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Keeping the conversation going on race relations helps build understanding for human relations. The Global Citizen 365 Beer Summit, is an open platform fostering the relationship building between diverse cultures. Racism is not a black and white issue, racism is a human relations issue and concern of various cultures which were represented at the successful beer summit.
i enjoy attending these conversations for i always learn something new about people from different cultures. i also enjoy debunking the derogatory myths put on people of color through open conversations on stereotypes and life experiences. Global Citizen 365 Beer Summit opened with Mr. Todd Bernstein informing those of us in attendance about the purpose and need for continued conversation on race relations. The beer summit allows people to relax and get to know each other in efforts to bring healing and understanding for diverse cultures.
The evenings' facilitators were Ms.Sarah Halley and Pamela Freman founders of Play Back For Change Philadelphia. Under the facilitators directions we started the conversations by pairing up and allowing each five minutes to discuss why we attended the beer summit and how we feel about racism. When the five minutes were up the listener told the speaker what we heard from the speaker. Then some of us shared with all in attendance what we gained from the conversation. i conversed with photographer Robert Bueding and learned that when we share our life stories we find that we have so much in common. i expressed to Robert that i would like to be seen as a human being and erase the forefathers notion of people of color being seen as property and having no human rights. When the evening ended Robert and i had exchanged emails and hope to be able to connect in the future at the Ethic Society.
After the one on one conversations we were asked to get into a group of four and discuss what is something we can commit to around race and what is something a group can do. The response from those in attendance ranged from hosting a block party to get to know your neighbors to various artist informing their projects. Tieshka Smith invited all in attendance to her Racism is A Sickness Photo shoot. Walking Civics, Inc. director Cole Kleitsch 908.420.9463, shared with us a project to get seventeen year olds' active in the voting process by teaching them how to set the voting machines and Troy Brooks shared his 1st Annual Father & Son dinner, August 29th at the Teppanyaki Grill, for more info contact Troy at 215.384.3362.
With the aid of media both mainstream and social, human relations are shaping into positive relationships and understanding for differences. If you are white and would like to be part of the evolution please consider joining Whites confronting Racism and their next training.
HOW TO RACE BAIT
Our world is not what we think it is. This opened my eyes. Absolutely incredible! Grab your copy of PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE USA audiobook (free): http://www.audibletrial.com/mcThank you Matthew Cooke for one of the most powerful videos I've ever seen. Everyone needs to watch this.
Posted by Filming Cops on Tuesday, August 4, 2015
i will not allow you to put us against each other
willie lynch
i will not allow you to justify destroying public education
arne duncan
i will not sit idle and pretend
barack obama
i will take a stand
for Atlanta's Teachers, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden and Sandra Bland
i will ignite
our rights as we continue the fight for our
FREEDOM
outrageous is the damage being caused to our communities over the reform of public education aka the dismantling of public education. privatizing of public resources is the worst thing to every evolve in our time. so i'm hoping to rebuild communities by showing the truth behind the privatizing and mandatory testing take place across the country. we the most vulnerable in our communities have a voice and i'm looking to make sure our voice is heard and we end the scams being played on our communities by those who choose not to connect with us simply because they need us but don't want to recoginze the African and Latino Communities as Human.
i'm a nanna, my babies won't be in the public school system this year, maybe as pre-school, hopefully!! i'm looking to produce a show with parents from African and Latino culture. there is a need to end the frustrations going on in our communities with public education. i have spoke to parents of district and charter schools and nothing much has changed, in fact both district and charter schools are now being attacked by standardized test and this creates a need for parents to unite and demand an end to this testing maddness. demand an end to the destruction of public school. our schools are taking molding students to another level and trying to create human robots. i know we can come together and stop the destruction of creative, exploratory learning. one size has never fit all and way to many of us are dying or sitting behind bars because of dreams denied.
