Dr. Nerdo Saurio Rex

14/11/2023

07/09/2023

Via CSUDH - spread the word to your classrooms against the proposed indefinite 6% tuition fee hike for the CSU. We’ve been fighting these fee hikes since my days as an undergrad activist at CSUN. That they are set to increase indefinitely is ridiculous! Actions next week on campus (Monday 3pm LSU courtyard & at Sept 12 CSU Board of Trustees meeting)

26/07/2023

Link to registration available in linktree bio or visit: https://runsignup.com/Race/CA/Compton/5kfor5kScholarshipFundraiserrace

19/07/2023

Whistleblower: Migrant Children are being trafficked & U.S. Agencies are the “Middlemen” (from 2 months ago)

19/07/2023

Hey fellow runners in Los Angeles, as y’all know I moved back to Compton earlier this year and while here I joined the Compton Run Club. The CRC is hosting its annual 5K run to raise scholarship funds for Compton Unified High School students. You can find the sign up link below. Please spread the word! If you don’t want to run, you can still donate to help the cause 🙂

Date: AUGUST 19 Saturday 7:45am-12:30pm
123 N Rose Ave. Compton, CA US 90221

P.S. Compton run club gathers Tuesdays 6:15 pm (to start at 6:30 pm) and Saturday mornings 7:45 am (to start by 8am). Usually at Patria Coffee Roasters in Compton but some weeks we meet at other local businesses, non-profits or community centers.

The 5k for $5k Scholarship Fundraiser- Compton Run Club is on Saturday August 19, 2023. It includes the following events: 5k for $5k Scholarship Fundraiser and 5k for $5k Scholarship Fundraiser (Virtual).

06/07/2023

2-4: Yesterday the WalMart shooter, Patrick Crisius, who sought to “kill Mexicans” in El Paso appeared in court—with no remorse towards the families of the victims.

1 - 2019: dancing at a press conference in protest of then President tRump’s visit to El Paso Texas after this mass shooting in 2019 that, at the time, led to the deaths of 22 people. More would succumb to their injuries months later. Community members denounced tRump’s visit considering that it was his anti-Mexican rhetoric that inspired the mass shooting in the first place.

5-8 - In these photos: some of the signs that caught my attention when I visited the memorial where the shooting took place

14/06/2023

June 13 anniversary of the eviction of the South Central Farmers.
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What was the fight for the South Central Farm? This land was given to the community as one of the solutions to resolve the unrest following the 1992 LA riots. Instead of applying for welfare programs, local families applied for plots of land to grow their own food at the SCF. Unfortunately, these 14 acres were sold via a back room deal by the corrupt LA City council and the district representative Jan Perry to developer Ralph Horowitz. The legal and community battle to preserve the farm was one of the struggles that engaged me as an activist in my high school years. I participated in the occupation of the land up until we were forced out by LAPD.

The farmers were displaced June 13 2006. I still remember that sad day. The morning that we were raided by LAPD I called all my activist friends in the Los Angeles MEChA Central Network and activists at Lynwood High School. So many people from the local community came out to protest the eviction day. The amount of LAPD officers present that day was insane. Police brutality was, of course, rampant.

I am thankful that it lit a fire inside me to fight for social justice in my community. I continued to work with the group afterwards and it inspired my ongoing activism and scholarship.

Fun fact: In the first image above I was in the 11th grade and this was the same morning that the farmers and activists were forced out of the farm. Many activists, of course, stayed behind and participated in civil disobedience—chaining themselves to fences and other parts of the farmland.

The farm may be gone but the movements and people it inspired have grown and flourished since then. I am happy to have been part of that experience.

17/05/2023

17/04/2023

The little-known history of anti-clericalism in Mexico during the 1930s. It was a movement where Mexican women were at the forefront preaching the separation of Church and state. As seen in the overhead banner, they also protested the violence of Cristero religious fanatics. While some like "Madre Conchita" did ascribe to the wave of violent religious zealots, the history of Mexico's anti-clerical women aught to dispel the misconception that women in Mexico always tended to be Catholic "religious fanatics"--quite the contrary.

30/03/2023

For those attending NACCS. I’ll be presenting Thursday at 2:30. Cyall soon!

17/02/2023

My first talk for the CSUDH’s History Department Histories of Race, Power, and Resistance series. Presenting on an in-process article on women in early colonial Michoacán. Looking forward to it :)