Community Rights Campaign

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.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lausd-20100908,0,2014107.story

One Step Closer Toward Ending Tardy/Truancy Tickets

by Kendra Williby

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

by Lissett Lazo

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.

Direct Action: Tool for Transforming Society -- SYOA Alumni 2010 Mike Breazell

by Kendra Williby

In our forth annual Summer Youth Organizing Academy, Mike Breazell performs a spoken word piece that takes it back to our "Billons for Buses" Campaign and reaffirms that our fight is not over and nor will we give up what is rightfully ours!

Direct Action: Tool for Transforming Society -- SYOA Alumni 2010 Cinthia Gonzalez

by Kendra Williby

Cithnia Gonzalez performs a spoken word piece, connecting our fight to end the "truancy sweeps" and pre-prisoning of our Black and Latino students at Roosevelt High School with the Chicano Student Walk Outs in 1968 and other oppressed nationality struggles for self-determination and liberation.