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DESCRIPTION:International Figure Lennox Hinds and R&B/Pop Star Raz B Join the Education 
 Not Incarceration Coalition (ENI) for Youth Empowerment Day to launch a 
 campaign to address the crisis of students pushed out of school and into 
 prison  WHAT:         “Youth Empowerment Day” to Stop “Pushouts” 
 from School into Prison  WHEN:	Saturday, June 3, 2006, 6pm to 9pm     
 WHERE:	McClymonds Educational Complex , 2607 Myrtle Street (26th Street, 
 between Adeline and Market Streets)  WHO:		Students, parents, labor unions, 
 educators, community leaders, interfaith leaders and elected officials  
 Oakland, CA – Youth, parents, educators, labor unions, interfaith, 
 community members, and elected officials will join Lennox Hinds, lawyer for 
 South Africa, Rwanda, Nelson Mandela and Angela Davis; Raz B, R&B Pop 
 Artist, formerly of B2K; Camila Chavez, daughter of Delores Huerta, niece 
 of Cesar Chavez and Executive Director and co-founder of the Dolores Huerta 
 Foundation, and Barbara Becnel, gubernatorial candidate and lawyer for 
 Stanly “Tookie” Williams for Youth Empowerment Day to launch our 
 campaign to stop students from being pushed out of our schools – into our 
 streets - and into our prisons.  In Oakland over 52% of youth and 73% of 
 all African American males do not finish school.  Throughout the country in 
 inner-cities over 50% of African American males do not finish high school; 
 72% of these “pushouts” were jobless in their 20s; by their 
 mid-thirties, 60% had spent time in prison.    Through excessive policies 
 of suspension and expulsion, lack of adequate resources, insufficient 
 school staffing, deteriorating and decrepit facilities and standardized 
 “one size fits all” curriculum, our youth are increasingly being pushed 
 out of our schools – on to our streets – and into our prisons.   
 Education Not Incarceration has worked extensively with youth, parents and 
 educators at McClymonds Educational Complex and throughout Oakland to 
 develop a campaign that seeks to make changes to the education system that 
 will make students want to stay in school.      	  “The issue of pushouts 
 is central to communities of color throughout the nation.  Students forced 
 out of school leads to unemployment and forces young people into criminal 
 activity to survive.  We can either invest in our children today or in 
 their incarceration tomorrow.” said keynote speaker Lennox Hinds.    For 
 more information, please visit http://www.ednotinc.org or call 510.225.8491 
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SUMMARY:Youth Empowerment Day
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