8th Annual National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth

Anthony J. Nocella
National Coordinator, National Weeks of Actions
E-mail: nocellat@yahoo.com
Phone-number: 315-657-2911 cellphone

#NoYouthInPrison

@STKgroup

Official Website: https://savethekidsgroup.org/8thnoyouthinprison/

Facebook Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/noyouthinprison/

2020 Event Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/184353196261150/

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  • The National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth is a fully-volunteer project organized by hundreds of groups and individuals around the United States.
  • The National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth is a fully-volunteer project organized by hundreds of groups and individuals around the United States.
  • We are looking for groups and individuals around the United States to organize events.
  • The juvenile justice system targets four youth group for incarceration; they are the following, in no specific order: (1) Youth of Color, (2) Youth with Disabilities, (3) Economically Disadvantaged Youth, and (4) LGBT+ Youth.

GOALS: Another world is possible, and it begins with community based programs and alternatives such as rehabilitation, therapy, counseling, job readiness workshops, tutoring, more community programs and centers, and transformative justice programs in the community and in schools to address conflicts. Incarceration is not the solution, but the problem. Once youth are forced in the juvenile justice system, it is hard for them to get out of it. Youth are not at risk, they are targetted and trapped. Please support youth and their futures and demand no youth in prison no matter the crime/harm they have committed. Incarceration does nothing to address the needs of the youth who have committed the harm.

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PROBLEM: The three step oppressive punishment process targeting youth is:

(1) Criminalization of Youth is the stigmatization of youth through laws and norms that are based on their behavior, dress, socializing, identity, and community they live in.

(2) Policing of Youth is the surveillance and social controlling of youth by law enforcement and those in disciplinary roles.

(3) Punitive Discipline of Youth is the punishment of youth which includes detention, out of school suspension, incarceration, home arrest, and probation.

These three steps need to be eliminated in the juvenile justice system, which is the prison part of the school to prison pipeline.

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THEMES

May 17- Brown vs. Board of Ed. 1954

May 18

May 19 – Malcolm X B-Day 1925

May 20

May 21 – BIGGIE B-Day 1972

May 22

May 23

May 24

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The days of May 17, May 19, and May 21 were chosen for FIVE reasons:

(1) because they are close to the time when students are getting out of school for the summer, which is the time when there is the most amount of youth violence and youth incarceration;

(2) because May 19 is the birthday of Malcolm X, a U.S. civil rights and Black liberation leader. Malcolm X once told his favorite teacher that he had a dream to be a lawyer, his teacher replied that was “no[t] realistic goal for a [n-word]”. This caused Malcolm X leaving school and entering the street life of selling drugs, gambling, and pimping. His childhood life is a perfect example of the school to prison pipeline. The National Week holds to Malcolm X’s statement: “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today”;

(3) because May 17 is the anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, which ended segregation legally, but segregation still exists today systematically and socially; and

(4) because it acts as a bookend to the other National Week of Action. The other is organized by Dignity in Schools’ National Week of Action Against School Pushout, which is at the beginning of the school year.

(5) It is BIGGIE’s birthday, who said:

Yeah, this album is dedicated
To all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothin’
To all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustlin’ in front of
Called the police on me when I was just tryin’ to make some money to feed my daughter (it’s all good)

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Goals for the NWAAIY
200 Sponsors
100 Cities
200 Events

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SPONSORS

To be a sponsor is free. Just send us a message saying you want to organize an event and be a sponsor.

1. Save the Kids
2. Poetry Behind the Walls
3. Wisdom Behind the Walls
4. Transformative Justice Journal
5. Peace Studies Journal
6. Outdoor Empowerment
7. Institute for Critical Animal Studies
8. Arissa Media Group
9. Central New York Peace Studies Consortium
10. Green Theory and Praxis Journal
11. Academy for Peace Education
12. Global Youth Justice, Inc.
13. National Juvenile Justice Network
14. Campaign for Youth Justice
15. The Youth Justice Project
16. Stand Up Radio
17. La Plazita Institute
18. Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice
19. Utah Reintegration Project
20. Utah Criminology Student Association
21. Salt Lake Prisoner Letter Writing
22. Youth First Initiative
23. Black Lives Matter, Utah Chapter
24. Wisdom Behind the Walls
25. Funk Nation LLC
26. TeamChild
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