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Program for Education not Incarceration Teach-in - Speak-out TOMORROW!
EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
TEACH IN / SPEAK OUT
SATURDAY MAY 1, 2004
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Oakland Tech High School
4351 Broadway near 45th Street
Near Macarthur BART and Bus Route 51
TEACH IN / SPEAK OUT
SATURDAY MAY 1, 2004
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Oakland Tech High School
4351 Broadway near 45th Street
Near Macarthur BART and Bus Route 51
Please forward widely,
EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
TEACH IN / SPEAK OUT
SATURDAY MAY 1, 2004
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Oakland Tech High School
4351 Broadway near 45th Street
Near Macarthur BART and Bus Route 51
WELCOME
10:00 A.M.
Location: Auditorium
Welcome, art and sign-making
WORKSHOPS 10:30 A.M. -12:30 P.M.
SHRINKING EDUCATION BUDGETS; RISING PRISON BUDGETS: RE-PRIORTIZING THE WAY CALIFORNIA INVESTS IN THE FUTURE
Location: Room A3, Ground Floor Auditorium Building
Throughout the state’s multibillion dollar budget crisis, education budgets have shrunk for those inside and outside prisons, while the state’s $5.3 billion prison budget has been untouched or actually risen. This session will look at the education and prison budgets, what other states have done, and we will strategize about how we can impact the budget process.
Presenters:
Ida McCray, Education Administrator, S.F. Sheriffs Department
Gary Daniels, San Quentin Teacher, SEIU/CSEA
***
WHY ARE WE CLOSING SCHOOLS INSTEAD OF PRISONS?
Location: Room A6, Ground Floor Auditorium Building
At the same time that five schools in Oakland are set for closure, and the state says it will be reducing the number of people in prison by 15,000, California is building its 34th prison at Delano. This session will discuss the proposed closure of Oakland schools, the campaign to keep them open and the effort underway by Californians United for a Responsible Budget to close California prisons.
Presenters:
Dan Siegel, President of Oakland School Board, Coalition Against Oakland School Closures
Rose Braz, Californians United for A Responsible Budget (CURB)
***
WHO MAKES THE DECISIONS? CONTROL OF EDUCATION AND PRISON SYSTEMS
Location: Room 205, Main Building, 2nd Floor
At the same time that control of the Oakland schools has been taken from the school board and given to the state appointed administrator, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed a panel to reform Corrections comprised entirely of individuals who built up and profit from the system they are now charged with reforming. This session will look at how we got to this point and grassroots organizing efforts to we take power over these decisions.
Presenters:
Cesar Cruz, West Contra Costa County organizer of the March 4 Education to Sacramento
Dorsey Nunn, Member of the "Shadow Commission" review panel on Corrections
***
TEARING DOWN BARRIERS
Location: Room 206, Main Building, 2nd Floor
Every year over 100,000 people are released from California prisons only to face enormous obstacles to finding a job, a home or education. This session will look at these barriers and discuss current strategies to tear them down.
Presenters:
Linda Evans, All of Us or None
Tommy Escarcega, Proyecto Common Touch
Renita Pitts, Women of Color Resource Center, National Radio Project
***
CRIMINALIZATION VS. EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH
Location: Room 203, Main Building 2nd Floor
California has the second highest youth incarceration rate in the US. At a cost of $385 million a year, California locks up 4,300 youth at any given time. California spends $28,000 a year to incarcerate one youth, but only $3,400 a year per Oakland student. Join the School of Social Justice in creating a budget for Oakland students at $28,000 per student.
Presenters:
Mike Molina, Books Not Bars
Kali Akuno, School of Social Justice and Community Development
***
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ZERO TOLERANCE POLICIES AND MILITARY RECRUITMENT
Location: Room 201, Main Building 2nd Floor
So-called "zero tolerance" policies and military occupations do not decrease violence and terrorism in schools, on the streets or inside prisons. While these "tough on crime" ideas are often politically popular among middle-class and white constituencies, in practice they punish low-income people of color. This session will look at how these forms of aggression-street sweeps, recruitment in schools and suspension/expulsion practices-add up to racist tracking of youth and adults of color away from education and into the most violent places on the planet, prisons or into the military. We will explore ways to resist these policies and alternative forms of resolving conflicts.
