Born and raised in California and coming from a family of activists, I was raised around community and union organizing with my father and grandpa in the United Farm Workers Union in Central and Southern California. As a child I soon embraced and lived by the social equality emphasis my parents evoked on me as farm workers. As a teen still in Middle and High School, I organized and was in charge of walking precincts in political campaigns in the Los Angeles area as well as in the Coachella and Central Valley.
I have devoted hundreds of hours in volunteer work organizing communities with farm workers’ rights and environmental justice with Organizations such as The United Farm Workers Union, Committee for A Better Arvin and Center on Poverty, Race and the Environment. While in High School, I also was responsible for organized walk-outs in support of the Dream Act and Dreamers.
Furthermore, my passion for social and environmental equality for everyone has lead me to this new Bucket Brigade Organizer position with Global Community Monitor in Kern County and I am excited to defend the human right to breath clean air and work towards bringing justice to the community in collaboration with various other local, grassroots organizations.
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December 23, 2013 at 10:30 am
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[…] relationship and to begin another year long project. Additionally, GCM expanded our team and hired Gustavo Aguirre Jr. as the Central Valley […]
March 21, 2014 at 11:21 am
Wait……. Gas has been leaking into my home for weeks?!?!?! | Air Hugger
[…] a community organizer, I Gustavo Aguirre Jr, working with GCM visited a total of five homes in Nelson Court. ALL OF the residents that I […]
October 26, 2014 at 4:17 pm
Stan Santos
You did an excellent job covering the gas leak in Arvin. Community Alliance newspaper of Fresno wants to run your issue. We would also like permission to use the photos that appear in your latest article, again, regarding Arvin. Please acknowledge. Thanks.
March 2, 2015 at 2:57 pm
Global Community Monitor
I’m so sorry, I’m just seeing this now. Thanks so much for your support. You’re welcome to use our photos as long as you credit them to us. For future communications, please e-mail us as info@gcmonitor.org. Take care!
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