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*New job opening* (updated 5/2013) for full-time community housing organizer and study abroad professor. Women, people of color, LGBT persons, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Come join a hardworking team that is dedicated to fighting for justice by building community power, long-term autonomous political projects, and international solidarity.

We will only be taking applications until May 24, 2013
 
The Mexico Solidarity Network has one job opening for a community housing organizer and study abroad professor. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
 
• extensive experience in community-based organizing, particularly in immigrant and undocumented communities,
• experience teaching and with popular education
• knowledge of the Latin American social, political and economic context,
• ability to travel, possibly for three consecutive months,
• Spanish and English fluency,
• flexibility, creativity and accountability working within a collective that currently consists of six full time staff based in Chicago and Mexico,
• a strong work ethic founded in a political orientation that is anti-capitalist, and
• a strong commitment to fundamental political change in the US and Mexico.
 
The job requires a flexible, self-starting, multi-skilled person who can work in a collective doing both community organizing and educational work, including:
• development of a unique Community Housing Trust that defends home-owners and renters from foreclosure and eviction, and makes demands on banks for donations of foreclosed houses, to be held in perpetuity by the community.
• development of study abroad programs focused on Leftist social movements in Latin America.
 
The job is based in Chicago, with occasional travel to Mexico and other parts of Latin America. The position includes health stipend and four weeks paid vacation per year. Starting salary is $30,000 per year. Interested candidates should forward a resume and writing sample (something less than 5 pages that indicates your commitment to anti-capitalist community organizing) to MSN [at] MexicoSolidarity [dot] org.
 
The Mexico Solidarity Network’s work includes:
• a study abroad program focused on Mexican social movements that prepares youth and students for organizing work in the US and Mexican contexts,
• solidarity work with community-based autonomous groups in south and central Mexico,
• the Centro Autónomo in Chicago, a community center focused on housing, education, work and health in immigrant and undocumented communities;
 
For more information on the Mexico Solidarity Network, please see our web site at www.mexicosolidarity.org or call 773-583-7728.
We will only be taking applications until May 24, 2013