Monday, July 04, 2005
SWOP homepageQuetzal, B-Side Players Headline SWOP 25th Anniversary Concert
What: SouthWest Organizing Project 25th Anniversary Party
When: Friday, September 9, 2005 8:00pm-1:30am
Where: El Rey Theater, 7th & Central SW Downtown
For more info, contact:
Louis Head, Ceiba Productions Southwest 505-344-5049 or elhead@unm.edu
The SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) is a 25 year old social movement organization based in Albuquerque, New Mexico whose mission is to empower the disenfranchised in the Southwest to realize racial and gender equality, and social and economic justice.
SWOP is a multi-generational membership organization led and staffed primarily by people of color, and has been on the forefront of struggles for social, racial, economic and environmental justice in New Mexico since its founding. SWOP relates its work in working class communities of color in New Mexico to broader regional efforts in the southwestern US and northern Mexico via its participation in the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice.
SWOP is also a founder and Steering Committee member of Grassroots Global Justice, which connects grassroots and labor social movement organizations in the US with the World Social Forum and the international movement.
After 25 years of hard work and big time community victories in New Mexico, it’s time for a pachanga featuring Quetzal and the B-Side Players as fitting accomplices in SWOP’s celebration. The event’s afterparty will feature young DJs, poetry slammers, multi-media artists and other local talent on the small stage of the Golden West Saloon, adjacent to El Rey Theater.
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