Mexico Solidarity Network

Fall 2016:

Cuba (16 credits): Sept 4 – Dec 2, Optiional Chicago re-entry program: Dec 5-16
App deadline: May 30

Focus on the history, culture and politics of Cuba, with special emphasis on the Cuban revolution.  Program features home stays in a working class barrio of Havana, plus visits to the Bay of Pigs, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Santa Clara, Pinar del Rio and Varadero beach.

Mexico (16 credits): Sept 3 – Dec 4, Optional Chicago re-entry program: Dec 5-16
App deadline: June 30

Focus on the theory and practice of Mexican social movements.  Six weeks in Chiapas with the Zapatista movement, four weeks in Mexico City with housing movements, and three weeks in Tlaxcala with urban and campesino movements.

Summer 2016:

Cuba (6 credits): May 22 – June 25 (App deadline: March 31)
Focus on the history, culture and politics of Cuba, with a constructively critical look at the Cuban revolution.  Program features home stays in Havana, travel to provinces, and experiential learning.

Mexico (6 credits): July 3-30 (App deadline: April 30)
Focus on the theory, practice and context of the Zapatista movement.  Program features study and living in a Zapatista cultural/political center.

Master's in Community Organizing with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and AUSM

Learn the theory and practice of community organizing from teachers and mentors who spent a life time at it. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee master's degree in community organizing is a unique collaborative partnership with the Autonomous University of Social Movements (AUSM). Based in the Centro Autónomo in Chicago, the program offers the only master degree in community organizing in the country. Students combine discussion-based academic classes with hands on experience and regular mentoring from experienced community organizers.

Classes include:

In 1992, a ragtag group of 106 caravanistas confronted some 400 federal officials at the US-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. Under the leadership of the late Rev. Lucius Walker, this was the first public challenge to the US blockade of Cuba. We were loaded with medicines, school supplies and used bicycles bound for Havana.

October 10^th, 2014

To the Sisters & Brothers of Ferguson & St. Louis, MO
To Hands Up United, Organization for Black Struggle, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, and your partners in Ferguson
To all communities struggling against state violence

The Escuelita Zapatista is a bold and inspiring project: under the guidance of thousands of indigenous women and men who have become spokespeople for Zapatismo, it invites allies from all over the world (around 7,500 so far) to come to Chiapas to live with and learn from these spokepeople and indigenous families, and create the largest, most impactful school the world has ever seen for teaching autonomy.

Un corto video sobre nuestra lucha para la vida digna!
A short video about our fight for dignified housing!
¡Que viva Casas del Pueblo!