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TONANTZIN RISING: V-DAY REVOLUTION

United States > El Paso > Cafe Mayapan, 2000 Texas Ave, El Paso, TX 79901 > 2016-02-13 > 11:00 am

About The Event

V-Day Brunch w/ traditional indigenous-mexican cuisine Featured: Opening Prayer/Danza by: Danza Azteca Omecoatl Music by: Christina Gurrola & Hope Riot Poetry by: Celia Aguilar & Tiffany Devez Writing Workshop by: Author/Poet: Dolores Donates Women's Workshop & Book Signing by: Author: Martha Galeana Shop Fair Trade Products: Lummetik, a collective of indigenous women artisans

About The Organization

La Mujer Obrera

La Mujer Obrera is a local independent organization dedicated to creating communities defined by women. Our organization was founded in 1981 by women who were both garment workers and Chicana activists. Our experience showed us that as women we must implement our own ideas and strategies for our community. La Mujer Obrera has developed its organizing strategies based on the following basic human rights: employment, housing, education, nutrition, health, peace, and political liberty. Over the years, La Mujer Obrera has been one of the leaders in the struggle against an “undeclared war” on marginalized women workers of Mexican heritage.

Our mission is to develop and use our creative capacity to express the dignity and diversity of our Mexican heritage, from indigenous Mesoamerican roots to contemporary expressions, and to develop and celebrate our community through economic development, community building, community health and civic engagement.

Today La Mujer Obrera continues to challenge the perception that women are an infinite source of cheap labor and that progress means we are the ones who must sacrifice. We must see ourselves as being at the forefront of defining progress within our community. The struggle of women in the factories and resistance to NAFTA has strengthened us to create community. Our collective practice includes: cooking, raising our children, working the land, commerce, artisanry, and cultural celebrations. We need these practices to safeguard our ancestral knowledge and apply it to the present. This is our contribution as women workers in El Paso to the struggle for work, dignity, and justice. The space we are creating belongs to future generations of women and their families.

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