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Echo Space: Educational, Cultural, Housing, Organizing space. Arts & Activism 🌺 #autonomy 🐚#decolonization ✊🏽Community preservation 🌍.

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We’re excited to be a part of this great informative conference on Cooperatives. Please reach out so that we can work together. Link 🔗 to register in our bio or look on our stories

Nos entusiasma formar parte de esta gran conferencia informativa sobre cooperativas. Por favor, ponte en contacto con nosotros para que podamos trabajar juntos. El enlace 🔗 para registrarse está en nuestra biografía; también puedes buscarlo en nuestras historias. by @eastsidecafela

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Thank you @boyleheightsbt @kamrencita for capturing our story. Also FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
@sondelsereno
@danzaxiuhcoatllosangeles
@capoeiristas_for_change
@wocsistercollective_
@mercadodelpueblocoop
@elserenofridge
@qyouthfdn
@reclaiminghomes
@mas4la

#Repost @boyleheightsbt with @use.repost
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Eastside Café (@eastsidecafela) is not a literal cafe, but a collective and community-driven hub for social change.

Since 2002, it has served as a place for cultural preservation through art, from son jarocho to Danza Azteca, and a stronghold for resistance against housing and education inequities.

✍️: @kamrencita
📷: Andrea Curiel/Youth Reporter & @susanica
🔗 Click the link in bio to read more. by @eastsidecafela

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Join us Sunday, Nov 1st 10-6:30pm for our 25th Dia de Muertos event, This year we’re collaborating with @coyotl.macehualli and implementing educational workshops that will encourage conversations and deepen our understanding of current events to take action towards a better future . If you are interested in volunteering for this event, please DM us.

Honrando a Nuestros Ancestros puts focus on our beloved family members who died in their struggle for a better life, for fairness, land justice, tending to our Mother Earth, dignified housing, cultural worldviews, for historically accurate education, and for peace of mind. We are against past and ongoing colonial injustices that take away our land resources that have displaced millons of communities and impacted our mental health. We oppose gentrification that displaces small, mom-and-pop business and the ongoing colonization of the world! This is what our younger generations are facing. Honrado a Nuestros Ancestros will be for life, justice and against (colonial) gentrification.

Educational Workshop Schedule:
1. Call for Public Art on Gentrification 10-11am @mercadodelpueblocoop
2. Facepainting 10-4pm @mercadodelpueblocoop
3. Gentrification as the Concentration of Political Power 12-2pm @coyotl.macehualli
4.Housing and Gentrification 1 12-1pm ESC
5.Housing and Gentrification 2 1-2pm ESC
6.Loteria 4 Community Self-Determination 12-2pm @Caracol
7. Capitalist Neo-Colonial Fascist War Against
Humanity. Why ICE? Why now?
How do we prepare? 2-4pm Caracol
8. Capitalist Neo-Colonial Fascist War against Humanity. Why Palestine? Why now? 2-4pm ESC
9. Collective song writing and poetry 2-4pm MDP
10. Gentrification development: The destruction
of green spaces and eco systems 2-4pm C+M
11. Procession: March from Coyotl Macehualli
to Canyon Coffee. Rally to Canyon Coffee 4:30 Gather 5-6pm March C+M”

Eastside Cafe: 5469 Huntington Dr. N 90032
Coyoltl Macehualli: 3347 N. Eastern Ave. 90032

Repujando Flyer: @chicxsucia by @eastsidecafela

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SAVE THE DATE Sunday, Nov 1st 10-6:30pm
Honrando a Nuestros Ancestros puts focus on our beloved family members who died in their struggle for a better life, for fairness, land justice, tending to our Mother Earth,
dignified housing, cultural worldviews, for historically accurate education, and for peace of mind. We are against past and
ongoing colonial injustices that take away our land resources that have displaced millons of communities and impacted our mental health. We oppose
gentrification that displaces small, mom-and-pop business and the ongoing colonization of the world! This is what our younger generations are facing. Honrado a Nuestros Ancestros will
be for life, justice and against (colonial) gentrification.

SAVE THE DATE Sunday Nov 1st 10am-6:30pm This year we collaborating with @coyotl.macehualli and implementing educational workshops that will encourage conversations that deepen our
understanding of our current events to take action towards a better future . If you are interested in volunteering for this event, we especially
need help with face painting and bringing food, fruit, and drinks. by @eastsidecafela

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Two years ago, some members of our network met agroecologist Saad Dagher, who spoke with us about his seed saving project and the power of food sovereignty in liberation. (Swipe to see clips of his talk!) Recently, he was elected mayor of his village. As mayor, he started initiatives that further strengthen local food sovereignty, which you can read more about on the donation page. However, the projects are hampered due to lack of resources. And so, in the spirit of international solidarity that originally brought us together, we offered to start this fundraiser.

