This May 2016 Huffington Post Blog from Eric Mann, Director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, details the Strategy Center’s “ferocious uphill organizing” that removed military grade weapons from Los Angeles schools (a first win) with an apology from the city to students and communities for the policy that brought the weapons to LA schools.
Link: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-mann/the-strategy-centerfinall_b_10060222.html
Black students and students of color should not have to rely on “relationships” with officers to avoid criminalization. Community policing, which recommends “relationship building” between cops and communities, exaggerates rather ... MORE
Black students and students of color should not have to rely on “relationships” with officers to avoid criminalization. Community policing, which recommends “relationship building” between cops and communities, exaggerates rather than eliminates racial disparities. In fact, Wisconsin has the second highest rates of referring Black students to law enforcement, nearly three times the national average. This is not a result of a lack of relationships, but the result of racist policies and practices. Additionally, community policing increases the surveillance and criminalization of Black people and people of color. ... MORE
Over the past 8 years, The Black Organizing Project (BOP) has organized students, families and community memebers to provide OUSD leadership with countless personal testimonies, feedback from communiyt forums, and ... MORE