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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT | ALFORJA NETWORK
From the Alforja Network we strongly condemn the intervention of the United States government in Venezuela.
Sanctions, economic blockade, military threats and political interference violate international law and self-determination of peoples.
Every aggression against Venezuela is also an attack against the peoples of Our America.
We reaffirm that Venezuela has the right to decide its own destiny, without guardianship or blockades.
We express our solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their popular organizations, who resist with dignity.
✊🏽 No to imperialist intervention
✊🏽 Yes to the sovereignty of the peoples

📢 PRONUNCIAMIENTO | RED ALFORJA
Desde la Red Alforja condenamos de manera firme la intervención del gobierno de Estados Unidos en Venezuela.
Las sanciones, el bloqueo económico, las amenazas militares y la injerencia política violan el derecho internacional y la autodeterminación de los pueblos.

Cada agresión contra Venezuela es también un ataque contra los pueblos de Nuestra América.

Reafirmamos que Venezuela tiene derecho a decidir su propio destino, sin tutelajes ni bloqueos.
Expresamos nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo venezolano y con sus organizaciones populares, que resisten con dignidad.
✊🏽 No a la intervención imperialista
✊🏽 Sí a la soberanía de los pueblos

"Any careful observation of the path taken by subcultures could have predicted where we were headed. In the hours after midnight, August 15, 1992, my best friend and I were driving out of Los Angeles. The Antelope Valley Freeway took us northeast towards Vasquez Rocks and the unincorporated area of Agua Dulce. It was seven years before the juggernaut of Coachella Festival set sail on a course that took Southern California popular music towards a party selling 250,000 individual tickets totaling more than $100 million dollars. But on this occasion, pumped with stimulants, we headed towards a destination we had only learned about an hour before."

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THE ACID CONJUNCTURE On Nick Angelos’ Edifice

[Español abajo]
A conversation with
Tony Carfello (LATU, Koreatown Local)
Daniela Lieja Quintanar (LATU, Union de Vecinos)
Christina Sánchez Juárez (Sacramento Valley Tenants Union)

Hosted by Alyson Escalante (LATU, Mar Vista Palms Local)
and Dont Rhine (LATU, Hollywood Local)

In June 2025, three researchers from the Ultra-red collective—Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Christina Sanchez Juarez, and Tony Carfello—traveled to Central America to conduct interviews with popular educators. All three are tenant union organizers: Daniela and Tony are members of the L.A. Tenants Union and Christina is a member of the Sacramento Valley Tenants Union. Both LATU and SVTU prioritize building popular power with a strong emphasis on popular education.

What might we learn from the history of popular education and its current praxis in Central America under conditions of increasing government right-wing repression can we learn from here in California? For this event, Daniela, Christina, and Tony will share their insights into popular education history and praxis from their time spent with movement activists in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

This event will be co-hosted by Alyson Escalante from the Red Menace podcast and Dont Rhine, chief editor of ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry. The event will be bilingual, Spanish and English.

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Una conversación con
Tony Carfello (LATU, Koreatown Local)
Daniela Lieja Quintanar (LATU, Union de Vecinos)
Christina Sánchez Juárez (Sacramento Valley Tenants Union)

Presentado por Alyson Escalante (LATU, Mar Vista Palms Local)
y Dont Rhine (LATU, Hollywood Local)

En junio de 2025, tres investigadores del colectivo Ultra-red —Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Christina Sánchez Juárez y Tony Carfello—viajaron a Centroamérica para entrevistar a educadores populares. Los tres son organizadores sindicales de inquilinos: Daniela y Tony son miembros del Sindicato de Inquilinos de Los Ángeles y Christina es miembro del Sindicato de Inquilinos del Valle de Sacramento. Tanto el LATU como el SVTU priorizan el desarrollo del poder popular, con un fuerte énfasis en la educación popular.

¿Qué podemos aprender de la historia de la educación popular y su práctica actual en Centroamérica, en un contexto de creciente represión gubernamental de derecha, desde aquí en California? En este evento, Daniela, Christina y Tony compartirán sus perspectivas sobre la historia y la práctica de la educación popular, fruto de su experiencia con activistas del movimiento en Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras.

Este evento será copresentado por Alyson Escalante, del podcast Red Menace, y Dont Rhine, editor jefe de ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry. El evento será bilingüe, español e inglés.

[Español abajo] A conversation with Tony Carfello (LATU, Koreatown Local) Daniela Lieja Quintanar (LATU, Union de Vecinos) Christina Sánchez Juárez (Sacramento Valley Tenants Union) Hosted by Alyson Escalante (LATU, Mar Vista Palms Local) and Dont Rhine (LATU, Hollywood Local) In June 2025, three researchers from the Ultra-red collective—Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Christina Sanchez Juarez, and Tony Carfello—traveled to Central America to conduct interviews with popular educators. All three are tenant union organizers: Daniela and Tony are members of the L.A. Tenants Union and Christina is a member of the Sacramento Valley Tenants Union. Both LATU and SVTU prioritize building popular power with a strong emphasis on popular education. What might we learn from the history of popular education and its current praxis in Central America under conditions of increasing government right-wing repression can we learn from here in California? For this event, Daniela, Christina, and Tony will share their insights into popular education history and praxis from their time spent with movement activists in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. This event will be co-hosted by Alyson Escalante from the Red Menace podcast and Dont Rhine, chief editor of ULTRA-RED: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry. The event will be bilingual, Spanish and English.