DSC CA Dedicates 2023 National Week of Action to Black Love!
OUR LOVE WILL END THE SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE
Dignity in Schools Campaign California (DSC CA) is a multiracial formation informed by Black liberation politics and Black organizing traditions. As an alliance, we have centered Black organizing efforts as fundamental and necessary to our collective movement building efforts to end the school to prison pipeline. DSC CA has worked to break isolation and create peer spaces that support Black led campaigns to remove police from schools in the Inland Empire, Central Valley, Seaside and Oakland. DSC CA also convenes the Black Love & Liberation working table, a Black-led formation of nine DSC CA member organizations and fifteen members, who have been mapping and documenting Black migration stories and exploring the connections to school pushout, community displacement and gentrification. Together this group is beginning to explore the Black organizing landscape in those communities and what role DSC CA can have in supporting their organizing infrastructure. Dignity In Schools Campaign California (DSC CA) is honored to dedicate the 2023 National Week of Action to Black Love & Liberation.
BLACK LOVE & LIBERATION SOLIDARITY
During a DSC CA Statewide Convening in 2017, members discussed the impact of rapid community displacement on Black organizing and the increased criminalization inflicted on students in places Black folx were moving to. In response, DSC CA organizations and Black organizers committed to participating in a working table to address the need to better understand Black migration and Black organizing, vital pieces in our police free school movement. This space is DSC CA Black Love and Liberation. Read More
National Week of Action in CALIFORNIA
Educate! Liberate! Elevate!
Elevating Our Collective Power!
Reimagining the School System through a Community Lens
Description: During BHC’s Annual Ciclovia Event, an event was created to connect and bridge residents from across Salinas to promote Health and foster a sense of community. BHC will hold an activity booth to learn and listen from the community about issues within the school system and how it impacts families. The stories shared through various media (poetry, letters, drawings) will serve as a foundation to understand the challenges families are facing to later come together as a community and collectively identify areas of advocacy for improving the school system to work together with the school districts and dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline.
Date: 10/15/2023 |10:00 a.m.
Contact: Azucena Barrios azucenabhc@actioncouncil.org
Facebook: https://facebook.com/MontereyCountyBHC/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/montereycountybhc/?hl=en
X/Twitter: https://www.x.com/BHCMontereyCty
Uplifting Student and Parent Narratives in Central Valley
Description: The Dolores Huerta Foundation will be posting an Instagram reel Monday through Friday.
Each reel will feature DHF Vecinas’s Youth, and Staff. The topics will vary depending on the educational issues that are being faced in each chapter.
Date : October 16, 2023 | 5:00 PM
Contact: 661-554-4464
Facebook: https://facebook.com/doloreshuertafdn
Twitter: https://twitter.com/doloreshuertafdn
Instagram: https://instagram.com/doloreshuertafdn
Banned: Dr. David Covin's Inspiring Legacy
Description: The Black Parallel School Board is hosting an online interactive workshop to explore the multifaceted legacy of the late Dr. Covin.
Dr. Covin was a professor emeritus of government and Ethnic Studies at CSU, Sacramento, and co-founded several other institutions, including the Black Parallel School Board, Cooper Woodson College, the Sacramento Black Book Fair, and Sacramento’s only Black think tank, The Black Group. The workshop will focus on Dr. Covin’s work for education justice to eliminate the racist policies, and practices that have negatively impacted, “banned,” Black communities in Sacramento and beyond.
Date: October 19 | 5:00 PM
Zoom Registration
Contact: Rayvn McCullough rayvn@blackparallelschoolboard.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/sacbpsb
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sacbpsb
Instagram: https://instagram.com/sacbpsb
2023 CVMB National Week of Action Against School PushOut Webinar
Description: As part of the 2023 National Week of Action Against School Pushout, the Central Valley Movement Building (CVMB) coalition will host a webinar focused on the theme and demand, “Educate! Liberate! Elevate!”
Youth, parents, organizers, and allies in education are welcome to join us to learn more about CVMB, the School to Prison Pipeline in the Central Valley, and how we organize for Education Justice to support the police-free school movement.
Date: October 18 | 6:00 PM
Zoom Registration
Contact: Zara Carter | zara@cvmboi.org
Facebook: https://facebook.com/centravalleymb
Twitter: https://twitter.com/centravalleymb
Instagram: https://instagram.com/centravalleymb
CADRE Classroom Monitoring
Description:During the Week of Action, CADRE will continue its annual tradition of parent-led classroom observations across 20 targeted schools in South LA to gather data about classroom climates and classroom-level implementation of Positive Behavior and Intervention Support and Restorative Practices (PBIS/R). CADRE parent leaders will share observations and lessons learned to organize our allies to utilize monitoring as an important strategy for power building and accountability to the community.
Date: October 16, 2023
Contact: Edgar Ibarria / (323) 752-9997 X317
Social Media: @CADREparents
Parent Alliance Wins and Next Steps
Description: Parents will participate in a Restorative Justice circle to review the recent history and wins of the Parent Alliance, including areas of Education, Elevation, and Liberation. It will reflect on Hollister School District’s resolution 4 issue, DSC CA Parent Racial Justice Demands for Emergency Schooling During COVID19, and a power analysis of what it took to keep our after-school programs. Parents will share statements and quotes about the session’s impact on them.
Date: 10/17/2023 | 5:45pm
Contact: Jeanette Neal / jeanette@youthall.org / (831) 673-9963
Facebook: https://facebook.com/youthall
@youth4alliance
