Community Rights Campaign

Real LASPD reform is now on the table

For the past two months, the proposals in our Solutions for Los Angeles Schools Police Department document have been part of a successful organizing and advocacy effort. We are now in a strong enough position to move them into actual policy changes. Please continue reading to get the details around our School Police reform platform to reverse the impacts of the school-to-prison pipeline! 

No ir a clases le costará caro - Noticias locales, nacionales e internacionales - impre.com

"El Código penal permite que este comportamiento se persiga como una forma de maltrato a menores, pero era algo que raramente ocurría" , explicó Zoe Rawson abogada de la organización Centro de Est

No ir a clases le costará caro - Noticias locales, nacionales e internacionales - impre.com

"El Código penal permite que este comportamiento se persiga como una forma de maltrato a menores, pero era algo que raramente ocurría" , explicó Zoe Rawson abogada de la organización Centro de Est

Back by Popular Demand: CR's Resistance Art Exhibition!

With such great reviews and high level of community participation & discussion we have brought back our "school-to-prison" pipeline maze for a second showing! Last Saturday, over 150 students, teachers, parents, and community members from various Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools and social & educational justice organizations joined the Community Rights Campaign at our Caps & Gowns NOT Jail Cell Bound event!

Caps and Gowns Not Jail Cell Bound

Don't miss this "No to Pre-Prison" Art Exhibition Saturday Oct. 2, 2010 Downtown LA

L.A. Unified delays first day of school year - latimes.com

Budget cuts have resulted in a shorter school year and unpaid furlough days for teachers and other employees. That reality, combined with the Jewish High Holy Days, has pushed things back to Sept.

L.A. Unified delays first day of school year - latimes.com

Budget cuts have resulted in a shorter school year and unpaid furlough days for teachers and other employees. That reality, combined with the Jewish High Holy Days, has pushed things back to Sept.

SYOA Notebook: It is our Duty to Fight for Freedom | August 30, 2010

Lissett Lazo, SYOA Alumni '07 and Community Rights Organizer, reflects on the highlights and breakthroughs of this year's Summer Youth Organizing Academy class. She looks back to her own experience as a SYOA student as a pivotal point in her own growth and transformation as an organizer and young Salvadoreña, Hondureña, Nucaraguense womyn.