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CooperAcción: A Curriculum on Co-ops
By Ambereen Siddiqui, October 30, 2019. What comes to mind when you hear the word “economy”? I cycle between corruption, exploitation, and can we actually eat the rich? However, last…
Read MoreFriends of the Earth
From Small Town Girl to Big Green and Back Again Photo taken during a team building exercise during SISL 2016. By Esmeralda Hic, September 17, 2019. By every definition, I…
Read MoreEncuentro: The Possibility of Togetherness
The Possibility of Togetherness by Esmeralda Hic, September 2019 Poster hung up in the Menīkānaehkem Community Rebuilders community center within the Menominee Nation. This center is often used as an organizing…
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Encuentro 2018 The author learns how to tan a hide at the Menīkānaehkem Community Center in the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin by Emanuel Preciado, June 2019. On a trip last November…
Read MoreEncuentro 2018
Encuentro 2018 UC Irvine Students experience snow at the Menīkānaehkem farm in the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin By Karen Valladares. June 6, 2019. Last fall, I had the honor of being…
Read MoreCRECE: Community in Resistance
by Emanuel Preciado, MA, PhD student, UCI Community Resilience summer fellow, October 2018. I got involved with CRECE the summer of 2016 as an urban planning masters student at UC Irvine,…
Read MoreEscondido: Roots of a Community Planner
by Emanuel Preciado, MA, PhD student. UCI Community Resilience summer fellow. September 2018. I am from Central Escondido, California – a place with similar demographics as Central Santa Ana but half the…
Read More2018 New Student Fellows
Please join us in welcoming the 2018-19 Community Resilience Student Fellows. Navjyot (Navi) Gill Navjyot Gill is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Criminology, Law and Society department at UC…
Read MoreSISL 18: A Glimpse into the Next Generation of Sustainability Leaders
SISL 18: A Glimpse into the Next Generation of Sustainability Leaders By Isabelle and Yasmine. Sep 6, 2018. Within a weekend during summer break, incoming UCI freshman and transfer students from…
Read MoreA Student Perspective on the Strike
“¡La gente unida jamas sera vencida!” By Esmeralda Hic, UCI Student. May 29, 2018. Three days. 72 hours. UC on strike. UC Irvine workers belonging to the American Federation of State,…
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