El Cilantro is now available online at: http://www.elcilantro.org
If you are interested in submitting a article, drawing or editorial please contact us

• by emailing el_cilantro@lvejo.org

• visiting http://www.elcilantro.org

• by coming to a Youth Meeting

Young Activists Organizing As Today’s Leaders [ Y.A.O.T.L]
 

When We Meet:
We meet three times a week:   Tuesdays & Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. and Fridays at 5:30 p.m. for El Cilantro 

What We Do:

We work together on issues ranging from fighting for cleaner air & space to immigration rights but also do fun artistic stuff like paint a mural and produce our own newsletter, El Cilantro. Currently we are working with the skating community to design a skate park.

What’s In It For You?

• Gain Leadership Skills

• Be an Activist

• Fulfill Service Learning Hours

• Learn about exciting opportunities to get involved with your community

• Become eligible for summer internships

• One on one help with college applications and scholarships

• Work on a community campaign and help make a difference in our community

LVEJO Youth Leadership:

Marisol Becerra, LVEJO Youth Member has gone from participant in the PUDDJ Program with her mom, co-created El Cilantro, learned to and teaching how to host Community Asset Toxic Tour, Intern in the Community Mapping Project, creator of the Coal Power Plant Impact Map, organizer for the Coal Power Plant Campaign, creator of the Our Environmental Google Map and winner of the Gates Millennium Scholars and the Bower Youth Award. As a sophomore at DePaul she continues to make great strides within the Environmental Justice Movement both locally and globally.

Raphael Hurtado and Jose Monarez, LVEJO Youth Members hosted the first Student Led Colloquium. The two hours class was every Wednesday for the second semester of their 2007-2008 school year. The goal was to integrate different forms of art into environmental justice. We had three final projects at the end of the semester. Our first was a sculpture for our “Hands On” artists, a mural for our “painters” in the class and a video for the people that are strong in the multimedia field.

Since 2007, LVEJO has hosted an Environmental Justice Club at Community Links High School. Students have worked on team building activities, community asset toxic tours, the Celotex campaign and our environment.

Youth Newsletter "El Cilantro": el_cilantro@lvejo.org For general LVEJO information please email us here . Comments regarding LVEJO

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Do you have something cool that you think the rest of the world needs to see?
It could be a poem, a drawing, a music review, a sports review, an article, or an opinion.   E-mail us here

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(Download as Adobe pdf):

Clean Air/Lulac Study / "Tips on Base Building" from LVEJO Board Member Carlos Fernandez

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) | La Organización de Justicia Ambiental de la Villita

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