 |
 |
We DEMAND
Schools Not Jails
Free Education is a Human Right
No fees for higher education.
Fund extracurricular activities.
Reduce the class sizes to a maximum of 20 students for all grade
levels.
Fund retention programs.
Hire and train more administrators and teachers of color.
End high stakes standardized testing.
Language is a Human Right
Fund and augment bilingual education.
Develope Early Second Language Development Programs for all
students.
Life, Liberty, and Work are Human Rights
Fund jobs for youth to be pro-active in their
communities.
Stop tracking youth, especially youth of color, into remedial
classes.
Stop environmental racism. Corporations and companies that
pollute our communities should be closed down and lose their
licensces.
Freedom of Movement and Security of Person
are Human Rights
We are entitled to coexist with others without fear of
intimidation, coercion, or harassment by any government
agencies.
Laws that make youth ÒillegalÓ attack our human right to an
education regardless of where we reside.
Self-determination is a Human Right
Fund African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Native
American Studies, Xicana/o Studies on all campuses as a requirement
to graduate and entrance to college.
Curriculum K through 12 should reflect the real history of the
United States.
We need to learn about people of color, working people, women,
lesbian/gay, physically disabled and all those that have been left
out of our histories.
Corporations and Military Should Stay Out of Our
Schools
Donations from corporations should be condition-free. There is
no place for commercials in the schools.
The military is not an educational institution. Teaching about
violence, killing, guns, and warfare has no place on any campus.
Just say no to the ROTC.
|
|
 | |
|
 |
|
Some good news against Prop 21
The LA Times reported this morning
that parts of Prop 21 have been ruled unconstitutional by a state
appeals court. The ruling is based on the fact that the proposition
conflicts with issues of separation of POWER. The provision of prop
21 in question is the power to send juveniles to adult trials/jails
by prosecutors - and not by judges.
NOT
being questioned are other sections of the proposition that allow
police to wiretap, engage in other types of surveillance, or its
definition of a "gang".
Because
this decision against Prop 21 was made by an appeals court, and not
the State Supreme Court, it can still be challenged by local
district attorney's office. Most district attorney's offices said
they wouldn't challenge the rulings. However, Los Angeles is
attempting to reserve their future appellate "rights", by saying
they will object to motions that lets youth now in adult courts
tohave hearings on their status held by Juvenile Court
judges.
Also see:
LA
Times Article: Good News on Prop 21 The New Youth Movement
In California
It looks like one, it moves like one, it
sounds like one, it just may be one
By
Elizabeth Martinez
Last February, 42 mostly professional adults—lawyers,
teachers, civil rights leaders, and older activists—were arrested
for shutting down the Oakland jail to demonstrate against a vicious
juvenile crime law. They did this out of a strong belief that it was
time to show adult support for the many youth fighting that new
injustice. In the days that followed, teenagers came up to me and
said, "Thank you." No, I thought, I am thanking you. This article is
about why.
For thousands of Californians, the new millennium brought years
of organizing work to a powerful climax with great promise for the
future. A future that may well witness a massive, multinational
youth force—radicalized, organized, and trained—as not seen in 40
years, if ever in the United States. Students of color have
conducted lengthy struggles elsewhere, like the long, anti-racist
sit-in at the University of Michigan in February-March. On campuses
from Arizona to Ohio, students have held often militant protests in
solidarity with workers in sweatshops or right on campus, while
Columbia is seeing another round of struggle for Latino Studies.
Winds of resistance also blow in Latin America, where the year-long
struggle at the University of Mexico has raged as well as massive
student and teacher movements in at least ten other
countries.
Click
to Read More.
| |
 | |
|
|