Hi Parents, i've been blogging to you with hopes that you get more involved in the educational growth of your students in public schools. Parents play a big role in the success of their families, schools and communities. Parents are needed on every level and this is why i'm focused on getting more parents involved in ending the dismantling of public education. Parents in public schools are guided under title 1. Title 1 states that parents are suppose to have say in the schools budget, curriculum and staff but we all know that power hungry principals have done whatever they can to keep parents separated and out of the school house.
Education is all about learning how to navigate in our society as safe productive citizens. Public school was created to give low income families an opportunity to create a life for themselves. Corporate America felt that public education was needed so that they would have a better workforce. Now corporate is trying to turn public schools into slave producing robots. Corporate America is stealing the power of public school parents. Parents please get more involved and learn your rights and what your role can be at the public school house.
Recently the Waldron Mercy Academy (a catholic school, where tuition is $11,500 to $13,250) fired one of their best teachers because the teacher married the same sex. parents are upset with and protested the school decision so much that the school shut down their facebook page. Parents have demanded the reinstating of the teacher or they will pull their students out of the school. Alumni have also demanded the reinstating of the teacher and will pull their funding if the educator is not re-hired. Parents i use this example of how parents are the most powerful in the world of education. This is a private school that can legally set their rules even if those rules discriminate, yet the parents and alumni are changing the rules and tradition of the school with their demands.
Parents of public schools we must do the research about what is going on in public schools. We don't have to settle for what our U.S., State and Local governments want to dictate to us as learning facilities. President Obama hired businessmen to create education policy, not educators like we have in Pennsylvania Secretary of Education. Corporate America wants slaves and that is why President Clinton sent most of our jobs overseas for sweatshop labor.
A Good Parent Is A Caring Parent
Parents i know some of us come from stressful conditions. i know the stress and this is why i advocate for us to unite and support one another in our life's journey. We don't have to pay $11,500 to $13,500 for our youth to receive great education. We do need to be involved on every level in the public school house. The same energy that parents in private schools put into their school house can be replicated by parents in public school houses. Funding is part of the solution, Parent participation is the Key to the SUCCESS FOR OUR STUDENTS FREEDOM. THE MORE WE KNOW THE MORE WE GROW!! THE FAMILY THAT LEARNS TOGETHER, EARNS TOGETHER!!
Parents Black and White
We Have To Unite
Public Education is being attacked
Parents we are missing from this fight
We Cannot Go Back
Freedom Is Our Sight
Parents We Are Up to Bat
Education Should Be Our Human Right
Parents divided let's defeat that tactic
District and Charter School Standardize Test Scores Were Cut Over Night
Parents Teachers Partnership equal a strong PAC
With Local Control We Can Ignite
Parents lets learn the facts
Create our kites for
Education that gives life
Stop the rape on the most
vulnerable backs
Parents Let's Take a Bite
Out Of Corporates and Arne Duncan Hypes
Parents We Must Unite
Demographics and Desires
With All Our Might
Parents WE REALLY NEED To Unite
Parents please know that public education is under attack and some of our elected officials are invested in building prison communities versus safe productive residential communities. Our schools have been set up to fail because education is freedom and for some reason some members of our society need to feel superior to others. limiting educational growth allows those who want to be superior the power to believe they are superior when in actuality they are oppressor. Our communities are being destroyed and the most damaging attack is closing public schools. For closing the school house closes resources that support growth of safe productive residential communities.
Parents we all want the best for our families. In obtaining the best for our families let's understand who we are partnering with and if that partnership is worth the gain. The School District of Philadelphia is under the direction of outsiders, people who could care less about Philadelphians or our future. More than anything that needs to change, we as parents and educators should be creating the direction of our public school houses. The School District of Philadelphia works for the citizens of Philadelphia, we have the power to fire those who do not work in our best interest.
