the year, we will study histories of community struggle, with a focus on the Watsonville cannery strike and other movements for justice and their transformation of the local political landscape. From a foundation of community knowledge, we will learn from each other and engage in collective study in order to organize for justice and enact social transformation.
This Event is Sponsored By:
The Center For Racial Justice | Watsonville Is in the Heart | the Resource Center for Nonviolence | MILPA | Barrios Unidos | the Tobera Project | Santa Cruz Black | Pajaro Valley Arts | the Watsonville High AAPI Student Union