We see this small effort as a protest against the millions of our taxdollars that go towards the destruction of life in P@le$tine. Any amount is appreciated! Link to donate in bio❤️‍🔥 by @eastsidecafela

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UPDATE: Zoom option now available. See Linktree in my bio.

I am fortunate to be hosted by Eastside Café LA @eastsidecafela on Sunday October 11, from 4pm to 6pm, for a community conversation and book signing for my book, Huey P. Newton: I am We. Andrew Culp @acculp from the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, will join me in conversation and there will be light refreshments.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87828936597

#blackpantherparty #intercommunalism #hueypnewton #bpp60 #communityfirst taken in Eastside Café by @eastsidecafela

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Join us in this community gathering to celebrate the Fall equinox, slow down, recenter, witness and honor ourselves and the collective.

💜Oct 5th, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
💜No registration is needed to show up
💜Donation based $5-20
💜BIWOC healing space
💜No one turned away for lack of funds

Items to bring:
💜Yoga Mat or blanket to sit on
💜Open mind & open heart

About Circle:

Women’s Circle is a BIWOC healing space. Circle pulls from indigenous methods of communication and principles of focusing on understanding and staying present. The purpose of circle, also known as council, is to practice empathetic listening skills and build supportive relationships with other women while addressing issues related to our community.

Women’s Circle is open and builds community and solidarity among BIPOC trans women and gender non-binary people. We create a safe space for our two spirit/ 🏳️‍🌈 siblings and relatives. ✨🫶🏽🦋 by @eastsidecafela

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We are here,
To see you,
To hear you,

Con las yerbitas,
Manos de abuelas,
Rezamos por ti -
La aguita limpia tus lagrimas,
El copal abraza tus palabras,
Sobamos tus heridas,

Together -
We care for your story.

🫀

We invite you to our seasonal “Clínica De Sanción” at The Caracol (Space is next to ESC) October 11th from 10am-3pm.
Directions: 5469 Huntington Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90032

An RSVP isn’t required for this gathering, but it is a first come-first serve offering. Therefore, we recommend folxs plan accordingly & arrive early.
These offerings are exchanged at a lower- sliding scale, to be accessible to community.
Limpias/Sobadas/Cupping/Cerradas - ($45-75 each)
Readings - ($20-35)
Acupuncture (Depends on Pract.)
Vendors will have their own prices.

Te vemos ahi! 🦋 taken in Los Angeles, California by @eastsidecafela

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Register for talleres with @jarochelo starting in October!!! by @eastsidecafela

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On Thursday of last week, dozens filed inside Coyotl + Macehualli Lending Library. The gentrification of El Sereno was on everyone’s mind.

“I experienced how racist and corrupt the local and state government is,” said co-founder Brenda Contreras, who helped raise money to purchase the land and return it to the Tongva people. She said she started the space as a way to share what worked and didn’t so people would feel less intimidated to speak up.

Ever since L.A. Material broke news that Beverly Hills-based real estate developer Langdon Street Capital, which purchased Grand Central Market in 2017, snatched up six parcels of land on Huntington Drive in El Sereno and rented a space to Canyon Coffee, the community has been in uproar.

The social media commentary is split. Some residents say they’d rather have new businesses than vacant storefronts while others want to keep out developers to avoid rapidly gentrifying like Highland Park. Most want less homeless encampments and cleaner streets, but there’s a misconception that gentrification helps these issues.

Guest speaker Fernanda Sanchez, who wrote her college thesis on the accelerated gentrification of Highland Park, said “gentrification is often disguised as revitalization, but it’s a violent form of erasure that leads to more homelessness.”

To learn more, read the full story by Kamren Curiel via the link in our bio or at LAPublicPress.org. by @eastsidecafela

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We are honored to host our sister @luciaecheri @eastsidecafela for this beautiful offering. Please follow and sign up on @luciaecheri page link in bio 💜🪶💫
Repost from @luciaecheri
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Mexican Traditional Medicine is not a single, frozen system from the past.

It is diverse, regional, historical, and alive. It has changed through generations of Indigenous knowledge, community practice, migration, colonization, exchange, adaptation, and resistance.

I don’t share this to create more rules around who is “allowed” to learn. I share it because I believe we can approach this knowledge with more curiosity, care, and depth.

We can learn the techniques and learn the worlds of knowledge around them.

We can ask where a practice comes from, how it has changed, who has carried it, what it means within a particular community, and what our responsibility becomes when we learn it.

Especially when we teach, practice professionally, or build businesses around traditional knowledge, context matters.

For me, keeping this knowledge alive doesn’t mean freezing it in the past. It means continuing to practice, study, question, document, teach, adapt, and transmit it with care—while remembering the communities and relationships that made its continuity possible.

There is so much for us to learn, and so much to remember.

This is the spirit I’m bringing into my upcoming workshops: not simply learning how to do a technique, but understanding enough of the medicine around it to practice with greater knowledge, respect, and intention.

#mexicantradition
#purepecha
#rebozo
#doula
#indigenous by @eastsidecafela

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