Week of Action: Ending the School-to-Prison-Pipeline Media Recap

March to End the School-to-Prison-Pipeline

Week of Action Press Conference with YOI, NC HEAT and Education Justice Alliance (EJA)

Flipagram video by NC HEAT member Tavon 

  • We made the cover of The Triangle Tribune, you can read the coverage of our press conference here.
  • “As I grew older, it became more and more apparent that they (disciplinary actions) specifically affected the students of color, especially those from low-income households. It was always the Hispanic kids or the black kids being the ones in after-school detention or the ones getting into fights,” he said.

    Ramos said suspensions infringe on a student’s ability to learn. He said this cause is about the criminalization of an entire group of people both in the streets and in schools.

  • We also got coverage on our Week of Action and School-to-Prison-Pipeline on newsobserver.com
  • “The stories of police violence in our schools and neighborhoods are too numerous to count. As young people in Wake, Durham, and Orange County public schools, we have witnessed unspeakable violence from police both on and off school grounds,” said Qasima Wideman said in the press release. “From Enloe High School students being brutalized and arrested under accusations of throwing water balloons to the family and friends of Jesus Huerta being tear gassed in the streets of Durham after he was killed while in police custody.”

  • Want to know more about actions that happened all across the country against the school-to-prison-pipeline? Check out Dignity In Schools Campaign’s Highlights!

North Carolina Students Walk Out for #DebtFreeUNC!

JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ/News & Record
  • UNCG students rally against rising college costs, debts via News & Record
  • “Democrats and Republicans in Congress, they’re keeping the system this way,” Williams said. “They put it off another year instead of finding a solution.”
  • N.C. State students protest tuition, construction, shortened library hours via INDY Week’s news blog
  • The petition calls for the board to reduce student tuition and increase financial aid incrementally, so that “the 2020 class will graduate free of debt.” It also calls for a moratorium on cuts to faculty pay and funding for departments. 
  • NC Student Power Union holds first-ever walk out via Niner Online
  • “Their meetings are usually closed. They don’t allow public forum, they don’t allow students, parents or faculty and staff to speak on these issues that affect them on a daily basis. The decisions that are being made are made in a small room, by a small group of people, and you only hear about it through the news,” said D’atra Jackson, organizing director of NC Student Power Union.

Queer Youth are on the rise!

Come celebrate with us! The NC Queer Youth Power Coalition has been selected to be a part of INDY Week’s 2014 Give!Guide. 

Sunday, November 9th from 3-8pm at Person Street Bar

Check out this video from iNSIDEoUT about how AWESOME Pride was!

Want to see more young people doing awesome queer stuff at NC PRIDE? Help support the important work that iNSIDEoUT is doing by donating to their campaign today.

Yeah, we’re gonna Get Out the Vote!

Check out Ignite NC’s video mix featuring the important work they’re doing to make sure folks get to the polls.

Click to play this Smilebox slideshow

What’s keeping us moving

We want to say a special congratulations to LGBTQ families and couples living in North Carolina and places across the country where same-sex marriage bans have been recently overturned. You can read more about what went down in North Carolina here. The struggle continues! 

Melissa Harris-Perry commemorates transformative thinker and organizer with Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, George Carter who was fatally shot last week after doing important work to make schools in New Orleans better for all students. 

#BlackLivesMatter: organizers, activists and community mobilized in Atlanta, shut down the highway and demanded that their voices be heard. 

#BlackLivesMatter demonstration on October 23rd, 2014

On the same day high school students in Berkeley were protesting police brutality

KARIN GOH/The Daily Californian

Remember the students protesting in Colorado against the whitewashing of their history classes?

The school district is now agreeing to give students and parents a voice in the curriculum review process.