Dr. Pinheiro, a permanent member of the movement "Los Sin Tierra", of Brazil as well as the Union Internacional de Trabajadores de la Alimentación (UITA). He is a founder and member of the foundation JUQUIRA CANDIRA and various other NGOs. He visited the community of Santa María Yaviche as part...
Download the book by clicking on the image below Presentation (p.16) Community Geographies is a Book and Workbook. It is the expression of various creative social processes, pedagogical, intervention and community accompaniment, always permeated by trust. It is the result of the personal and professional experience of more than 20...
Mapping Life Practices, knowledge, knowledge and sciences for all. DOWNLOAD BY CLICKING HERE It is a self-managed edition, has been made with its own resources and based on multiple exercises of building collective knowledge, with and from different territories. It aspires to be a contribution to the care and defense...
For more information visit the website Global Community Engagement in Oaxaca, Mexico In this program, students are immersed in grassroots work of local Fair Trade activists through a 1-credit winter break faculty-led program conducted through SIT. The program includes site visits and conversations with community members focusing on economic, political...
Alternative Economies, Indigeneity, and Migration During this program students learn about alternative economies migration and indigeneity in the state of Oaxaca. During their time with SURCO A.C., they receive classes, as well as meet with different artists and activists in the city. Some of these classes and workshops have included...
More information can be found on the universities website. By looking at topics such as the War on Drugs, domestic violence, race and racism, and alternative forms of justice, students explore how justice in Mexico compares to that in their own communities. In this interactive class, students will examine the...
More information can be found in the Unversity of Ottawa website Focusing in the themes of social justice, this course looks to understand the socioeconomic inequalities and the sociocultural conflicts in Mexico that make certain social groups more excluded and discriminated socially, economically, legally and institutionally. We study the sociological,...
For more information visit the program website Border Studies is a semester long program based out of Tucson Arizona, that runs in both the spring and fall. It includes a class component, field study with a local organization, and excursions. Potential excursions take Border Studies students to a number of...
Visit the website for more information The Center for University Studies, CEUXHIDZA is a learning community inspired by intercultural dialogue and knowledge. We consider that wisdom is not used just to interpret the world, but to change it. We wish to share an educative process of constant investigation and learning...
More information about the program can be found on the University of Kentucky website. Uky.edu program in Oaxaca During this 8 week long program, students engage with themes of social and environmental justice through addressing themes of global economy and its local effects, land tenure, and "clean energy" in the...
More information can be found at the University of Arizona website. Land, Culture and Politics in Oaxaca This program, similar to the one through University of Kentucky, consists of 8 weeks of students engaging with themes of social and environmental justice through addressing issues of global economy and its local...
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Click here to download the high resolution map and legend. GOLD RESOURCE CORP or DON DAVID GOLD MEXICO MINING PROJECTS Servicios Universitarios y Redes de Conocimientos en Oaxaca (SURCO), presents the first part of the research carried out on mining projects in Oaxaca. This research focuses on the U.S. mining...
Click here to download high resolution map and legend About this work The main purpose of this work was to define and locate more clearly the projects El Roble, Lachatao and Geranio. The map illustrates these three mining projects of the Canadian company First Mining Gold Corp. (FMGC), as well...
Download the high resolution map Project Santa Maria On the website of Minaurum Gold Inc, revised in July 2018, there is a map of the Santa Marta project, which illustrates two mining concessions: the "Mar de Cobre" (Title: 231753) and "Jackita" (Title: 225472) in the Cartografía Minera de la Secretaria...
CEUXhidza is a learning community located in the "El Rincón” region of the Sierra Juárez de Oaxaca, in a community called Santa María Yaviche. The community assembly of Santa María Yaviche, alongside SURCO launched this initiative with an aim to strengthen indigenous education with a proposal for better bilingual higher...
We congratulate the recent publication of the members of Consorcio Oaxaca "Experiencias alternativas de educación y estrategias para docentes frente a la violencia escolar" a product of a collective effort. Diverse actors contributed, including SURCO, who shared lived experiences from el Centro de Estudios Universitarios; a university project promoted and...
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This winter we started a new university program in SURCO with students at the Northwest Indian College, located in Bellingham Washington. It is a great pleasure to have students from the first nations of North America: Quinna Hamby of the Tuscarora(Skarure) Nation, and Mikaela Ponca Montoya of the Osage(Niakonska) Nation,...
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