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Greetings!
We hope that this e-newsletter finds everyone in good spirits and health. We are excited to welcome in the summer time. Inside this e-newsletter you will find information highlighting youth leadership and development programs of the Southwest Network and how you can start or continue to support the next generation of leaders as we strive to build an intergenerational movement of elders, adults, young adults, and youth working for environmental and economic justice.
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We are proud to announce the 2008 Southwest Network Summer Youth Placement Program (SYPP) participants. This year we had 19 organizations apply for the SYPP and 11 were accepted. The highest number of applications ever! The SYPP class of 2008 includes: Coalicion de Derechos Humanos (AZ), Escuela De La Raza (CA), Fuerza Unida (TX), Kalpulli Izkalli (NM), SAGE Council (NM), People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (TX), Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (CA), the Chinese Progressive Association (CA), People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (CA), Union Popular Independiente (MX), and Colectivo Juana de Arco (MX). We look forward to working with these organizations during the summer as we continue to build and nurture the next generation of leaders!
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The Youth Leadership and Development Campaign (YLD) is pleased to announce the 2008 Youth Organizing Training Institute (YOTI)"A R.O.S.E for a New |
World - Revolutionizing, Organizing, and Sustaining our Environments for a New World." This year the YOTI will take place in Oakland, California at the Center for Third World Organizing House (CTWO) from June 22nd to June 28th , 2008. The YOTI is a one week training program that brings together youth of color from all over the southwest and engages them to develop their knowledge, leadership skills and learn new organizing skills from each other. Highlights from the 2008 YOTI will include a Toxic Tour of San Francisco, a visit to Oakland's Chinatown, and a graduation celebration.
Cost to attend the YOTI is $300, which includes all food, lodging, ground transportation and materials during the YOTI. This small fee does not include travel expenses to and from the YOTI. If you are interested in attending the YOTI, please contact Michael Sarmiento by May 30th @ (310) 403-7964 or michael@sneej.org
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1.) Youth for Environmental Justice (Youth EJ), the youth component of Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is celebrating its 10 Year Anniversary! Youth EJ is committed to take action in order to transform conditions and fight complacency in predominantly low income communities of color by empowering youth to take a stand through consciousness raising, organizing and leadership development. We hope that you can join us on June 13th to learn more about and support the exciting work of Youth EJ in South East Los Angeles. The event will take place at the Farmlab near downtown LA. Sponsorship and ad opportunities are available. Please save the date. For more information please contact Communities for a Better Environment at (323) 826-9771 ext. 115.
2.) Get involved in Southern border issues - support the southern Indigenous border communities in bringing attention to Indigenous human rights violations, border rights violations and environmental injustice of indigenous border lands!! Write your opposition to the border wall! Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras www.indiegnasinfronteras.org
3.) The Migrant Trail: We Walk for Life, May 26- June1, 2008. Join us for the fifth annual 75-mile journey from Sásabe, Sonora to Tucson, Arizona in solidarity with our migrant sisters and brothers who have walked this trail and lost their lives. We bear witness to the lives that are lost, the families who mourn, and the communities that suffer the divisions that borders wreak on all of us. Monday, May 26th, 2:00pm: Sásabe, Sonora: Join us for the sending forth ceremony and the 5 mile walk to our first campsite on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge Sunday, June 1st, 11:30am: Tucson, Arizona: Join us for the welcoming celebration as participants complete the 75-mile journey, bearing witness to the gauntlet of death that has claimed more than 5,000 men, women and children on the U.S.-México border. Online Registration has begun! Visit http://www.derechoshumanosaz.net to register
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1.) Raising Change: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference. July 25 -26, 2008 in San Francisco, CA.
Learn and share how fundraising can help us put our social justice values out front rather than hold us back!
For more information: www.grassrootsfundraising.org. If you have questions: conferernce08@grassrootsfundraising.org or 510-452-4520 ext. 320.
2.) SAVE THE DATE: This year's SPIN Academy will take place August 13-17 in Petaluma, CA. This will be the Academy's 10th anniversary, and we couldn't be more excited! We'll celebrate the milestone by providing some of the best communications trainings that SPIN has developed over the years. The SPIN Academy is a terrific opportunity to expand your organization's communications capacity as well as network, share, learn and have some fun. Applications will be available online in mid-May. The cost of the event is $2500 per participant. However, with the generous support from our foundation sponsors, we have seats available at $200-$400, on a sliding scale based on organizational budget. For more information, please visit http:// www.spinproject.org/SPINAcademy
3.) EPA Environmental Justice Small Grant Closes June 30th. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA- OECA-OEJ-08-01 Closing Date for Applications: June 30, 2008 The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) established the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (EJSG) in fiscal year (FY) 1994. The purpose of this grant program is to support and empower communities that are working on local solutions to local environmental and/or public health issues. The EJSG Program is designed to assist recipients in building collaborative partnerships that will help them understand and address the environmental and/or public health issues in their communities. Successful collaborative partnerships with other stakeholders involve well-designed strategic plans to build, maintain and sustain the partnerships, and to work towards addressing the local environmental and/or public health issues. Details at http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/ grants/ej-smgrants.html
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The Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (Southwest Network) is a network of people of color, multi-issue, regional, bi-national organization comprising 60 grassroots community- based, native, labor, youth groups and organizations working for environmental and economic justice in the southwest and western U.S. and northern Mexico. The Southwest Network was established in 1990 as a vehicle for regional and national empowerment created by and for grassroots organizations led by people of color, Native/Indigenous, and working class communities.
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