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Mexican Students de Aztlán at UIC

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Just a couple of Chicane students trying to change the world—lento, pero avanzamos🌱

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MeSA 101 Crash Course !!! 🤍🇲🇽

Learn about who we are, what we do, our committees and how to get involved! We hope to see you soon !!! 🙈🤍 by @mesaatuic

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Hola a todos! ☀️😸🌝

We would love to formally announce that our general body meetings will be held on a weekly basis on Mondays from 2-3 PM @ the Latino Cultural Center (LCC) !🤎

Feel free to join us to make new friends, learn about our committees, and get involved in our sanctuary campus campaign! 📢🔥👯

Invite your friends or come solo, everyone is welcome! 😼 We hope to see you there! <333 taken in UIC Latino Cultural Center by @mesaatuic

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🦋💀🏵️🕯️🧡UIC LCC 2026...Dia de los Muertos: Honoring Lives Taken by ICE Violence 💀🦋💀🏵️🕯️🧡

🌼 Presented by the UIC Latino Cultural Center 🌼

All events will be held in-person at the UIC Latino Cultural Center (LCBC2).

🦋Communal Altar Installation & Create-Your-Own Ofrenda, Monday, October 26th, 1pm to 3pm

🎤Live Music Performance & Ritual w/ @terciadooficial , Tuesday, October 27th, 5:30pm to 7pm

🍉@uicheritagegarden Harvest Festival: Fruits of Sanctuary, Wednesday, October 28th, 1pm to 3pm

🎙Noche de Poetas (Student Poetry Night), ft. community poet, Janne Moreno. Thursday, October 29th, 5:30pm to 7pm

🐛🕯️DDM 2026 is cosponsored by:
@undocumentedflames
@uicheritagegarden
@sanctuaryforalluic
@anakbayan_atuic
@fua.atuic
@mesaatuic
@sdsatuic
@teso_uic
@uprs.at.uic
@logicaatuic
@latinosunidos_uic
@terciadooficial

🕯️All audiences are welcome. For more information or to arrange accomodations, contact the LCC at lcc@uic.edu or call 312-996-3095.

༉‧₊˚🕯️🖤❀༉‧₊˚💀🦋💀🏵️🕯️🧡༉‧₊˚🕯️🖤❀༉‧₊˚。 taken in UIC Latino Cultural Center by @mesaatuic

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🔥 JOIN US TODAY, Wednesday October 14th at 7:30PM for a town hall on the campaign to end CPD-ICE collaboration at Casa Michoacán!

Since Operation Midway Blitz, we have seen collaboration on our streets in direct violation of the Welcoming City Ordinance, as federal immigration enforcement neighbors terrorize our immigrant communities. The people have stood up and fought back, mobilizing to CCPSA meetings month after month to demand accountability and transparency now!

Join us for a panel and discussion on next steps! We hope to see you there!

When: Wednesday, October 14th, 7:30PM
Where: Casa Michoacán, 1638 S Blue Island Ave

CPD, KKK, I-C-E THEY'RE ALL THE SAME! LA MIGRA, LA POLICÍA, ¡LA MISMA PORQUERÍA! taken in Chicago, Illinois by @mesaatuic

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🔥🌈🐛🦋 UIC QUEER KICKBACK 🔥🌈🐛🦋

📆When: Thursday, October 15th, 2026
⏰Time: 5PM-7PM
📍Where: UIC Gender & Sexuality Center (GSC), Behavioral Sciences Building 181 & 183

🌈Queer and BIPOC? We want you!

🔥Hang out with other QTPOC UIC Students, build community, and decompress! There will be loteria, small prizes, and more!

This program is centered around the GSC's year theme of Queer and Trans Latine Liberation, in honor of the LCC's 50th Anniversary.

🫂 This program is open to all. The GSC is wheelchair accessible.

🌈 This student-led program is organized by UIC Latino Cultural Center (LCC) Student Interns and UIC Gender & Sexuality Center (GSC) Student Workers.
Co-sponsored by @mesaatuic Sin Binarios Committee. This program is student-led. taken in UIC Gender and Sexuality Center by @mesaatuic

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Join us 2 weeks from tomorrow for our trip to The National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen! We want our mesitas to experience the beautiful culture and creativity of this FREE community museum. We will be traveling together by bus (fare not included) from UIC on Friday, October 23rd at 1:15pm :) see you then ! by @mesaatuic

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As one of our Hispanic Heritage Month events, MeSa would like you to help us uplift the voices of our queer latin@/e community. On Monday, October 5th at 2pm in the LCC, we will be filming short coming out stories to include in a video montage which will release on October 11th in honor of National Coming Out day. Queer individuals have always formed an important part of latin@/e history and we intend to make sure everyone knows that the complexity of intersecting identities is not an experience you are alone in 💞
This event is open to all! Share your story or share your support, either way we would love to see you there!
Feel free to scan the QR code to submit an anonymous statement to be read in our video should you not feel comfortable to participate ! by @mesaatuic

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🔥🌈🐛🦋 UIC QUEER KICKBACK 🔥🌈🐛🦋

📆When: Thursday, October 15th, 2026
⏰Time: 5PM-7PM
📍Where: UIC Gender & Sexuality Center (GSC), Behavioral Sciences Building 181 & 183

🌈Queer and BIPOC? We want you!