The School District of Philadelphia under state control School Reform Commission has set out to destroy our community schools and set the school houses that were closed up to fail. Then misled parents with the development of charter schools. The original purpose of charter schools were to test different teaching methods in low performing school districts. If those teaching methods were able to educate the demographics then the methods would be incorporated into the public school system. New Orleans is now going back to the original intent of charter schools and their experimental teaching methods. http://forpubliced.blogspot.com/2015/02/charterschool-wars-learning-from.html
As a parent advocate i began advocating for resources for our schools. i volunteer in our schools because i believe that the school house is an extension of my home. we as parents educate our youth and look to educators to assist us in educating our youth. volunteering in the school house is the difference between great schools and failing schools. School budgets have always been limited, so the partnership between home and school is vital in advocating for the needs of our school house.
The charter school movement grew out of the frustration of parents and advocates who begged the school districts to provide our communities with developmentally appropriate learning facilities. The administrators ignored us for several reasons, the main reason being they were not capable of relating to the most vulnerable members of our society, their expectations for the most vulnerable has always been low. Charter schools took away the funds to provide the resources that were needed to reach the most vulnerable members of our society. Charter schools were promoted as gaining private education, gassing low income families into believing they will receive a $15 to $25,000 educational program when in actuality they were given the same educational program under private management. Charter schools don't address the needs of the demographics and are failing much like the district schools before them. We don't need fancy schools or corporate america molding the most vulnerable members of our society to slave for corporate america. We need the needs of the demographics to be addressed. We need educational opportunities that allow our students and teachers to explore and learn, not be treated as robots. Education is a human right and we should get that in law.
Parents our educators are also under attack. There is a movement to eliminate teachers from public education and have all students learning online. No surprise that the Obama administration is bragging that residents of public housing will enjoy free Internet service. They had to give the service for free so that this vulnerable community has no excuse for not using the online school platform. Teachers are going to jail, totally stressed out for the lack of control of their teaching spaces and some have committed suicide. Parents we need our teachers, we have to unite and demand public education for all our families. I read some heartbreaking post on facebook about how teachers have to hold their pee:
Janet Bergan VanLone Pregnancy adds a whole new dimension to this!
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Michelle V Carasco I will walk to the restroom as soon as the bell rings. The students can wait at the door. I simply lock it because I'm not responsible for them until they enter my room. I used to be at the mercy of available peers. I got tired of near accidents and staining my clothes . Teachers are too passive and administration doesn't appreciate our sacrifices.
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Camilla Spadafino Now our bathroom habits will be discussed and there's no end to the humiliation
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Stephanie Casella Brennan I also have to go every hour, and we have hour-long block classes. I will have my kids lined up at the door right before the bell rings, usher them out, lock the door, race to bathroom, race back. .and I'm lucky the bathroom is a quick walk (shuffle qu...See More
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Earlier this month, the PA Department of Education announced that the number of students passing the Pennsylvania System of Student Assessment (PSSA) test is significantly lower than last year. That is because the test was changed last year to reflect assessment of the new academic standards implemented in 2013 (PA’s version of Common Core). To read the letter from the PA Secretary of Education, Pedro Rivera, please click here.
I am writing to inform you that we anticipate West Chester scores to be significantly lower than last year, as well. Typically our scores are among the highest in the state, and I expect them to remain high relative to state averages. However, the state anticipates that 70% of its 8th grade students will not be considered proficient in math and 41% of its 4th grade students will not be proficient in Reading. Here is a table summarizing information released by the PA Department of Education:
Percentage of Students Scoring Basic or Below Basic on PSSA (i.e. they did not pass the test!)
Grade
Reading 2013-14
% failed
English/Language Arts (formally known as Reading) 2014-15
% failed
Math
2013-14
% failed
Math
2014-15
% failed
3
29.7
27.9
24.9
51.5
4
31.1
41.4
23.7
55.5
5
39.4
38.0
22.8
57.2
6
35.5
40.2
28.0
60.2
7
27.9
41.4
23.3
66.9
8
20.4
41.7
26.4
70.1
When we do receive results, we will release them to our community along with our interpretation of these assessments. We anticipated the test scores to be lower due to the changes in the test, but we did not expect the PSSA to reflect as drastic a change as what has been reported by the state.
