Rodriguez is a part of the organizing group Youth United for Change. Last summer and into the fall, YUC did some surveying of its own: administering hundreds of health questionnaires across high schools and asking classmates what they most want to see improved. Because mental health services ranked among the priorities — along with school Read more…
Representatives for Padres y Jovenes Unidos, a nonprofit that advocates for racial justice in schools, said the police would have handled the situation differently if the majority of the students were white. Click Here For Full Article
The New York Immigration Coalition filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York to compel ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to disclose information regarding Operation Matador. ICE denied a previous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. CLICK HERE FOR THE REPORT AND THE COMPLAINT
Youth organizing is more than kids meeting a few times and talking about things they don’t like. It’s calculated and structured. It’s planning and planning until you think you have everything down to a T, just to realize that there’s more to do. It’s collaborating with people all across your city, and keeping the connection Read more…
Born in Humboldt Park, Ramírez still lives in the block where she grew up, literally next to her mother’s house. She worked in Logan Square for years as executive director of the Center for Changing Lives and most recently as president of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association. Click Here for Full Article