Erika Gonzalez
Texas Text Book Drama-Teachers & Educators Speak Out & Fight Back
Submitted by Southern Shift on Wed, 2010-03-17 08:20 Authored by Davey D
By now everyone has heard about the big fight over text books and history curriculum here in Texas. To sum it up, there was a push to put a number of far right-wing fundamentalist conservatives on the Texas State Board of Education where standards are set every ten years or so. Many people, in particular Democrats were asleep at the wheel and lo and behold, the far right organized, packed the board 10-5 and then proceeded to dismantle current standards by removing historical figures like Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall and many other heroes and sheroes of Black and Brown people and replaced them with conservative folks like Jerry Falwell and Newt Gingrich. It’s just now many of us are reporting on this, but according to activists and educators on the ground here in Texas, this has been brewing for a very long time...
Gentrification in East Austin - 16 Year Old Young Scholar Gabriel Padilla Does a 3 Part Documentary
Submitted by Southern Shift on Mon, 2010-01-11 14:27 Authored by Davey DA couple of months ago Detroit rap artist and activist Invincible touched down in Austin and San Antonio to share her musical talents and weigh in on an issue many in the community had been grappling with - Gentrification. Invincible noted that poor people being displaced from their neighborhood by more af fluent residents was a huge deal in Detroit, so much so that she and her partner Finale did a song about it and accompanied it with a mini-documentary called Locust.
The Power of Tejano Music: Home Grown and Full of Soul
Submitted by Southern Shift on Fri, 2009-11-20 12:09 Authored by Erika Gonzalez“Texas” comes from the Hasinai word táysha, meaning “friend.” The Hasinai Confederation is part of the Caddo Nation Native American tribe from East Texas. The Caddo were one of the hundreds of different tribes that first inhabited the Texas – Mexico region.
Women Stand Strong and Push for Change in Texas
Submitted by Southern Shift on Thu, 2009-08-27 09:51 Authored by Erika GonzalezTexas is home to a rich history of resistance in the belly of the beast. As a “Red State”, self proclaimed by many Republican officials who continuously try to push their conservative agendas, it is no wonder why we hardly ever hear about the positive community work being done on the ground to shift Texas politics.
At the forefront of the grassroots social justice movement in Texas, are many women of color whose sacrifices have led them to be well known community activists, often unnoticed in the larger public eye.
