Workshop this Sunday
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Amy Price
Jan 11, 2012, 11:39:22 AM1/11/12
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What better way could there be to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday than to spend it sharpening your activist skills?
Join Occupy Houston for the 3rd installment in its community organizing series: Local and International Perspectives on Organizing for Social Justice
Where: The Stag's Head Pub, 2128 Portsmouth Street Houston, TX
When: 5:30 this Sunday, Jan 15
Presenters: Maria Jiminez and Francisco "Pancho" Argüelles Paz y Puente
Maria Jiminez is the Special Projects Coordinator for CRECEN/America Para Todos. An international organizer with experience in the United States and Mexico, Jiminez is also a local who graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston in 1974. Today, her efforts are focused on developing programs for immigrant workers, providing concrete support to immigrant workers fight for social justice, and voicing immigrant rights concerns in community and political processes already at work locally, nationally and internationally for social justice and change.
Francisco “Pancho” Argüelles Paz y Puente has organized in Mexico, Guatemala, and has worked in the U.S. since 1997. A Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award winner, Pancho made great strides for Houston in 2006 when he co-founded the Houston Interfaith Workers Justice. Today, he acts as a co-director for Colectivo Flatlander providing capacity building services and technical assistance to social and racial justice organizations around the country.
Join Occupy Houston for the 3rd installment in its community organizing series: Local and International Perspectives on Organizing for Social Justice
Where: The Stag's Head Pub, 2128 Portsmouth Street Houston, TX
When: 5:30 this Sunday, Jan 15
Presenters: Maria Jiminez and Francisco "Pancho" Argüelles Paz y Puente
Maria Jiminez is the Special Projects Coordinator for CRECEN/America Para Todos. An international organizer with experience in the United States and Mexico, Jiminez is also a local who graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston in 1974. Today, her efforts are focused on developing programs for immigrant workers, providing concrete support to immigrant workers fight for social justice, and voicing immigrant rights concerns in community and political processes already at work locally, nationally and internationally for social justice and change.
Francisco “Pancho” Argüelles Paz y Puente has organized in Mexico, Guatemala, and has worked in the U.S. since 1997. A Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award winner, Pancho made great strides for Houston in 2006 when he co-founded the Houston Interfaith Workers Justice. Today, he acts as a co-director for Colectivo Flatlander providing capacity building services and technical assistance to social and racial justice organizations around the country.
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