Pam Martinez
Template:TOCnestleft Pam Martinez is a founding member and Co-Director of Padres & Jovenes Unidos. Pam has been involved in organizing for racial justice and equality for working class people over the last forty years. Her passion has been reflected in organizing for democratic unions, supporting the United Farmworkrs, organizing against unjust wars and for the right to college preparatory education for all. Her organizing includes the historic struggle to win Plyer v. Doe, a case in which the Supreme Court of the US struck down a state statute denying the right of undocumented students to attend public schools in Tejas; defeating Ron Unz's constitutional attack on bilingual education in Colorado; advancing educational reforms to ensure college preparation for all, organizing parents to open new excellent schools; developing a youth organizing component of Padres known nationally for its outstanding organizing, leadership and youth voice - Jovenes Unidos; creating new graduation requirements to ensure College Prep for All students in the Denver Public Schools, and establishing new policies to end racial disparities in discipline, which is being replicated nationally. Currently, Ms. Martinez helped to secure an i3 grant in which Padres Unidos will be organizing to advance literacy amongst English Language Learners. Pam Martinez serves on the board of the Advancement Project.
Unity
Pam Cole-Martinez , Secretary of Parents United for Progressive Education Denver, contributed to Unity, November 10 1986, the newspaper of the League of Revolutionary Struggle.
SON
In 1992 Pam Cole-Martinez was an activist in the anti-English only movement in public schools, and a member of the Socialist Organizing Network.[1]
Forward Motion
In 1995, Pam Martinez, contributed an article to Freedom Road Socialist Organization's February Forward Motion "Students walk out Denver protest". She is a member of Padres Unidos and the Latino Education Coalition.[2]
Advancement Project board member
Board members of the Advancement Project, as of March 2013;[3]
- Joe Alvarez
- Harry Belafonte
- Stephen R. English, Esq
- Penda D. Hair, Esq
- Gerry Hudson
- Bruce Iwasaki
- Bill Lann Lee, Esq
- Barrett S. Litt
- Pam Martinez
- Molly Munger, Esq
- Sheila Thomas
- Gerald Torres, Esq
- Zack Walker
References
- ↑ Forward Motion/CrossRoads, April 1992, page 16]
- ↑ [Forward Motion, Summer 1994]
- ↑ Advancement Project website, BOD, accessed march 17, 2013