{"id":2080,"date":"2015-04-01T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2015-04-13T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:17:53","slug":"mecha-prepares-for-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/mecha-prepares-for-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"MEChA Prepares For Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Emilio Grijalva and Aliah Luna<\/p>\n

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People gathering in Pueblo patio for 2015 Cesar Chavez March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year Pueblo\u2019s MEChA club members are getting ready to pack their bags to travel to Chicago on April 9-12, for a National MEChA conference, where they will be discussing social issues as well as meeting other students across the country.<\/p>\n

The \u201cMEChistas\u201d are fundraising $4,000 to buy plane tickets to send all seven club members and two sponsors to attend the conference. By mid-March, the club had already raised $3,000 from carwashes and selling food at school events; they are asking for any donations. The district donated the rest of the money needed for this trip through Title 1 funds.<\/p>\n

Co-president Yulissa Hurtado, a junior, said, \u201cMEChA represents social justice and equality for everyone. I am really excited to be able to talk to other students around the country about a lot of different issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s sponsors, Ms. Jessica Mejia, Mr. Jesus Ordu\u00f1o and Ms. Sally Rusk are very proud of this year\u2019s club members and wholeheartedly support the fervid efforts of their students.<\/p>\n

\u201cMEChA gives the students a voice and connects Pueblo with the community,\u201d said Mejia.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, March 28, MEChA hosted a fundraiser at Pueblo for Cesar Chavez\u2019s birthday from 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Food was served and a DJ played music to entertain the crowd. MEChA was able to raise more money for their trip to Chicago through entry fees.<\/p>\n

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Pueblo High School MEChistas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier that day, MEChA members as well as other supporters and students in other Pueblo clubs walked from Pueblo to Rudy Garcia Park to bring awareness to social issues.<\/p>\n

MEChA, which began in the late 1960s during the Chicano Rights Movement, is a student-run organization that focuses on social justice and community outreach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Emilio Grijalva and Aliah Luna This year Pueblo\u2019s MEChA club members are getting ready to pack their bags to travel to Chicago on April 9-12, for a National MEChA conference, where they will be discussing social issues as well as meeting other students across the country. The \u201cMEChistas\u201d are fundraising $4,000 to buy plane … Continue reading MEChA Prepares For Chicago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[167,11,135,161,22,211],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-xy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}