Author Archives: aisradmin
EXCLUSIVE: City Council members want Mayor de Blasio to fix school discipline code, which they say is biased
Erin Durkin, Daily News Five council members want to end suspensions for what they call vague and poorly defined infractions that unfairly target black and Latino males. They want Mayor de Blasio to overhaul the discipline code for city schools. City Council members are pushing Mayor de Blasio to overhaul the discipline code for city
On the #FreedomSide, From BK to JXN
Keeshan Harley, 19, is a leader with Make the Road New York, living in Brooklyn. On Sunday, June 22nd, 2014, Keeshan will be heading down to Jackson, Mississippi with 50 other young people are organizers to join our national alliance, the Alliance for Educational Justice, and many more youth, civil rights groups, and our elders in the
The South Bronx Joins the Youth Movement
Samantha Gonzalez, 15, is a sophomore at the Columbus High School Campus and a Youth Leader at Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ) in the South Bronx. In August of 2013, I first heard the name Urban Youth Collaborative. I was participating in their weeklong training, the Youth Organizing Institute. For a week, I learned essential organizing