While the PSSA has been one measure of assessing student progress in PA since 1999. I believe the number of tests and the time we are devoting to them is excessive, and the manner in which the state is using them is often not helpful or fair. We need to continue to work with our legislators to make changes. I am working to do that and will continue to send our school community communications about those efforts.
Thanks for everyone’s time and patience as we navigate yet another change to our state assessment system.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jim Scanlon
Superintendent, West Chester Area School District
Left-Right Alliance for Education
We oppose the CCSSI because it continues the failed education reforms of the past and violates privacy rights as it builds a system for centrally managed student training for the future workforce of the “Global Economy.” This central goal will dismantle liberal arts education, which most contributes to the development of mature thinkers who are prepared to thrive in any chosen life path and sustain a free civilization. http://www.lrallianceforeducation.org/p/common-opposition-on-common-core.html
Philadelphia is addressing blight and crime by revitalizing stressed communities with community gardens and green space. i have been learning the process of acquiring vacant land and hope to assist in building community with the knowledge i have acquired from The Public Interest Law Center, PHS, Soil Generation and other gardening groups. Pictured is a community garden in Strawberry Mansion on my families block, if you look in the background you can see vacant lots, one in which my family has been squatting on for about 15 years and another growing grass as high as our crops.
Those vacant lots have become a topic of conversation for us residing on Natrona St.. i shared the information about acquiring the land with neighbors and they are very interested in learning more about ownership and growing their own food for there is a waiting list to get a bed in the community garden with East Park Revitalization. Learning about the waiting list was music to my ears for building community via community gardens can be a long process, the demand of the waiting list gives me an edge in establishing community gardens.
i'm in the process of researching the vacant lots and preparing a presentation to share with the community about what i have learned about the lots and what our options are. after sharing this info i hope to get the community invested in the planning process of what we would like to do with the vacant lots. do we want to start a community garden or market farm? do we just want green space? what type of zoning are we in and will need for our green space/community garden? what do each of us bring to the community building project? thankfully we have the public interest law center who works pro bono to assist communities and homeowners with legally acquiring vacant land if we have any complications.
Acquiring Vacant Land 101 Video
there are so many great resources in Philadelphia that look to assist community gardens and a land bank will be operating soon as the go to place for acquiring vacant land for community use. one of the benefits of the land bank is that community can become owners of property in their community and may not have to pay back taxes and penalties some of the lots may have.
Powerful experience yesterday on Venice Island!! My grandson and i attended Living History Hertiage Project and learned some of our cultural history from Mother Harriett Tubman and A Slave Man before we had to leave for Hoodstock where we was given a book about Mother Tubman.
Mother Tubman passed on some great information about her life. Mother Tubman knew at a young age that she wanted to be free. Mother Tubman shared with us how her faith was the one thing the slave master could not take from her. Mother Tubman faith and life lessons is what guided her underground railroad. On one of Mother Tubman return trips to the south, she had bought two chickens and was on her way home when she saw the slave master she had fled from walking up the street. She held her head down and looked to her faith to direct her then released the chickens. Running after those chickens allowed Mother Tubman to run pass the slave master without being noticed. Mothers' Tubman faith allowed her to endure, with courage and bravery.
i recently held an education forum with parents, educators, students, advocates and concerned citizens in Strawberry Mansion with the goal of empowering parents. During the forum Ms. Ruth Birchett spoke about her experience as a resident of Strawberry Mansion and an educator in the Strawberry Mansion community. Ms. Birchett and her son attended Fredrick Douglas elementary school where she now teaches. In sharing her experience with us Ms. Birchett continued to refer to the school house as Fredrick Douglas although the schoolhouse was setup to fail and taken over by Young Scholars which also failed and illegally transferred the school to Mastery Charter School.
Mother Tubman spoke of Fredrick Douglas and how a member of the Slave Master family was teaching Fredrick Douglas to read. One day the Slave Master walked into the reading lesson and put a halt to the session, demanded Fredrick Douglas leave the room. Fredrick Douglas left the room and stood at the door to listen to the conversation. The Slave Master spoke against educating the salve said that you cant' educate slaves, education doesn't make them fit to be slaves. After hearing these words Fredrick Douglas knew that to be free from the Master, he had to be educated and found ways to gain education.
