Gretel Rodriguez for NEA Director

06/18/2024

140.4K likes, 2294 comments. “New Immigration rules to go into effect today.”

03/27/2023

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With grace and compassion moving forward.     Dearest State Council Delegates, I want to send the warmest congratulations to Irene Amezcua for running a great campaign. I am confident you are up for t

03/23/2023

Endorsement announcement!

03/04/2023

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Zoom Candidate Meet and Greet! Saturday Mar. 4th 5 pm to 7 pm     Zoom Meet and Greet!   Saturday March 4th 5 pm to 7 pm Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 328 304 5280 Passcode: gretel I am excited to mee

02/28/2023

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Campaign Announcement!     Announcement!   Proud to announce that l am running for NEA Director District 10! The youngest of six siblings and the first to go to college in my family. Earning a degree

02/27/2023

Political fieldwork within the union and in the community!

01/28/2023

On this day, 26 January 1944, Angela Yvonne Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. A communist, civil rights organiser and the third woman to feature on the FBI's most wanted list, for a time Davis was also closely associated with the Black Panther Party.
Davis worked at University of California, Los Angeles until being fired for her political views on the orders of governor Ronald Reagan. Soon after, Davis was arrested following the Marin county courthouse incident on bogus charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy of which she was later all acquitted at trial.
Davis has also been a consistent advocate of feminism which takes into account factors like race, class, capitalism and transgender rights, and highlights the vital historical contributions of Black women: "When we speak of feminism in this country, there almost always is the tendency to assume that this is something that was created by white women… Women like Ida B. Wells, women like Mary Church Terrell, women like Anna Julia Cooper, are responsible for the feminist approach today that we generally call intersectionality… What I want to argue is for a feminist perspective that understands that we cannot simply reform institutions like prison and the police, because they are so embedded with racism and violence that, if we're ever going to extricate ourselves from that, we have to abolish prisons".
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01/20/2023

We need to stand up and support our Q***r community! Here is some advocacy in action at the local level. Partnering with the community grassroots advocates is crucial.

Management at the Cameron Family YMCA in Santee made the decision to close five hours early for safety reasons when they learned of those competing protests planned.

01/07/2023