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DESCRIPTION:  Oakland City Council to Declare June 3rd Youth   Empowerment Day to Stop 
 “Pushouts”   from School to Prison   WHEN: Tuesday May 30, 2006, Press 
 Conference 5:30PM,   Presentation of     Proclamation: 6PM   WHERE: Oakland 
 City Hall, 14th Street and Broadway in   Downtown, Oakland   WHO: Oakland 
 City Council Presenting a Proclamation   to Community Leaders, Including 
 Former Councilmember   Wilson Riles   Oakland, CA – On Tuesday, May 30, 
 2006, The Oakland   City Council will present the Education Not   
 Incarceration Coalition with a proclamation declaring   June 3rd “Youth 
 Empowerment Day” to stop pushouts from   school to prison. Community 
 leaders, including former   City-coucil-member Wilson Riles, will hold a 
 press   conference at 5:30PM in front of City Hall.   On June 3rd 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\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/29/103533.php
SUMMARY:Oakland City Council to Declare June 3rd "Youth Empowerment Day"
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URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/29/103533.php
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