Personal Information
 
Name:
 
Address:
 
City, State, Zip:
 
Home phone:                                                                     Work phone:
 
E-mail:                                                                         

Emergency contact:
 
Organizational Affiliation:
 
Time periods
 
Specify when you would be interested in volunteering, beginning when and for how long.
 
Housing
 
Are you applying for a house position, or a non-resident position?
 
References
 
List two references. Include Name, Phone, E-mail, and Organizational Affiliation.
 
Spanish Proficiency
 
For each task listed, please describe your level of proficiency in Spanish.  Spanish proficiency is crucial to work here. An honest evaluation will help us place you with appropriate work.
 
Speaking:
 
Writing:
 
Reading:
 
Receiving/following directions:
 
Essays
 
Please include short essays on the following topics:
 
1. It is very important that CASA members have an understanding of the current politics in Oaxaca and how it relates to a bigger, global picture.  What is your understanding of the politics in Oaxaca, and more specifically, of the social movement in 2006? How do the politics in Oaxaca (and Mexico in general) relate to the politics in your community?  What is your understanding of the local, national, and the global as mutually interconnected and shaped by forces of globalization and neoliberalism?
 
2. What kind of skills or specific experiences can you offer in Oaxaca (ie: computer programming, puppet making, electrical engineering, etc.)? And what types of projects would you like to work on?
 
3.  What is your experience of grassroots organizing, community building, and networking?
 
4. A discussion about the politics of solidarity: What does it mean to be someone from the so-called first world doing work in a so-called third world country? What kind of power dynamics shaped by gender, race, class, sexuality, and socio-political locations do you envision to encounter? What is your understanding of privilege and the role of allies?
 
5.  Although CASA members stay in Oaxaca for a short-term period, it is critical that we develop a long-term plan of solidarity in order to hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with in Oaxaca.  How do you plan to bring your experience in Oaxaca back to your community?
 
6.  CASA Chapulin strives to run as a collective with a consensus-based decision making structure.  What does this mean to you? Do you have experience working in a collective setting? What are your strengths and weaknesses of working in a collective or group setting?  How do you anticipate to establish mutual collaboration? And how do you reach consensus amongst a diverse group of members?
 
*Note: We welcome the creativity and diversity in response to these questions.  If you would like to complement an answer in another format, such as visual art, poetry, video, etc., please include it in your application.*
*Also Include with Your Application a resume or curriculum vitae