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Download Lift Us Up e-book FREE NOW!

This is to let you know that you can get a free download of book Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out book that includes an article that I wrote on  “The Same Struggle:  Immigrant Rights and Educational Justice”  (see the message below).

Jose Zapata Calderon
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies
1050 North Mills Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711-6101
(909) 952-1640
 Jose_Calderon@pitzer.edu
Website:  www.josezcalderon.com
Great news from the People’s Think Tank!

In support of the mass anti-racist protests, the police free schools movement, and the education justice organizing in response to COVID-29, Beacon Press has made our Lift Us Up Don’t Push Us Out! book FREE for download on Amazon kindle, Google Play Books and the Apple Books app!

This is a great time to push this out to your members and allies. Offer ends August 31st, so act now!

Visit the Lift Us Up book’s website for more information.

Sample email:

Dear friends,

Download our e-book FREE NOW!

Lift us up Don’t push us out! Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement is now available FREE for download on Amazon kindle, Google Play Books and the Apple Books app! Offer ends August 31st, so act now!

Check it out to learn about the organizing and movement-building that helped lead to our current surge in antiracism and police free schools!

The book features essays by Jitu Brown, Jose Calderon, Jonathan Stith, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Maisie Chin, Carlos Rojas, Pam Martinez, Joyce Parker, Sally Lee, and more!

or

The book features essays on education justice organizing including:  “The Same Struggle:  Immigrant Rights and Educational Justice” by Jose Calderon, the Dignity in Schools Campaign, Alliance for Educational Justice, Journey for Justice Alliance, GSA Network, CADRE in Los Angeles, Padres & Jovenes Unidos in Denver, Girls for Gender Equity and Coalition for Educational Justice in NYC, and more!

Visit the Lift Us Up book’s website for more information.

Sample tweet:

Download FREE e-book now! Lift us up Don’t push us out! Voices from Frontlines of the Educational Justice Movement features organizing that helped lead to surge in antiracism and #PoliceFreeSchools! FREE on Amazon Kindle Google Play Books & Apple Books app https://www.amazon.com/Lift-Dont-Push-Out-Educational-ebook/dp/B077RLYTR2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Lessons from an Activist Intellectual

Over the years, I have written a number of articles as an activist intellectual and organizer.   A number of colleagues, former students, friends and family members had proposed that I compile the articles and publish them as a means of sharing the lessons learned from making the connections between teaching, research, and organizing for social change.  It is in that spirit that I have published a book, Lessons from an Activist Intellectual.  Although the publishing date is not until August 16th, there are various options to pre-ordering the book: 

1.  Pre-order by sending $25 to:  Jose Z. Calderon, Pitzer College, 1050 N. Mills Ave., Claremont, CA 91711

2.  Order through Amazon, cost of $32.95 at: http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Activist-Intellectual-Teaching-Organizing/dp/0761865888

3.  Order through Barnes and Noble at $26.39: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lessons-from-an-activist-intellectual-jose-zapata-calderon/1121871729?ean=9780761865889[p

4.  Order through Rowman & Littlefield at:

 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761865889/Lessons-from-an-Activist-Intellectual-Teaching-Research-and-Organizing-for-Social-Change

Description of book:
Lessons from an Activist Intellectual provides examples of how an academician can combine the roles of teacher, researcher, and activist with a community-based critical pedagogy for democracy and empowerment. This book discusses the interconnections made between José Calderón’s pedagogy and his history as an immigrant, student, social movement leader, researcher, professor, and community organizer. At the same time, it provides examples of an interactive, intercultural, and interdisciplinary pedagogy that involves both students andcommunity participants as both teachers and learners in social change projects. This style of pedagogy has a particular salience for historically excluded individuals from diverse racial, class, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds,  for whom the educational experience can be both an alienating and empowering experience.  
Jose Zapata Calderon
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies

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