MEChA de San Pancho

MEChxA's Statement of Solidarity for GUPS:

We, MEChXA de San Pancho, stand in solidarity with our fellow comrades, the General Union of Palestine Students, Dr. Abdulhadi, the AMED studies program and all other peoples involved in struggles for self-determination and liberation of their ancestral land.

San Francisco State University continues to ignore the safety and well-being of Palestinian students, faculty, and allies. The university’s administration has not condemned racism and Zionism or apologized for openly inviting violence/hatred to our campus. The university has reflected their opposition of the livelihood of an oppressed people living under military occupation by remaining complicit to Zionist interests and perpetuating the normalization of ethnic cleansing/genocide with their decision to recognize “Israel Independence Day” as a religious holiday that is now listed under SFSU’s religious observances. In a faculty-wide email, “Israel Independence Day” is included on a list of recognized religious holidays to inform staff on what days students can request absences on a religious basis. “Israel Independence Day” is the only Independence Day is recognized as a campus holiday, nonetheless as a religious one. While this date has been legitimized by administration as a religious “holiday,” there are several actual religious dates not included in the email, including Ramadan and Eid al Fitr.

“Israel Independence Day” is the anniversary of the Nakba, meaning “catastrophe,” a historic event that lead to the death and displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with the sole purpose of reinforcing a colonial state in Palestine. For that reason, to celebrate this day is to celebrate the ethnic cleansing of Arab people and the establishment of a settler-colonial state. The university has again failed to protect Arab and Palestinian students on campus by assigning validity to “Israel Independence Day,” along with the military occupation and seizure of land that came with it, and failing to acknowledge the symbolic violence caused to our students by overwriting the anniversary of Nakba as a “holiday.” Doing so underscores the university’s lack of commitment and care for the well-being of Palestinians on campus.

We call on the SFSU administration to immediately retract recognizing “Israel Independence Day” as a religious holiday. If you are outraged that SFSU is choosing to consider a day that marks violence, colonization and ethnic cleansing religious holiday, let the people responsible for this know by calling or emailing them right now.

President Wong
Telephone: (415) 338-1381
Email: [email protected]
Provost Summit
Telephone: (415) 338-1141
Email: [email protected]
University Counsel Dan Ojeda:
Telephone: (415) 338-2998
Email: [email protected]
Interim Dean Amy Sueyoshi:
Telephone: (415) 338-1693
Email: [email protected]

It’s THOTober spooky sisters! You know what that means! It’s time for our 2nd annual Halloweenie! As per usual, no racism, no sexism, no homophobia, no transphobia, no BU****IT. Remember this is a FUNdraiser, don’t be an as***le and make sure to have some spooky fun! Costumes are encouraged 🎃🦇☠️👽🤖👻👹🤡

We’re having our open house THIS THURSDAY 10/11 from 6-8 in the Richard Oakes Multicultural Center! Come thru to get to know what MEChXA de San Pancho is about and get to know our members! There’ll be FREE FOOD!

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Hey comrades, we are going to have our first general body meeting on Monday, Feb. 19th at 11AM in CCSC T-117.
See yall there

Good evening folks, I hope your semester is going by smoothly. We apologize for the late start this semester but hopefully we will get things up and running. Y'all should have gotten an email regarding general body meetings but if you didn't receive it, here's the doodle. If you would like to receive future emails, please let us know.

If you're interested in participating for the graduation committee, HMU. We need halp. ☺️

Also these are time slots for this semester so disregard the actual dates on the schedule and focus on the weekday.
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Thanks fam~

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Gente!

We are changing our general body meetings to Thursday's from 12 to 2pm! Come through to T-117 on the third floor in the Cesar Chavez building and come hang, get organized and start the revolution. The first step to making change is getting involved! Hope to see y'all there! ✊🏽

Hola amigxs! Hope your Tuesday's have been sending y'all nothin but good vibes.

Tomorrow there will be a community event to discuss action done to support Professor Albdulhadi and the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students on campus. The focus will be to strategize methods and discuss goals to combat the recent hate crime against our allies that occurred last week. Come through to support, listen, learn and act! ✊🏽

Con paz y amor