Presenters:
T.R. Amsler, Teachers for Social Justice
Malaika Parker, Police Watch
Aimara Lin, Not In Our Name Campaign Against Military Recruitment in Our Schools
ART WORKSHOPS
Hip Hop: Song Writing and Performance
Location: Auditorium
Hip Hop artist Javier Reyes of Colored Ink will lead participants in the creation of a hip hop song that the group will perform during the festival. Javier will first facilitate activities that address the issues of injustice in education and tells the story of one person who is incarcerated and how people outside the
Graffiti: Culture and Art-form
Location: Outside of Auditorium
Graffiti artists Desi and Zare of Higher Gliffs will present on the culture and history of graffiti and help participants create a mural.
YOUTH FESTIVAL, LUNCH, TABLING
12:00 Noon - 1:15 P.M.
Location: Outside Auditorium
SPEAKOUT
1:30 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Location: Auditorium
Join in testimonials, spoken word, role plays and graffitti art where we bring forth our concerns and proposed solutions.
EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
DEMANDS / SOLUTIONS:
1. Reduce the prison budget by reducing the number of people in prison. Re-invest saved funds in jobs and programs inside and outside prisons including k-12 education, higher education, re-integration of former prisoners and community-based social services. Restore control of school districts taken over by the state to democratically elected representatives. Add former prisoners and anti-prison activists to the Governor's new Independent Review Panel on corrections.
2. Don't close a single school in California. Close California Correctional Center, Susanville and Pelican Bay, Folsom State, and Valley State Prisons. Don't open the Delano II Prison. Erase school district debts to the state.
Total Funds Available from cuts to prison spending for spending on education in prison and outside*:
Prison Closures: $510 million annually
Prisoner Population Reduction: $427 million annually
Cancel Delano II: $700 million
*Based on research by Californians United for A Responsible Budget
The Education Not Incarceration Coalition
is a grassroots coalition of teachers, students, parents and concerned community members
seeking to reprioritize the way California invests in the future
away from prisons and toward education inside and outside prisons and other important social services
Please Join us at the Next Coalition Meeting:
Monday, May 10, 2004
7p.m.
The Coalition meets the 2nd & 4th Mondays
7 p.m. - 9 p.m. at Niebyl Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave. (near Alcatraz), Oakland
For More Information Go to:
http://www.ednotinc.org
or call us at 510.444.0484
EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
TEACH IN / SPEAK OUT
SATURDAY MAY 1, 2004
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Oakland Tech High School
4351 Broadway near 45th Street
Near Macarthur BART and Bus Route 51
WELCOME
10:00 A.M.
Location: Auditorium
Welcome, art and sign-making
WORKSHOPS 10:30 A.M. -12:30 P.M.
SHRINKING EDUCATION BUDGETS; RISING PRISON BUDGETS: RE-PRIORTIZING THE WAY CALIFORNIA INVESTS IN THE FUTURE
Location: Room A3, Ground Floor Auditorium Building
Throughout the state’s multibillion dollar budget crisis, education budgets have shrunk for those inside and outside prisons, while the state’s $5.3 billion prison budget has been untouched or actually risen. This session will look at the education and prison budgets, what other states have done, and we will strategize about how we can impact the budget process.
Presenters:
Ida McCray, Education Administrator, S.F. Sheriffs Department
Gary Daniels, San Quentin Teacher, SEIU/CSEA
***
WHY ARE WE CLOSING SCHOOLS INSTEAD OF PRISONS?
Location: Room A6, Ground Floor Auditorium Building
At the same time that five schools in Oakland are set for closure, and the state says it will be reducing the number of people in prison by 15,000, California is building its 34th prison at Delano. This session will discuss the proposed closure of Oakland schools, the campaign to keep them open and the effort underway by Californians United for a Responsible Budget to close California prisons.
Presenters:
Dan Siegel, President of Oakland School Board, Coalition Against Oakland School Closures
Rose Braz, Californians United for A Responsible Budget (CURB)
***
WHO MAKES THE DECISIONS? CONTROL OF EDUCATION AND PRISON SYSTEMS
Location: Room 205, Main Building, 2nd Floor
At the same time that control of the Oakland schools has been taken from the school board and given to the state appointed administrator, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed a panel to reform Corrections comprised entirely of individuals who built up and profit from the system they are now charged with reforming. This session will look at how we got to this point and grassroots organizing efforts to we take power over these decisions.
