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For Immediate Release, 9/15/08 “No Child Left Behind…Bars” Youth Summit at San Joaquin Delta College (Stockton, CA)
The ESPINO (Escuelas Si! Pintas No!) Youth Organizing Summit “No Child Left Behind…Bars” has been scheduled for Friday, October 3rd at San Joaquin Delta College’s Atherton Auditorium. The purpose of the summit is to help facilitate the building of a stronger multicultural youth movement in the Central Valley. The goals of the summit are: · To discover the power that young people have when working together. · Create a space for youth to strategize. · Explore new ways of looking at issues involving youth justice and education. · Teach and reflect on the skills and theories of organizing, use of action research, how to use media, artistic expression and popular education as tools for youth organizing. · Present tools and resources to help build networks and identify current ongoing efforts. · Link grass-roots struggle to changing current systems and policies. The event will begin with featured speakers Nina Moreno and Derrel Myers of the Children’s Defense Fund. Ms. Moreno will present “America’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline.” Derrel Myers will speak on the “Power of Building Communities.” The summit will breakout into three interactive workshop sessions. The first will tackle the issues surrounding education equity. The second breakout session will deal with issues of incarceration and youth prisons. The final breakouts will focus on avenues for making social change. These will include journalism, lawmaking, community activism, digital media production and distribution and spoken word artistic expression with the overriding theme of building communities. The event will culminate with a culture jam of music, spoken word, comedy and dance hosted by Tama Brisbane of With Our Words (WOW). WOW has recently returned from the Brave New Voices spoken word event in Washington D.C. where seven Stockton youth competed with 450 spoken word artists in a nation wide poetry slam. Confirmed Summit presenters include: Phyllis Taub Greenleaf, author of I’d Rather be Learning, How Standard Testing is Leaving Learning Behind; Samuel Nunez will present the program El Joven Noble y Cara y Carazon, (The Noble Young Man & Face & Heart); Tama Brisbane and With Our Words (WOW) Performance Collective. An additional workshop will focus on voter registration and upcoming State Initiatives that will impact youth, including the Runner Initiative, Proposition 6. This event is sponsored by the California Fund for Youth Organizing (CFYO) of the Tides Foundation, with partners ESPINO, Youth in Focus, Fathers and Families of San Joaquin, Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin, Migrant Education of the San Joaquin County Office of Education, and San Joaquin Delta College’s Associated Student Body Government, Puente and M.E.Ch.A clubs. For information on participating in this exciting event, send e-mail to Jim Walsh, Summit Coordinator, jwprod1956@clearwire.net, or call (209) 981-0544. You may also contact Sammy Nunez, samuelnunez@msn.com, or call (209) 444-5511. ###
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