Our Mission
La Mujer Obrera works to strengthen our community and our relationship with the Earth by uplifting and building upon the existing knowledge in our neighborhood, Barrio Chamizal, in El Paso, Texas, directly along the U.S./Mexico border. We defend our right to stay in community and have access to quality education, dignified housing, and a clean and safe environment in order to create the space to imagine the community we deserve.
What We Do
Our efforts are grounded in the belief that we are a part of nature and part of a lineage of earth-based 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.