Presenters:
Cesar Cruz, West Contra Costa County organizer of the March 4 Education to Sacramento
Dorsey Nunn, Member of the "Shadow Commission" review panel on Corrections
***
TEARING DOWN BARRIERS
Location: Room 206, Main Building, 2nd Floor
Every year over 100,000 people are released from California prisons only to face enormous obstacles to finding a job, a home or education. This session will look at these barriers and discuss current strategies to tear them down.
Presenters:
Linda Evans, All of Us or None
Tommy Escarcega, Proyecto Common Touch
Renita Pitts, Women of Color Resource Center, National Radio Project
***
CRIMINALIZATION VS. EMPOWERMENT OF YOUTH
Location: Room 203, Main Building 2nd Floor
California has the second highest youth incarceration rate in the US. At a cost of $385 million a year, California locks up 4,300 youth at any given time. California spends $28,000 a year to incarcerate one youth, but only $3,400 a year per Oakland student. Join the School of Social Justice in creating a budget for Oakland students at $28,000 per student.
Presenters:
Mike Molina, Books Not Bars
Kali Akuno, School of Social Justice and Community Development
***
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ZERO TOLERANCE POLICIES AND MILITARY RECRUITMENT
Location: Room 201, Main Building 2nd Floor
So-called "zero tolerance" policies and military occupations do not decrease violence and terrorism in schools, on the streets or inside prisons. While these "tough on crime" ideas are often politically popular among middle-class and white constituencies, in practice they punish low-income people of color. This session will look at how these forms of aggression-street sweeps, recruitment in schools and suspension/expulsion practices-add up to racist tracking of youth and adults of color away from education and into the most violent places on the planet, prisons or into the military. We will explore ways to resist these policies and alternative forms of resolving conflicts.
Presenters:
T.R. Amsler, Teachers for Social Justice
Malaika Parker, Police Watch
Aimara Lin, Not In Our Name Campaign Against Military Recruitment in Our Schools
ART WORKSHOPS
Hip Hop: Song Writing and Performance
Location: Auditorium
Hip Hop artist Javier Reyes of Colored Ink will lead participants in the creation of a hip hop song that the group will perform during the festival. Javier will first facilitate activities that address the issues of injustice in education and tells the story of one person who is incarcerated and how people outside the
Graffiti: Culture and Art-form
Location: Outside of Auditorium
Graffiti artists Desi and Zare of Higher Gliffs will present on the culture and history of graffiti and help participants create a mural.
YOUTH FESTIVAL, LUNCH, TABLING
12:00 Noon - 1:15 P.M.
Location: Outside Auditorium
SPEAKOUT
1:30 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
Location: Auditorium
Join in testimonials, spoken word, role plays and graffitti art where we bring forth our concerns and proposed solutions.
EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
DEMANDS / SOLUTIONS:
1. Reduce the prison budget by reducing the number of people in prison. Re-invest saved funds in jobs and programs inside and outside prisons including k-12 education, higher education, re-integration of former prisoners and community-based social services. Restore control of school districts taken over by the state to democratically elected representatives. Add former prisoners and anti-prison activists to the Governor's new Independent Review Panel on corrections.
2. Don't close a single school in California. Close California Correctional Center, Susanville and Pelican Bay, Folsom State, and Valley State Prisons. Don't open the Delano II Prison. Erase school district debts to the state.
Total Funds Available from cuts to prison spending for spending on education in prison and outside*:
Prison Closures: $510 million annually
Prisoner Population Reduction: $427 million annually
Cancel Delano II: $700 million
*Based on research by Californians United for A Responsible Budget
The Education Not Incarceration Coalition
is a grassroots coalition of teachers, students, parents and concerned community members
seeking to reprioritize the way California invests in the future
away from prisons and toward education inside and outside prisons and other important social services
Please Join us at the Next Coalition Meeting:
Monday, May 10, 2004
7p.m.
The Coalition meets the 2nd & 4th Mondays
7 p.m. - 9 p.m. at Niebyl Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave. (near Alcatraz), Oakland
For More Information Go to:
http://www.ednotinc.org
or call us at 510.444.0484
For more information:
http://www.ednotinc.org
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