After hearing the story of Fredrick Douglas i felt confirmed with my advocacy to save public education. i learned that the conductors of the underground railroad are those caring people in our communities who stand up to injustice and do what we can do to lead our people to freedom. Fredrick Douglas was set up to fail by his Master, but found a way to gain education. The school house named after Fredrick Douglas has been set up to fail so underground railroad conductors Ruth Birchett and Jacqueline Wiggins is working to empower parents and hold these institutions accountable and demand transparency.
Underground Rail Road Conductors Ruth Birchett and Jacqueline Wiggins informing us of what is going on at Fredrick Douglas elementary school.
The setting of a storm coming and a black man in chains yelling for his friends, frightened my four year old grandson. So we had to exit the venue. I will have the conversation with Aiden, about his fears and hope that he understands that fear can keep him from becoming a slave.
Those PSSA's and Keystone Test Scores, You know those nothing test that WE The Caucus of Working Educators have been screaming about for the past year, You know the Test That our Public Education has become All That The School Is Suppose To Teach, Those Test That Stress our YOUTH Out because the school was NOT PROPERLY FUNDED thus our students weren't prepared, yeah those TEST SCORES WERE CUT IN HALF BY THE STATE BOARD OF PENNSYLVANIA and Parents you should be outraged at the setup to fail school to prison pipeline that is manifesting via public education.
Parents Black and White
We Have To Unite
Public Education is being attacked
Parents we are missing from this fight
We Cannot Go Back
Freedom Is Our Sight
Parents We Are Up to Bat
Education Should Be Our Human Right
Parents divided let's defeat that tactic
District and Charter School Standardize Test Scores Were Cut Over Night
Parents Teachers Partnership equal a strong PAC
With Local Control We Can Ignite
Parents lets learn the facts
Create our kites for
Education that gives life
Stop the rape on the most
vulnerable backs
Parents Let's Take a Bite
Out Of Corporates and Arne Duncan Hypes
Parents We Must Unite
Demographics and Desires
With All Our Might
Parents WE REALLY NEED To Unite
#parentsunite do we know what is going on with public education? why do we not have more local control over the schools that are funded with our tax dollars? with friends like these by Ken Derstine we learn from his research the business of public education versus the community control of public education. Why Should We As Parents have concerns for who is running our schools?
Eric Becoats in 2010. Becoats resigned from two previous jobs after reports surfaced of his misuse of public resources, the Daily News has learned. ( Courtesy of JOHN ROTTET / The News and Observer )
Why Shouldn't We Have Those Concerns Is My Questions? Public Education is under attack Parents, and if Parents don't step up NOW, I Mean Right NOW we will lose one of the greatest public resources ever. District and Charter Schools are under attack with the aid of boogee black people who look down on black people from low income and vulnerable communities. i remember attending a parent meeting at the district, when one of our parent advocates who had recently been raped in jail, started having a break down. the district officials wanted to call the police on this parent versus talk to her and get her some mental counseling. this parent advocate wasn't being arrested that evening because myself and other parents stood by her and shamed the district for their inability to connect with our most vulnerable parents. Parents we need accountability and transparency in the district, we want an end to the back door deals that leave us out of the planning and implementation of our school district. Parents if you agree, please call your city council members and ask them if corrupt personnel is acceptable for our tax dollars. Ask your city council members to amend future budgets with detailed line items and descriptions of how the district plans to spend the money and who the district plans to hire with our tax dollars. We don't want Con Artist working our school budgets as they have worked and destroyed previous school budgets.
Parents we need to know that the new ECAA Every Child Achieves Act was designed by corporate America, the people in our U.S. Government under President Barack Obama have no EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND WORK FOR CORPORATE AMERICA. I'm not going back to SLAVE DAYS, EDUCATION IS FREEDOM AND OUR FREEDOM IS BEING DENIED With CORPORATE REFORM.
