“We ALL Can Do It,” by soirart.
I identify as a woman, but I move through the world not only as a woman, but also as a white woman, a woman from a middle-class family, an American woman, an able-bodied woman, and a young woman (I could go on). These identities, many of them granting me daily privileges in society, make my experience as a woman vastly different from the experiences of other women.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 30, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/5-requirements-for-white-allies-of-feminists-of-color/
AFROPUNK has come and gone leaving shards of cowry shells and trampled kente cloth blowing in the breeze around Commodore Barry Park. Now that we’ve put away our gold and washed off our blue lipstick, we here at Progressive Pupil can’t thank you all enough for your support on the success of Activism Row.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 27, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/a-toast-to-activism-row/
Being in the streets and not following the rules can put you behind bars at a young age. Let’s reduce the harsh discipline! – image and message by Margaret Grilliam.
This past April, Progressive Pupil partnered with Girls for Gender Equity on an Image Voice Workshop that sought to reimagine “school pushout” through photography. Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is a Brooklyn-based organization that works to promote the physical, psychological, social and economic well-being of girls and women through coalition building and youth development programming that educates and empowers young women to question the status quo. Led by Nefertiti Martin, community organizer for GGE and Progressive Pupil’s lead organizer, Dr. Robin Hayes, GGE’s motivated group of young women found a space to express their conflicted feelings around the punitive practice of rampant suspensions and expulsions for “bad” behavior in their high schools.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 23, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/girls-for-gender-equity-2/
What came first, the chicken or the egg? In this age-old saying, the question implies that there cannot be a chicken, without having been hatched in an egg first. But there also cannot be an egg, without a chicken laying it. The same question can be applied to school cops. Which came first, school cops or school violence? It can be argued that school cops are a response to student violence. However, it can also be argued that student violence is a result of school cop presence. This debate is a very controversial issue at the moment and is extremely relevant to our schools today.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 23, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/school-to-prison-pipeline-what-effect-are-school-cops-having-on-students/
Voto Latino has provided Activism Row with online tools to help AFROPUNK attendees to register to vote in this year’s general election. You can register by visiting their site.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 20, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/support-voto-latino-at-activism-row/
For four decades Black Panther Party members Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were held in solitary confinement at the infamous Angola prison in Louisiana. Wallace, Woodfox, and Robert Hillary King have become known as ‘The Angola 3,’and were all separately convicted of armored robbery in 1971 and sent to Angola prison.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 19, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/the-solitary-lives-of-the-angola-3/
Progressive Pupil is teaming up with AFROPUNK FEST 2014 to co-curate Activism Row because #ActivismLives. You can support this informative, interactive and educational opportunity (and get rock star perks) by making a contribution and sharing the link to its crowdfunding campaign with your friends, family and colleagues.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 18, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/3392/
James Lawson arrested on May 24, 1961. Photo courtesy of breachofpeace.com
A recent blockbuster film, The Butler, is about an African American man, Cecil Gaines, who serves eight presidents during his career as a White House Butler. The film takes place during a time of national unrest, covering such topics as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. One of the most difficult scenes to watch is when Cecil’s son has volunteered to join the Nashville Student Movement at the Woolworth’s counter sit-in in 1960. These brave students chose to sit at an all-White counter and ask for service at a time when most everything in the town of Greensboro, North Carolina was segregated. In preparation for this movement, students were forced to practice nonviolent resistance. As shown in the film, the students are taught how to remain peaceful while being verbally and physically harassed by their peers. These sit-ins will forever be a landmark in the civil rights protests of the 1950s and 1960s.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 14, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/the-nonviolent-resistance-movement/
Progressive Pupil is teaming up with AFROPUNK FEST 2014 to co-curate Activism Row because #ActivismLives. You can support this informative, interactive and educational opportunity (and get rock star perks) by making a contribution and sharing the link to its crowdfunding campaign with your friends, family and colleagues.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 11, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/support-activism-row-at-afropunk/
Chicago is well-known for being a beautiful city, its wind chill, and being the home of the great Michael Jordan. The city of Chicago is also well-known for being extremely dangerous in many areas. Like many large cities, there is a major problem with juvenile delinquency and there is a need to address it. Every day there are more and more organizations, both new and old working to change the system that is more punitive and less rehabilitative than it should be when dealing with youth.
Posted by Progressive Pupil on August 9, 2014
https://progressivepupil.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/the-restorative-justice-of-project-nia/
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Watch this award-winning documentary that follows street-smart Ivy League students as they adventure to Cuba, whose population is 60% Black.
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