E-mail: josue@thepraxisproject.org
Josué started doing social justice work when he
participated in the Center for Third World Organizing's organizer training program. That led to jobs with SEIU (locals 1877 in San Jose
and 14 in San Francisco), PUEBLO in Oakland, and the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union (after merging with the Ladies Garment Workers Union, ACTWU became UNITE) all over the country.
Josué spent two years with IGC - the Institute for Global Communications, where he ran the LaborNet website, helped unions take advantage of technological advances and helped the staff form a union with SEIU Local 790. Additionally, he was a founding member of PODER, a community organization doing work on environmental and economic justice issues in San Francisco's Mission District, and is a current board member of IMC - the Institute for Mass Communications.
In February 2001, Josué joined Media Jumpstart, a non profit worker collective (whose name later changed to May First Technology Collective) dedicated to supporting the technology needs of small non profits in New York City. When that project was shut down in May 2005, it merged with People Link to form a membership based Internet company striving to build a technology infrastructure to support the creation of real social change. Josué is a co-director of that venture, not-so-originally named May First/People Link.
Josué has helped organize the NYC Grassroots Media Conference for the last couple of years. He is a board member of the Latino Educational Media Center, run by the fabulous Lillian Jimenez. He is also a staunch supporter of the open source movement,
particularly basebuilder, drupal and all of the ubuntu projects.