5 Ways to Take Action after Charleston & Making Connections to Police Violence by Isaac Lev Szmonko Before Dylann Storm Roof took the lives of 9 Black people at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston Wednesday, he said, “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking …
The room was humming with voices and energy as we dragged in extra chairs to accommodate the 36 folks who turned out to dialog on #BlackLivesMatter. After starting with some readings from Alicia Garza, co-founder of #BLACKLIVESMATTER, everyone shared with a few others what they hoped to get from the …
Our legal system was designed to promote fairness and work for justice. However, people of color, especially black men, are arrested and tried at higher rates than whites. Once they are arrested, blacks are disproportionately more likely to go to jail for the same crime whites commit. According to the …
By Chad Bolla Skip Freeman: This just in from America’s number one news source, Justice News: Middle-aged white man shot in the face and died on the spot after threatening police officer with a hug. Witnesses say that Johnny Whiteness approached a police officer with arms out in full hugging …
This article first appeared on the East Bay Solidarity Network site. Thanks to Solidarity members for permission to republish. Young service workers on the sanctity of small business. It was the first Friday of December, which in Oakland usually means hoards of people descending onto Telegraph Avenue for the monthly …
Speak Out has put together a resource page to help folks better understand this historic moment for racial justice and and to get involved. Asking, “Have you wondered what you might have done if you’d been around during the Civil Rights movement? Or if you had been active, what is …
by Bianca Licata First in a five-part series. With only three weeks left in the school year, and two weeks left of my student teaching, my mentor teacher—“Ms. Jones”—had just finished organizing all of her students’ files, making notes about their proclivity toward one subject or another, and their general …
by Bianca Licata Second in a Five-Part Series. In Part One of this series, we read about a white woman who did not allow her child the help he needed for his disability because it would stop him from attending a charter school. This child was two grade levels behind …
by Bianca Licata Third in a Five-Part Series. As described in Part Two of this series, “Teaching English Language Learners: History and Tensions,” by the 21st century the highly effective programs for English Language Learners (ELLs) had been largely dismantled. Students were left with a “hegemonic, English-only, homogenized curriculum… propagated …
by Bianca Licata Fifth in a Five-Part Series. The combination of anti-immigrant attitudes and policies, the dismantling of programs for English Language Learners, and the demands of No Child Left Behind into the context of Sonoma County’s demographics, where 42 percent of students are identified as Latino, and 22 percent …