We are calling for the Governing Board and Superintendent of America's Border College to pledge their unconditional support and commitment to the PLAN DE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE.

Our plan includes the establishment of a Department not rooted in white supremacy and colonialism, but in the genius of Chicanas, Chicanos, and other people of color.  It is called Chicana and Chicano Studies and it guarantees cultural competence, expansion of course offerings, and scholarships.

For too long, Southwestern College students have been deprived of their cultural and intellectual inheritance.  Chicanas and Mexicanos represent 2 out of every 3 students on campus, yet we are still treated as immigrants and foreigners in our own campus.  Our history is being erased or racially coded with labels as Latinx and transborder, which do nothing to empower us.  Tell administrators to stop labeling us and let us choose how we define ourselves and from what discipline we understand history.

It is too painful to see so many aspiring students not met with the support they need to be successful in academia.  Too many in our community struggle to realize the "American Dream" and the "community" college only adds to the neglect of our culture, identity, and history on campus.  As a result, our campus is only an avenue to social mobility to very few while most of us stay trapped in systemic poverty.

Sign our petition to end the cultural and intellectual neglect of college students from Mexican-descent at Southwestern College.