Ruben Solis

Ruben Solis

Template:TOCnestleft Ruben Solis Garcia has been working to advance "people’s liberation movements" for over 40 years. He works in project leadership, at Project South, Atlanta Georgia.

Background

Born in la Grulla on the border of Mexico and the United States, Solis is an organizer, historian, and social movement educator. He co-founded the Southwest Workers Union in 1981 in San Antonio, and two decades later, SWU is one of the most significant examples of community labor organizing, racial justice work, and environmental justice organizing in the country.

Ruben Solis was part of the founding group of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Southwest Network for Environmental & Economic Justice, and the Colegio Jacinto Trevino in 1970, a Chicano Freedom School in the Rio Grande Valley.

Solis organized the Border Social Forum in 2006 as an essential step on the road to the first US Social Forum in 2007. As co-coordinator of the Peoples Movement Assembly from 2007 to the present, Solis has been a primary architect in designing and testing community governance methodology to build power and self-determination in this moment.

In 2011, Ruben Solis founded the University Sin Fronteras to respond to the critical need for advanced social movement study based in practice, history, and theory.

SWOP early leaders

SouthWest Organizing Project May 18

Photo from 1999

It's Flashback Friday! 💥💫💥💫💥

Here we have a photo of SWOP members Ruben Solis Garcia, Karlos Gauna Schmieder, Ruth Contreras, and Xavier Morales. Ruben co-founded and worked for Southwest Workers Union in San Antonio and is the founder of University Sin Fronteras, as well as a long time Chicano activist. Karlos has a long family history with SWOP, currently serves as a SWOP board member and also does great work with Arriba NM. Ruth is a long time community activist and member, and provided much service during her history at SWOP. Xavier Morales has an extensive history volunteering for SWOP during his early years (he actually built SWOP's first website!) and is currently the Executive Director of The Praxis Project.

Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s

The Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s was the Committees of Correspondence's first national conference held in Berkeley, California July 17-19, 1992.

Workshops that were held at the conference on Saturday, July 18 included:

Environment The left, ecology and the environmental movement. What are elements of an effective strategy? Labor & community concerns, confronting environmental racism and forging unity in struggle

• Henry Clark, exec. director, West County Toxics Coalition, Richmond (CA)
• Adrian Price, SF Green Party
• David Schwartzman, prof. of zoology, Howard Univ., Washington, D.C.
• Ruben Solis, Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, TX
• Sheila Sexton, environmental and community activist

DataCenter Donor

In 2007 Ruben Solis was listed on the DataCenter's annual report as a donor to the organization. The Oakland, California based DataCenter is widely regarded as the intellegence wing of the United States Left and has close ties to Cuba.

Statewide March to Coincide With National Anti-War Marches

AUSTIN- In solidarity with national gatherings in major cities and a national march in Washington D.C. a coalition of local activist groups called Stop The War Coalition - Austin has planned a peaceful statewide anti-war march.

The march will convene at Austin City Hall at 3:00 pm on Saturday, January 27, 2007 and the march to the Texas Capitol will commence at 3:30 pm. Music and speakers will greet the marchers at the Capitol grounds and City Hall. Speakers will include Hart Viges of Veterans for Peace, Texas Green Party Co-Chair Dr. Douglas Reber, Hadi Jawad of The Crawford Peace House, Karen Burke of Campus Antiwar Movement to End the Occupation, and Ruben Solis of Southwest Workers Union and main organizer of Border Social Forum. Contacts: Spencer Crowl, Martin Thomen.

US Social Forum National Planning Committee

Contact Sheet for the National Planning Committee of the U.S. Social Forum, Detroit 2010. Original April 09, 2009, Updated February 23, 2010.

• Southwest Workers Union (San Antonio, Tx) - Ruben Solis, Genaro Lopez-Rendon.

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance 10th anniversary

10 years ago in San Antonio, grassroots leaders from communities of color, indigenous peoples and low-income communities across the US voted to launch a new alliance to connect US-based grassroots organizing to international social movements. And so, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance was born!

In 2015, we are coming full circle to San Antonio for our 10th Anniversary Kick-Off Event!

Join us for an intergenerational panel of activists in dialogue about activism and the resurgence of street mobilization in the global justice movement, from the early 2000s to 2015.

Moderated by Ajamu Dillahunt of Black Workers for Justice

Speakers:

• Ruben Solis Garcia, Universidad Sin Fronteras
• Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
• Tammy Bang Luu, Labor/Community Strategy Center
• Jessica O. Guerrero, Fuerza Unida Mujeres
• Sandra Garcia & Dorian Angulo, Southwest Workers Union
• Cindy Wiesner, GGJ National Coordinator

Now What? Defying Trump and the Left's Way Forward

Now What? Defying Trump and the Left's Way Forward was a phone in webinar organized by Freedom Road Socialist Organization in the wake of the 2016 election.

Now what? We’re all asking ourselves that question in the wake of Trump’s victory. We’ve got urgent strategizing and work to do, together. Join Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson of the Movement for Black Lives and Freedom Road, Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Jodeen Olguin-Taylor of Mijente and WFP, Joe Schwartz of the Democratic Socialists of America, and Sendolo Diaminah of Freedom Road for a discussion of what happened, and what we should be doing to build mass defiance. And above all, how do we build the Left in this, which we know is the only solution to the crises we face?

This event will take place Tuesday November 15, 2016 at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central/6pm Pacific.

Those invited, on Facebook included Ruben Solis.

Free Marissa Alexander

Emery Lumumba July 28, 2014 ·

1. unite2fight — with Ruben Solis Garcia, Carolyn Pittman and Ash-Lee Henderson.

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