Parents We Have To Learn The Facts Empower Each Other and Take A Stand For What We Want In Public Education. WE ARE IN THE CRISIS #stopcommoncore #optout #parentshaverights
Please visit The Caucus of Working Educators site and learn more about your rights to opt out of nothing test and the movement to unite parents and teachers demanding an end to teaching to the test. We want our students to be able to explore and learn not become robots to a test.
Strawberry Mansion Education Forum where the truth is revealed about the dismantling of public education
The Crime Against Human Nature is the ISSUE and CONCERN for those of us residing in African and Latino American Communities. We are human beings who live productive lives with the best we have. i would love to see what the force continuum is for the Sick'em Team, i mean the Dick'em Team, Ooops the Narcotics team aka part of the Rape of The Black Community IN LIVING COLOR.
Art For Justice
We want the rape of our communities to end and that starts with the removal of Officers who use excessive force and have a record of doing so. Please read, sign and share MoveOn Petition Amending United Nations Treaties To End Drug Prohibition http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/amend-un-treaties-to?source=c.fwd&r_by=741743 if our country wanted to end folks using drugs they would stop promoting drug use on t.v., shopping malls and public transportation.
i pull my hair with the memory of Raid Officers jumping out on our young men slamming them up against the wall and grinding on their ass as they talk shit to them. The Narcotics Policing is dehumanizing because these Officers look at the men and women whom they abuse as bait for their mentality.
Tyree Carroll getting beat down and family, friends, advocates and concerned citizens speak out
Sandra Bland didn't understand how she was killed for switching lanes without a signal, No Narcotics Officers here, but now the Walling Police are reporting that Sandra had drugs in her system.
STOP THE MADDNESS
so back to my question of when is force necessary? Tyree Carroll did what the Officers asked him to do and they still used force. we were first told that Tyree was riding his bike down the street in which his family resides, when the officers approached him. These officers have a record of excessive violence, was probably following and taunting Tyree and made Tyree another example of their excuse to beat a black man down. Tyree doesn't get home safe on April 3, 2015 because he is a target for the so called Narcotics Patrol, they zoom through the streets eager to jump out. Tyree is screaming for his Grandmother, doesn't look as if he is resisting arrest until his life flashes before him while in a choke hold. There was no reason for Tyree to have been punched, choked and kicked. something is very wrong with these dehumanizing tactics. we as a community have to step up and stop the excuse to beat and kill people of color by law enforcement agencies. the school district just hired criminals to run our schools, people with proven track records of corruption. people of color who care nothing bout people of color for they look down on us the most vulnerable members of society. we as a community have to wake up and gain control over our communities. town watch is great when we all participate.
Nancy Carroll, Tyree’s grandmother says: “Where is the accountability? The police boast of running anti-bullying campaigns in the schools but what kind of example is this to our children when they protect the dangerous bullies on their own staff? I want justice in the beating of my grandson. I want those officers named and off the police force. ”
“The public has a right to know, not just these names but all of the names of the officers involved. It is an issue of public safety. How can we be confident to walk on our own streets when these men are roaming around?” said Ebony Carroll, Tyree’s sister.
Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, says that “the police are flipping the script by describing the beating as part of a drug arrest, in fact this is an attempt at character assassination to cover up their racial profiling and brutality. Despite police claims that it was a ‘drug arrest’, in police testimony at a hearing on the case, police also said they did not see any exchange of drugs and that he was riding his bike the wrong way down a one way street – it happened to be the street where his grandmother Nancy Carroll lives.”
The Justice for Tyree Campaign are family members and supporters in Philadelphia and around the country who have come together to press for Justice for Tyree Carroll.
Demands:
·The immediate release of Mr. Tyree Carroll’s medical records from the hospital after the beating, as well as any prison medical records since the beating, to the family and to the Justice for Tyree Campaign.
·A doctor of the family’s choosing and independent of the prison system examine Mr. Carroll immediately, including taking X-rays that would show any injuries sustained by the beating.
·Mr. Carroll must be immediately released from prison.
