COMMUNITY PRESSURE WINS FUNDING FOR CHICANO SCHOOL

This article discusses the success after a long fight to get funding from the Oakland Board of Education for new facilities for Centro Infantil, a mostly community run preschool for predominantly Chicano preschoolers. Parents of students at Centro Infantil fought for six years to secure more funding in order to move the school from a cold warehouse with one bathroom to a better facility.

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Ericka Huggins was among those who spoke in favor of the Centro Infantil parents and children. Huggins’s involvement in the fight for quality education for Chicano students can be viewed as an effort to be in solidarity with Chicano people and fight for collective liberation. Furthermore, the article next to this one is about a United Farm Workers strike for higher wages, demonstrating how the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service highlighted news from the Chicano Movement. In an interview with Black Women Radicals, Huggins further discusses solidarity with other groups fighting for liberation and social justice.