Willful Defiance tells the story of how Black and Brown parents and students organized to dismantle the school–to–prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement that spread across the country. It examines organizing processes in Mississippi, Los Angeles and… More
https://youtu.be/LvAOhaz_izw Read our full platform here: Community not Cops - Dignity in Schools Special thanks to our colleagues and comrades over at Critical Exposure for co-producing this video! More
Check out these very important subjects this week. The first is a podcast from the good folks over at The Red Nation American Indian boarding schools w/ Denise Lajimodiere Anishnaabe artist… More
Week 2: #WaterCoolerConversation Hechinger Report: Why Black families have found some benefits in distance learning NY Daily News: Spend more on kids, less on cops Song:
Field Organizer Job Announcement - Applications Due August 23rd The Field Organizer works collaboratively with the DSC national Coordinating Committee (made up of representatives from member organizations located across the country), campaign members and DSC staff. In… More
#WaterCoolerConversations will be a weekly dose of two articles (can be videos, audio/podcasts, etc) that we encourage you to check out and talk with each other about! Come back every Thursday for your next dose! This week: More
This Saturday, on the anniversary of the largest Police-Free Schools march in New York City history, join us to demand Police-Free Schools now. We have the opportunity to make police-free schools a reality in NYC. The fate of school policing… More
In the midst of a historical presidential and vice- presidential election - Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities are still plagued with economic, education, housing, safety and health inequities fueled by systemic racism for communities of color, the pandemic has highlighted… More
About the film: CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against… More
Download the ebook here. Shout out to Noname Book Club (nonamebooks.com) for the plug! From Verso: Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how… More