ICYMI: 📰 Look back at this powerful op-ed written by Make The Road NV 🦋 activist Desiree Rodriguez & Latinos Unidos Siempre organizer Alex Sosa. We MUST invest in education NOT incarceration. "Many of us are in schools that feel like jails." hechingerreport.org/student-voices… #YouthMandate

Thanks to the Gates Foundation, we gave away 1,500 copies of PERSONAL STATEMENT to educators to use with the free #WeBelongInCollege curriculum. You can download the curriculum and other resources on the film's website: personalstatementfilm.com & access the film via @GoodDocs

Music to our ears! Young people in NYC demanding an end to racist policing policies & practices in thier school district! There is only one solution: #PoliceFreeSchools! Love to Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) Make the Road NY 🦋 Sistas&BrothasUnited & everyone leading this critical fight!

👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿📣📣📣 NYC students have been clear for years: police do not keep them safe. They have demanded time and time again, #PoliceFreeSchools and investments in young people. But the NYC Public Schools keeps playing these racist games. ENOUGH. Urban Youth Collaborative (UYC) Make the Road NY 🦋 Sistas&BrothasUnited

We don’t need police by any other name. Join Black and brown youth in the fight to reduce the size, scope, and power of the police to achieve #PoliceFreeSchools. 👮‍♀️

Black & brown young people have delivered their #YouthMandate to their government to permanently end the school-to-prison-and-deportation pipeline & build a liberatory education system based on inclusion, equity & racial justice. #CounselorsNotCops #PoliceFreeSchools

🙅🏾👮🏼‍♀️ Amidst a global pandemic and two years after the national uprising against police violence, young people need REAL supports now more than ever. We cannot continue to accept schools with more cops than counselors. #YouthMandate #PoliceFreeSchools #CounselorsNotCops

📣Black and brown youth are calling for #PoliceFreeSchools. Now, Congress has a chance to end federal $$ for police in schools and invest in education. Act NOW! ✊🏽✅Tell Congress to co-sponsor the #CounselingNotCriminalization in Schools Act: popdemoc.org/3iSvQ1X

📣TONIGHT: FLSPN Youth Power @ The Capitol Pull up to @FL Student Power's strategy call TONIGHT on Zoom @6PM EST to get into how youth will be mobilizing around climate, education, migrant, and racial justice. RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

We cannot continue to accept a society in which youth go to schools with more👮🏻 than counselors. Amidst a pandemic & in the year after the national uprising against police violence, youth need real supports now more than ever. #CounselorsNotCops #YouthMandate #PoliceFreeSchools

Black and Brown youth have called for #PoliceFreeSchools to dismantle the school-to-prison-and-deportation pipeline. Their experiences have made it clear that police do not keep them safe. Join young people in building a liberatory education system for all. 💪🏾✊🏿 #YouthMandate

We are thrilled to continue #SummerAcademicAffairs with a screening of the 2018 film Personal Statement, followed by a conversation with Christine Rodriguez and Karoline Jimenez, two students featured in the film, to discuss why #WeBelongInCollege.

Thrilled to be screening PERSONAL STATEMENT today with PGCPS at #RISEup2022 - thanks @GoodDocs! #pgcpsproud

Lovely review of PERSONAL STATEMENT: “much more than a very well-done, inspiring feature documentary film. It is also a crucial campaign. The filmmakers seek to give …students the opportunity to” go to college. marinpost.org/blog/2021/8/7/…