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# Calling all students and community to PYFC
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/calling-all-students-and-community-to-pyfc/
- Published: 2017-08-24T12:00:22.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:54:24.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, briefs, city briefs, community briefs, daily press briefs, Pico, pico youth and family center, PYFC, santa monica briefs, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:31

Pico Blvd.

Raza Studies now, Xochitl LA, & The Pico Youth and Family Center present a panel discussion. Raza Studies Now discusses nurturing indigenous roots on Friday, August 25 from 6 – 9 p.m. at the Pico Youth and Family Center (715 Pico).

Panelist include Lucha Arevalo - Ethnic Studies Now, Compton, Alex Sanchez - Homies Unidos, Melina Abdullah - Black Lives Matter, Pan-African Studies – CSULA, and Sean Arce - Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing.

The forum will feature a powerful panel of educators, activists and cultural leaders that will discuss the future of ethnic studies in public schools, black-brown solidarity and indigenous and spiritual connections in the struggle for social, racial, environmental and economic justice.

Panel discussion topics include implementing K-14 Raza Studies/Ethnic Studies, regenerating Chican@ Studies/departments, black and brown unities, and demographic imperatives.

PYFC invites all educators, activists, community organizers and youth workers and anyone interested in building a stronger movement to address institutionalized racism through Xicana/o and ethnic studies.

\-Submitted by PYFC