News From the Executive Committee (Aug 2011)

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ReVisioning MALCS Our Mission MALCS is an organization that supports Chicanas, Latinas, Native American and Indigenous women in higher education and community leadership. Our Vision MALCS is an organization that initiates dialogue amongst our members and creates exchanges with other social activist organizations drawing on our histories as well as emerging cultural thought and practice … Read more

News from the Exec: ReVisioning MALCS

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Our Mission

MALCS is an organization that supports Chicanas, Latinas, Native American and Indigenous women in higher education and community leadership.

Our Vision

MALCS is an organization that initiates dialogue amongst our members and creates exchanges with other social activist organizations drawing on our histories as well as emerging cultural thought and practice in order to address new global challenges.

Getting to Our Mission and Vision: Confronting Challenges to Mujeres

To evaluate where MALCS is, as an organization, we reflected on its role in social action, the purpose of our work and how it is linked to the movement for the transformation of our society.

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Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists

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Please help distribute widely to your communities.
All the best,
Anna Guevarra
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies and Sociology
University of Illinois at Chicago
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**For press inquiries, please contact feministdelegation@gmail.com

Between June 14 and June 23, 2011, a delegation of 11 scholars, activists, and artists visited occupied Palestine. As indigenous and women of color feminists involved in multiple social justice struggles, we sought to affirm our association with the growing international movement for a free Palestine. We wanted to see for ourselves the conditions under which Palestinian people live and struggle against what we can now confidently name as the Israeli project of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Each and every one of us—including those members of our delegation who grew up in the Jim Crow South, in apartheid South Africa, and on Indian reservations in the U.S.—was shocked by what we saw. In this statement we describe some of our experiences and issue an urgent call to others who share our commitment to racial justice, equality, and freedom.

During our short stay in Palestine, we met with academics, students, youth, leaders of civic organizations, elected officials, trade unionists, political leaders, artists, and civil society activists, as well as residents of refugee camps and villages that have been recently attacked by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Everyone we encountered—in Nablus, Awarta, Balata, Jerusalem, Hebron, Dheisheh, Bethlehem, Birzeit, Ramallah, Um el-Fahem, and Haifa—asked us to tell the truth about life under occupation and about their unwavering commitment to a free Palestine. We were deeply impressed by people’s insistence on the linkages between the movement for a free Palestine and struggles for justice throughout the world; as Martin Luther King, Jr. insisted throughout his life, “Justice is indivisible. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

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D.C.: American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Pop Music

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Just wanted to let you know that  American Sabor:  Latinos in U.S. Pop Music exhibit at the Smithsonian will be opening next week.  East Los Chicana  feminist punk represents! If you are near D.C. we hope you get to see the exhibit –it will be up through Oct. Click below for more info. https://www.washington.edu/news/articles/uw-curated-2018american-sabor2019-music-exhibit-heads-to-the-smithsonian https://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/American-Sabor-Latinos-in-US-Popular-Music-4516 … Read more

MALCS Special Gathering: A Report Back

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We’ve just posted to the main website the second installment of “News From the Exec” (under Leadership).   The first few paragraphs are below, or click on the title to read the full report: A MALCS Special Gathering: A Report from the Executive Committee” Introduction and Overview In the April of 2010, Governor Jan Brewer … Read more

News from the Executive Committee

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Dear MALCistas, In the coming weeks before our 2011 Institute, our website will feature a new section “News from the Exec” The MALCS Special Gathering launched an assessment of our organization that would address how we, as a national body, bridge all aspects of our work. The Special Gathering called for exploring new and existing … Read more

MALCS Summer Housing deadline is July 12

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Dear Conference Presenters and Attendees, This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for reserving on campus housing, or for reserving hotel rooms at either the Courtyard Marriott or the San Gabriel Hilton, is July 12.  After this time it may be very difficult to reserve housing in any of these three sites. I encourage … Read more