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Our Mission is to develop and use our creative capacity to express the dignity and diversity of our Mexican heritage from indigenous Mesoamerican roots to contemporary expressions and to develop and celebrate our community through economic development community building community health and civic engagement. What we do Our efforts are grounded in the belief that we are a part of nature and part of a lineage of earthbased cultural practices and wisdoms that are key to restoring balance and health not only to our community but to the soil plants insects and animals with whom we share the earth. This is why our resistance work is multifaceted and interconnected we resist by organizing against injustice and by building alternative systems that nourish our community. We resist a system that dehumanizes us and continuously work towards establishing an alternative model along the way learning to heal our relationship with each other and with the land.