Youth
Organizing to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline Resolution | US Social Forum 2010
Publication Date:
Jul 6 2010
Zero Tolerance and the School-to-Prison Pipeline | by Jim Freeman from Advancement Project
The Advancement Project's presentation at the US Social Forum during our "Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline" workshop. The workshop was hosted by the Advancement Project (Washington, D.C.), Padres y Jovenes Unidos (Denver, Colorado), and the Community Rights Campaign "No to Pre-Prison" Campagin (Los Angeles).
US Social Forum Spoken Word Piece: Para Los Jovenes In the Struggle
Lissett Lazo, Community Rights Organizer, performs a spoken word piece at the US Social Forum 2010, during our "Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline" workshop with our national allies (Advancement Project, Padres y Jovenes Unidos, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, Youth United for Change, and Power U Center).
The Community Rights Campaign Opposes CA SB 1317
California State Senator Mark Leno, is the Author of CA SB 1317, a bill that
will impose unnecessary and severely punitive consequences for families in the
public school system by allowing the schools to fine and/or jail
parents/guardians of students that are “chronically truant” with a newly created
misdemeanor charge. To continue reading our letter of opposition addressed to the California Assembly Committee on Education please click below.
Turn Up the Heat -- by Mark-Anthony Johnson
Mark-Anthony delivers another astounding spoken-word performance
Community Rights Campaign: A Video Overview
A quick video introduction to the Community Rights Campaign
Cleveland Taking Action Fundraiser Night at Ultrazone Laser Tag!
This May the Strategy Center will be celebrating their 21st Political Party! We have 40 youth from Cleveland Taking Action that would like to attend our Political Party. This annual party is one of the main ways our club is able to sustain itself. The youth have organized a fundraiser night at Ultrazone Laser Tag to pay for their tickets to the Political Party! Taking Action asks you to please support our students attending the 21st Anniversary by joining us for a night of fun at Ultrazone!
Spring Break Take Action: The Building Ground for the Next Civil/Human Rights Organizers
Jeanette Charles, Strategy Center member and co-coordinator of the 2010 Spring Break Take Action, blogs about the most impactful lessons the group experienced and the inspiration she gained witnessing the youth take leaps and bounds in their own organizing skills and expanding their understanding of our histories in this country as...
Truancy Tickets Resulting in Unreasonable Police and School Searches
By Zoe Rawson
The Community Rights Campaign recently provided a "Know Your Rights" training where students, parents and organizers came out from around the city. We focused on the daytime curfew restrictions (informally known as "truancy tickets") the court process and we covered legal rights on police and school searches. As a group, we analyzed the ways in which the police, the schools and the courts interact with students and communities.