·The city to make available and cover the cost of counseling for Mr. Carroll and other family members and loved ones of their choosing to help them deal with the trauma from the entire incident.
·The 26 Philadelphia police officers involved in the beating and/or present at the scene be identified and publicly named, investigated for previous incidents, placed on leave without pay immediately, and be fired.
·The Chief of Police step down.
·The US Department of Justice begins an immediate investigation into the beating.
·The Mayor, the District Attorney, City Council, and District representatives in Congress issue strong and clear statements that such police brutality, illegality and racism is no longer tolerated and will be investigated.
·In order to facilitate her participation in all proceedings, the city must fast-forward Nancy Carroll's (Mr. Carroll’s grandmother's) request for city assistance with transportation, including help getting down her front stairs. She is in a wheelchair yet must apply to three different agencies to get access to the city’s program to assist with transportation for people with disabilities in order to possibly leave her home if other family members aren't available to assist.
·A guarantee of no retaliation by any law enforcement or any other government agencies against people in the community who took the videos of the beating and that they can come forward without fear of intimidation, retaliation or criminalization. They should be designated as a protected class.
·Similarly, there must be a guarantee of no retaliation against Mr. Carroll, the family and people involved in the Justice for Tyree Campaign by police, prison guards or authorities.
·The Mayor and other city and law enforcement officials meet with the Justice for Tyree Campaign to discuss implementation of these demands.
·The City establish a reparations fund, similar to one established in Chicago, for victims of police brutality.
CONTACTS: Margaret Prescod 323-646-1269 (National Coordinator, Justice for Tyree Campaign); Phoebe Jones (Crossroads Women’s Center and member of Germantown Friends Meeting, Justice for Tyree Campaign) 215-848-1120 or cell 610-505-4944; Dorothy Roberts (U Penn Law Professor, a campaign spokesperson) 215-573-2155
District and Charter School Standardize Test Scores Were Cut Over Night
Parents Teachers Partnership equal a strong PAC
With Local Control We Can Ignite
Parents lets learn the facts
Create our kites for
Education that gives life
Stop the rape on the most
vulnerable backs
Parents Let's Take a Bite
Out Of Corporates and Arne Duncan Hypes
Parents We Must Unite
Demographics and Desires
With All Our Might
Parents WE REALLY NEED To Unite
From Parent Tonya Bah: Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
How will the answer to these questions measure understanding of fundamentals, prepare young adults for the work place, encourage pursuing higher education or benefit a future Blue Collar Worker that drives a bus, or an Entrepreneur that owns and operates a book store?
Exactly!
It won't, can't and doesn't!
Insane right, yeah it is, especially if this type of questioning is considered in any way worthy of a pass or fail grade that results in a High School Student not receiving a DIPLOMA.
Can you believe this $*%¿?
Trying real hard to keep this clean.
A student, not receiving a High school diploma because of this style of questioning on three exams sure as hell won't make securing employment any easier.
So...
Every Orientation, every Open house, every Community meeting, and of course City planned event, is another opportunity for us (citizens with sanity)
to bring nonsense like this to the forefront and to the attention of VOTERS like you and I.
How about this....insist that Standardized testing and it's ramifications be added to the discussion when anyone ask for your vote and or support.
How on earth can this form of "blatant criminal intent" against our Public School Students, not be relevant to our community's future!?
Join me in voicing our position, and together with popcorn and signs, "Refuse the test, More than a score, Opt out Philly!" (I love signs and T-shirts) watch elected officials stutter, evade, redirect, stumble and fall as they try to side step this issue at their Community meetings. Tell them their vocal opposition of or literature against Standardized testing will equal your vote.
I agree with Jessie
Knowing who "NOT" to vote for can be just as important on election day.
