NM Con Mujeres defines feminism as a lens that is used to understand the responsibilities toward the sacred system of life. We believe and are guided by the laws of mother earth – the laws of nature that have been violated to the point of destruction and degradation. Women are the stewards of our water, our land, our air, our seeds and each other.
Our chant is - It Takes Roots to Resist, Defend, Articulate, Heal and Transform … it is our stories, our experiences and that of our ancestors that are the roots. Our mission is to recreate and co create healthy forms of public coexistence.
We do this by working towards ending war and militarization; recreating/co creating a feminist restorative/regenerative economy; stopping violence against women and by halting the privatization, commodification of our public services and air/water/land – our mother the earth.
SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) was founded in 1980 with a mission to empower the disenfranchised of the southwest to realize gender and racial equity and social and economic justice. SWOP’s work is built on a foundation of community organizing and mobilization, which means that affected people will continue to identify problems, solutions, and strategies in conjunction with our organizers. Success to us looks like increased community involvement and control over the decision making that affects them. SWOP organizes in low-income communities to develop leaders and solutions, building around identities of workers, healers, educators, growers, families and children. SWOP’s four core issue areas are environmental health and justice in low income communities of color, youth rights with a focus on leadership development, gender justice with a focus on feminisms, and food justice, security and systems throughout New Mexico. We place an emphasis on leadership development with youth organizers from the barrio. Part of the strategic vision of the organization is to invest in our young people, and we are dedicated to an intergenerational approach to community organizing.
211 10th St SW