Hermandad General Body Meeting

La Hermandad

We are continuing our weekly tradition of meeting, eating food together and discussing our experiences. All our welcome if it sounds interesting to you :)

Our core beliefs are listed below:

Our goal is education. Nuestra misión es educar.

But it is with the great misfortune of an unjust and imperfect system that quality education in the United States remains a privilege rather than a human right. We are different from that system. We resist it consciously, making sacrifices, investing time, giving up a lot for a better future for everyone. Our time, our energy, our passion goes into this struggle. That is why we study. That is the goal of our education. Quality education remains only a privilege, but what we do with this privilege is one of the most significant actions we will ever make as individuals. 

We each have an obligation to our communities. Cada uno de nosotros tiene una obligación con nuestras comunidades.

Our institution is where we have the opportunity to learn and to prepare ourselves to fulfill this obligation, to serve our communities, and to promote social justice. Therefore, what we choose to learn and what we do with what we learn is significant to our development and the improvement of our world. 

At the same time, we will hold our institution up to its commitment to the poor, to social justice, to quality education, respect for all persons, and an inclusive community including a diverse faculty, student body, staff, and curriculum. 

We do not settle for mediocrity. We are not mediocre. No nos conformamos con la mediocridad. No somos mediocres.

Rather than fracture our communities, we rebuild them. 

We fight apathy, complacency, and challenge the inequalities that victimize so many people in our families, communities, nation, and world. 

We raise awareness of social, cultural, historical, political and ethical issues in our communities and on our campus. We work actively to maintain our culture and promote the values we see as paramount for us to flourish as a community. 

Our commitment does not end when we graduate. That is when it expands. Nuestro compromiso no termina cuando nos graduamos. Ahí es cuando se expande. We will not go back to our communities or return to our friends, families, and neighbors empty handed. We will return with the knowledge, critical consciousness, social consciousness, and the skills to reorganize, rebuild, and empower our communities. We are revolutionaries because when we return to our communities we embody a commitment to social justice and human rights. 

We create and support Hermandad. La Hermandad is a family, a community. We support each other in our academic work and our lives, as we work towards everyone’s success.

¡WE ARE LA HERMANDAD!