M.E.Ch.A. de UCI’s values does not align with El Plan de Santa Barbara, the original constitution of M.E.Ch.A.
We are critical of the content and acknowledge that it is anti-black, anti-indigenous, misogynistic, etc.
Our goal at this chapter is to hold accountable and uplift the Latinx community.
cONCENTRATION ON POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL & SOCIAL ISSUES
Values
Denounce: Los Papeles, White Supremacy, Anti-Blackness, Homophobia, Transphobia, Stigma against Mental Health, Anti-Indigenous Sentiment, Violence against Womxn, Machismo, White Feminism, Ableism, Classism, Racism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Sexism, Capitalism, Cops (Abolish the Police), Prison Industrial System, Military Institution, Institutions of Power, School to Prison Pipeline, Border Patrol (ICE, Homeland Security), Colorism, And Criminalizing the Minority Youth, Criminalizing Black and non-Black POC, Fetishization of Black and non-Black POC, Criminalizing Drug Use, Cultural Appropriation, Colonization/Occupation, Sexual Violence, Nationalism, Respectability Politics, Toxic Chicanismo, European Beauty Standards, Victim Blaming, Rape Culture, gentrification, TERF (Trans Excluding Radical Feminists), Environmental Racism/Violence, Fatphobia, Inaccessible Language, Professionalism, Academic Hierarchies, Mexican-centrism, Aztlan Movement, ,
Uplift: Sex work, Support Undocumented/Immigrant Community, Trans/Non-Binary Folx, LGBT Community, BSU @UCI, Black and non-black Womxn of Color, Labor Workers, Branch organizations and orgs that align with our values, Disabled folx and folx with mental health, victims of violence (sexual, domestic, mental, emotional), Transfer and non-traditional students, first gen students, Food accessibility, Housing accessibility, Decolonized Veganism, Decolonizing your Diet, Beauty of all bodies, Body Positivity, Self-care, Communal-cre, Radical self-love, Safe Houses, refugees and asylum seekers, Free Palestine, Sexual Health, Femme identifying, Intersectional Feminism, Central American and South American voices and experiences, Indigenous communities, acknowledge black latinx, Decolonization, Unlearn internalized, Decolonize Linguistics
Uplift: Sex work, Support Undocumented/Immigrant Community, Trans/Non-Binary Folx, LGBT Community, BSU @UCI, Black and non-black Womxn of Color, Labor Workers, Branch organizations and orgs that align with our values, Disabled folx and folx with mental health, victims of violence (sexual, domestic, mental, emotional), Transfer and non-traditional students, first gen students, Food accessibility, Housing accessibility, Decolonized Veganism, Decolonizing your Diet, Beauty of all bodies, Body Positivity, Self-care, Communal-cre, Radical self-love, Safe Houses, refugees and asylum seekers, Free Palestine, Sexual Health, Femme identifying, Intersectional Feminism, Central American and South American voices and experiences, Indigenous communities, acknowledge black latinx, Decolonization, Unlearn internalized, Decolonize Linguistics
