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 week at CooperAcción Santa Ana, a cooperative business development program, we learned that the origin of the word [...]
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 am a small town girl. I was born and raised in the Coachella Valley, a rural desert community located in southern [...]
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 space as well as a place for community. We were welcomed here by community members for the duration of our stay. [...]
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 to the Menominee Nation’s reservation, I had the honor to stay on the reservation as a guest who traveled with others from [...]
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 able to attend the encuentro between Santa Ana and the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin. I never imagined how life-changing the experience would [...]
CRECE: 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, at the time the group that ran la granjita was not yet called CRECE. I was an intern helping [...]
Escondido: 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 size in terms of total population. It’s a predominantly working-class Latinx city, with very little to no political [...]
2018-19 Community Resilience 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 Irvine and a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow. She graduated from UC Berkeley with Honors and received her [...]
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 diverse backgrounds came together to share their experience as well as better understand the interrelation between community resilience and sustainability. A cohort of [...]
A 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, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME) went on strike from Monday, May 7, through [...]