Movimiento Estudiantil X/Chicanx de Aztlán - MEChA de Fresno State

At this years Chicanx Youth Conference M.E.Ch.A’s workshop was “Embracing your history to embrace your future:How to get involved in your community.” The workshop is dedicated to educating students about the history of Chicanos on Fresno State Campus. By looking through the lens of past students they can then enable themselves to get involved within their community and embrace their history through various activities and events that they will be able to participate and organize back on their campus. Each workshop had students from all over the Central Valley participate in a group activity that allowed student to create an event that represented their community. Students, then we’re allowed to take home their idea of what they would like to see within their community are on the campus and present it to the very own school to see if they would be able to hold the event they created.

That’s a WRAP on the 50th anniversary of the Chicanx Youth Conference 🎉🎉🎉Thank you to all who showed up and helped out at the conference can’t wait to see more of you next year✊🏼

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Our Latin American Trivia Night is on Sunday @ 5:00 PM!!! Please join our student organizations for a fun night of cultural exchange and prizes such as DoorDash and Starbucks gift cards! Link in bio.

Zoom link will be in bio soon! Please join us as we plan some events for the spring semester. As always, we are welcoming new members.

We'd like to invite you to Fresno State's 48th annual Chicanx Youth Conference! It's two two days, entirely on Zoom and free. It is next Friday and Saturday. We will be hosting a workshop concerning digital youth activism during COVID-19. Link in bio to register.

Today, we finish our series of digital altars remembering victims of systemic racism and bigotry. We would like all our followers to remember George Floyd. We call on the Mexican-American communities across the US to continue to be invested in the Black Lives Matter movement and value and respect the Black lives in our community. Please see this statement from the National NAACP and consider a donation to them: For too long, law enforcement and the criminal justice system at large has racially profiled, arrested, convicted, and sentenced African Americans more harshly than the rest of America. As George Floyd’s killing tragically demonstrates, any interaction between an African American and law enforcement can instantaneously become deadly. We will not rest until all the officers involved in these incidents are arrested, charged and convicted. We must ensure that justice is served in each and every case.

The nation’s collective condemnation of police violence against the Black community represents a watershed moment. This is the time for systemic changes to policing in this country. We need federal, state, and local reforms which impose strict police accountability, limit the use of force, eliminate racial profiling, de-militarize law enforcement, track and report data, and ensure proper screening, education and training of all officers. Local law enforcement agencies receive federal funding and must be made to comply with federal civil rights laws.

Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP: “Enough is enough. The entire country has reached its limit in terms of deadly police practices. We cannot allow one more Black person to die at the hands of government. Our campaign is aimed at eliminating racial disparities that are harming our communities and taking our lives. Nowhere is there more systemic injustice than in law enforcement’s treatment of the Black community it is charged with guarding and protecting. We must seize this moment to eliminate racism from policing and to hold every officer accountable for his or her actions.”

Today's altar. Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old unarmed African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky apartment on March 13, 2020, when white plainclothes officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) forced entry into the apartment as part of an investigation into drug dealing operations. Kenneth Walker, Taylor’s boyfriend, was in the apartment with Breonna Taylor when the officers knocked on the door and then forced entry. Officers said that they announced themselves as police before forcing entry, but Walker said he did not hear any announcement, thought the officers were intruders, and fired a warning shot at them. According to officials, it hit Mattingly in the leg, and the officers fired 32 shots in return. Walker was not hit by any of the gun shots, but Taylor was hit 6 times and died. On September 23, a state grand jury indicted Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment for endangering Taylor's neighbors with his shots. Before her death, Breonna Taylor worked for University of Louisville Health as a full-time ER technician and was a former emergency medical technician. It was in her nature to take care of people. She regularly spent time with her family and her favorite games were Phase 10 and Skip-Bo. She was known as “Bre.” Her aunt called her “Mini Me” and her uncle called her “Breezy.” She was good at frying chicken, she loved listening to Kevin Gates, and her favorite colors were blue and purple. Taylor always said that she would be a legend; she was right when she said we would all remember her. Breonna Taylor was marginalized once for being Black and once again for being a woman. Even in a country such as ours that prides itself on progress made since its white male dominated inception, the lives of women and minorities are still pushed to the edges and are therefore undervalued. The fact that no charges were placed on the officers for Taylor’s death highlights the systemic racism and oppression of Black people through the American policing system and other systems of oppression that still persist in America. Continued in comments.

Today, we will begin our celebration of Día de los Mu***os with our series of digital altars concerning victims of systemic oppression. Felycya Harris was an interior designer who was murdered this month in Augusta, GA. Harris was the 31st Trans/non-binary murder victim of this year in the US.
See the Human Rights Campaign’s message concerning Harris, “The Human Rights Campaign is mourning the death of Felycya Harris, a transgender woman who was shot and killed in Meadowbrook Park in Augusta, Georgia. Feylcya’s death follows the death of Michelle Michellyn Ramos Vargas, a transgender woman in Puerto Rico, who was killed with a gun just four days earlier. Felycya’s death is the fourth violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in just three weeks and is believed to be at least the 31st violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person this year in the U.S. We say “at least” because too often these deaths go unreported -- or misreported by failing to identify the victim as trans or by misgendering and misnaming the victim. The number of transgender or gender non-conforming people whom HRC has tracked as being killed so far this year has now matched 2017’s count as the highest number of violent deaths HRC has ever tracked in one year.

Felycya’s death cuts short a life full of promise. Felycya, 33, was an interior decorator and ran her own company where she enjoyed lending her eye to improve the surroundings of others, and made others feel comfortable in their own space. She said she could do “just about anything with decorating,” which she learned from her late grandmother. Friends remember her “laugh. The smile -- the smiles. The talks. The arguments. The attitudes. Everybody is going to remember who Felycya Harris is.” Based on her social media posts, she enjoyed dance, fashion and style, had a bright sense of humor and was full of life.”

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