T.Bah
Member of,
Concerned Citizens for Change
Working Educators
35Th District Townwatch
Hope to see you Saturday, September 12th for the
35th Police District's "Unity Day" Broad and Champlost
My friend Ken Derstine blogs in depth on the break down on public education. Ken names those behind the dismantling and how they are playing with our future with charter school schemes and teaching to the test. You can read his blog at this link http://www.defendpubliceducation.net/
Why did 26 police officers feel the need to beat unarmed Tyree Carroll? Hearing Tyree scream for his grandmother is proof that Tyree was scared for his life. The police say he was resisting arrest, do you see him resisting? The police say he had crack cocaine on him, do you see the police ask him about crack cocaine, search his pockets for crack cocaine? Dehumanizing is what saying he had crack on him is. If he had crack on him did he deserve to be beat? like crack addicts are also considered not human and that mentality needs to change.
The Dehumanizing of people of color mentality is deeply ingrained in the American culture and is evident in the creation of the constitution and the denial of human rights to people of color. Not being able to accept cultural difference created the scavenger and less then me mentality of Europeans who came to this country because they were being persecuted for exercising their freedom to be them.
Untold trauma in the white community is rarely discussed. White on white trauma is what stopped our country from becoming united with people of color. There are untold stories of slave revolts and the fear white slave owners had acquired, so they used divide and conquer tactics to control their slaves. You can learn more about these untold stories in Germantown/Mt. Airy resident Phillip Seitz book "Slavery in Philadelphia".
in researching for this blog i was able to find so many articles on untreated trauma and race, that reflects people of color as the only ones who has to deal with trauma. there is a need to have this challenging conversation with all members of our country and stop pretending that we don't have an ugly side. one of the biggest fears that i have heard from white people is that black people will learn the truth of American history and become violent. People of color are not looked at as being able to grow and have relationship building conversation. Maybe that is part of the problem. in observing communities of people, i do see white people supporting one another which helps them grow and just the opposite in people of color. for example if we travel to Mannyunk we will see business owned by residents, if we travel through Strawberry Mansion we will see business owned by very few residents and mostly outsiders. we need to have these conversations and learn to build relationships that make our country safe for all our members.
Video showing beating of Tyree along with The Carroll family, friends, advocates and residents seeking answers
Also not all police are bad, but we are in need of some serious justice reform now, not plans that go into affect 5 to 10 years from now. Justice reform can start today with attitude adjustments towards people of color. How is it that a white man with a gun is his hand surrounded by police gets talked down and a man of color with or without a gun in his hand get shoot down? Value of life is how. Maybe if we continue to attend town watch meetings we can build human relationships with the humans who sign up to serve and protect humans who pay them and end the us and them mentality. Please sign MoveOn Petitions to End The War on Drugs
Last some of us who advocate are uncomfortable with the police and for some reason don't want to accept their presence as a reality, and don't know how to build relationships with the police and others in our society we don't agree with. reality check, the police are part of our culture our job as concern citizens is to hold the police and others accountable and transparent to the citizens they serve. during the town watch meeting one of the captains advised the community about cellphone safety and i chimed in explaining how cell phones are being snagged out of peoples hands by bike riders. the police also shared safe actives that they assist with and try to keep our youth focused on school and members of the advocacy community got beside themselves as i made my comments, went so far as to stand up poise their questions to the police then state that if they didn't have their cell phones they wouldn't be able to record the crimes against members in our community, "those cell phones keep us safe" the officer never said anything against recording videos with the cell phones he gave advice that would allow you to hold on to your cell phone so you can record. hate breeds ignorance, ignorance in advocacy sets us all back. we can't be effective change agents if hate is the foundation of our advocacy.
Between August 12 and September 12, 2012, some of LEAP’s most dedicated speakers accompanied Mexican poet Javier Sicilia's Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity from the Mexican border, through 27 U.S. cities, to Washington D.C.
Representing the 70,000 murdered and tens of thousands disappeared in Mexico since 2006, LEAP and 110 mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters of the dead and disappeared, and other victims of the war on drugs, undertook this mission to create a dialogue with the American public, with whom they shared their stories of suffering and pain throughout their journey. LEAP backed the victims’ testimony with law enforcement voices bearing personal witness to the harms and wasteful futility of the War on Drugs here in the United States. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/caravanforpeace
