Hello and welcome to Red Minnis. My name is Alison Escalante, and I am here without Brett

today for an episode that is a little bit different than what we usually do. We've obviously

recently been trying to get back into engaging with more texts. But for this month, we are doing something

I think it's going to be really exciting, which is that we are actually talking to a number of

organizers from the Ultra Red Collective about a trip that they recently took to Central America

and some interesting conversations about popular education that I hope will be valuable for our audience.

So we're mixing it up a little bit, and I'm hosting solo, but I'm pretty confident that if you've

listened to the show for a while and you're familiar with the themes that we talk about, you'll find a lot

that is resonant with, you know, what we do on this show. So really excited for this interview and I'll go

ahead and just ask if the folks on the call would like to introduce themselves, just who you are,

what you're organizing kind of background is, just setting that up for our audience.

Awesome. Thank you. Thank you so much, Alison, for having us. Thank you to Red Menace. My name is

Christina Sanchez Juarez. I am an organizer with the Sacramento Valley Tenants Union, a member of

the Altru Red Collective that is working on research for this journal about Central America.

I'm also a former member of LATU, the Los Angeles Tenants Union.

I lived in L.A. for about nine years and was part of the formative years of that

tenants union and have been doing everything I can to inject some of the lessons learned,

particularly in terms of popular education, up here in Sacramento, California.

Thank you again also for having us. I'm very thrilled.

I'm Daniela Ljah Quintanar, and I am a member of the Syndicato of Inquilinos of Los Angeles,

and I am part of the Issa a Local Union of Vecinos, and I've been, yeah, I'm originally

from Mexico City, and when I arrive here in Boyd Heights, I, right away, when I

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