SBTA Application 2010.pdf

Are you a teacher, student or a parent planning for spring break? How about
using the break to go beyond the classroom experience to learn how to become a
civil rights/human rights organizer in your community?

This spring
break, March 29th to April 2nd, the Labor/Community Strategy Center’s Community
Rights Campaign will be holding a week-long internship for youth of color and
working class youth in LAUSD schools. Spring
Break Take Action (SBTA) is built off of the student organizing
happening at Cleveland, Manual Arts and Westchester High Schools, but is open to
all LAUSD students.

This year’s program will be focused on the "The War
on Drugs, Gangs, and Poor Black and Latino Communities." Specifically, we will
go into more depth around the policies, laws and court decisions that have put
2.3 million people in prison today—making the US the largest incarcerator of the
world. 

Youth participants will engage in several forms of learning
pedagogy to gain a greater understanding of these conditions—ranging from
theater, seminars, group discussions, and poetry. Youth will also participate in
the Strategy Center’s current campaign, 1,000 More Buses, 1,000 Less
Police, a campaign that is working to expand social services and
community reinvestment over expansion of the ever growing prison-police state.

To apply to Spring Break Take Break please download the application above or
contact Kendra Williby at 213-387-2800.