🔥Hang out with other QTPOC UIC Students, build community, and decompress! There will be loteria, small prizes, and more!

This program is centered around the GSC's year theme of Queer and Trans Latine Liberation, in honor of the LCC's 50th Anniversary.

🫂 This program is open to all. The GSC is wheelchair accessible.

🌈 This student-led program is organized by UIC Latino Cultural Center (LCC) Student Interns and UIC Gender & Sexuality Center (GSC) Student Workers.
Co-sponsored by @mesaatuic Sin Binarios Committee.
This program is student-led. taken in UIC Gender and Sexuality Center by @mesaatuic

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Mexican Students of Aztlan condemns the UIC administration and the Chancellor Directive for refusing to remove U.S. Customs and Border Patrol from being present in a career fair hosted by the College of Business. UIC has shown us they aren’t willing to protect students from state violence such as CBP or ICE. No matter what sector within CBP was invited, the essence of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has been the brutalization and surveillance of immigrants.
All our students deserve to feel safe at UIC no matter what. Stay connected with us as we continue with our demand for a true sanctuary campus at UIC for ALL. ✊🏽‼️

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ‼️
SANCTUARY CAMPUS NOW ‼️ by @mesaatuic

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Chicago, IL – On Wednesday, September 23, hundreds of people gathered at the Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center (LCC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the cultural center. Founded on September 19, 1976, the LCC was the first cultural center at UIC and was named after a Puerto Rican professor, Rafael Cintrón Ortiz, who supported the just struggles of the student activists in the 1970s.

Just a few hours before the event began, Mexican Students de Aztlán (MeSA) led hundreds of students in successfully preventing the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol from attending a career fair hosted by UIC. Student activists, university faculty and staff, and community members filled the LCC. People socialized and shared food, listened to speeches from professors, alumni and cultural center staff, and ended the night by dancing to music by Chicago DJ duo TRQPiTECA and local student band Grupo Tercero. Months of work by cultural center staff, student interns and countless others made this lively celebration possible. Attendees remarked how emotional and empowered the event made them feel, and rightfully so.

Donald Trump’s racist and reactionary administration has come down hard on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in higher education. At many universities across the country, cultural centers have been downright closed or “consolidated,” that is, effectively shut down. To make matters worse, these decisions are often made by racist campus administrators without any warning to the staff and interns at said cultural centers, leaving them jobless. Such is the situation at Louisiana State University, for instance. But it would be a mistake to believe that these attacks on DEI are limited to places like the Black Belt South or Aztlán, where the national liberation struggles of the African-American and Chicano peoples for self-determination are respectively rooted.

...Read more on fightbacknews.org by @mesaatuic

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Chicago IL – Over 150 students, faculty and community mobilized at the University of Illinois at Chicago Quad on Wednesday, September 23, to protest the UIC administration for inviting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to recruit at the Business Career Fair and to demand that UIC declare itself a sanctuary campus.

The protest, organized by Mexican Students de Aztlán (MeSA) with the support of multiple campus organizations, forced CBP to quietly withdraw from the event.

The action came after students received Handshake (a university jobs board) notifications inviting them to meet with border patrol recruiters at the career fair.

MeSA issued a call for the UIC community to demand that Chancellor Marie Lynn Miranda, the UIC administration and the College of Business revoke the invitation and make a public statement to the community. Within hours, the administration shut down phone lines as students, staff and community members flooded the chancellor's office with calls and emails. CBP announced it would not attend, but the administration refused to formally revoke the invitation.

MeSA speakers made it very clear that CBP's backing out from the event was a victory won by student organizing. And that the administration is at fault for it.

“The only reason those pigs aren't here right now is because of our efforts, your efforts,” said Lupe Lara Guzman, a co-lead of MeSA's ERA Committee.

Guzman continued, “Chancellor Miranda was perfectly fine with their attendance as long as they followed proper guidelines. Chancellor Miranda: was CBP following proper guidelines when they murdered Silverio Villegas González last September? Or when they abducted two women off of our campus last October? Have they been following proper guidelines as they continue to terrorize our communities every single day? You cannot hide behind protocol, Chancellor Miranda. Your neutrality and silence is complicity. More than that, it is disgusting, morally abhorrent, and shameful.”

...Read more on fightbacknews.org by @mesaatuic

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