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  • What Happens When the Bull Elephants are Taken Away? by Toby Earl Johnson

    What Happens When the Bull Elephants are Taken Away? By: Toby Earl Johnson There is a story about a nature preserve in Africa: In this particular preserve, all the male adult elephants were taken away.  As a result, the juvenile elephants were rampaging, killing rhinoceroses and threatening farmers. A couple of them were so dangerous…

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  • Helping Hands by Toby Earl Johnson

    Helping Hands By: Toby Earl Johnson Theres a story about a man walking down a beach and seeing a kid picking starfist up off the sand and throwing htem back into the ocean. Not fully understanding, he asked the kid if he really felt like he was making a difference? Picking up anohter starfish and…

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  • Introducing Myself by Jamie Rohr

    Introducing Myself By: Jamie Rohr My name is Jamie Rohr. I am currently serving time for Sales of Meth. They sentenced me to 135 months in prison. I got a lil story I think some might like to hear. I grew up with a mother who would do anything to insure I was happy as…

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  • Donate to Twin Cities Save the Kids for a Sound System

    Raising $ for speakers so that the Twin Cities can hear our call for alternatives/ending incarceration for youth. Click here to donate: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1756373174/make-hip-hop-activism-loud-save-the-kids-tc Save the Kids (STK) is a fully-volunteer national grass-roots organization dedicated to alternatives to and the end of incarceration of all youth and the school to prison pipeline. One of STK’s grounding…

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  • Recap of Twin Cities Hip Hop Against Police Brutality Benefit Teach-in, Die-in, Rally, and Concert

    For the first time in Twin Cities Hip Hop has an event such as this taken place. Not only did it take place, but it was organized in 24 hours by Save the Kids a fully-volunteer organization with press releases being sent out, professional media, videographers, photographers, sound, and many of the Hip Hop elements.…

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  • New Training Video for Tabling for Save the Kids

    Everyone with Save the Kids please check out this video on how to table. Tabling is one of the best ways to educate the public about a lot of information in a short amount of time. We set up tables/booths at colleges, universities, high schools, churches, temples, festivals, conferences, forums, and music shows.

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  • Nov 24 2014 – Twin Cities Rally and March for Mike Brown

    Here are some of the pictures from many people taken at the Twin Cities Mike Brown rally, which was organized by many groups including co-organized by Save the Kids. The event had more than 2,000 people with closing off two highways and about twenty street blocks. It has been noted to be the largest rally…

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  • Twin Cities Hip Hop Against Police Brutality Benefit Concert & Vigil and Die-In

    Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/421859781299124/?notif_t=plan_user_joined Twin Cities Hip Hop Against Police Brutality Concert 7:30pm to 9:30pm 2nd floor of the Exchange 3405 Chicago Ave. Minneapolis, MN And we might take over a block if a lot of people come out and rally!! DONATIONS AT THE DOOR will go to: 1. Mike Brown’s Family 2. Local Black…

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  • Two Ways to End the School to Prison Pipeline: Hip Hop Culture and Transformative Justice

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  • Nov 7, 2014 Buffalo Save the Kids and Push Buffalo Co-Facilitate Youth Justice Workshop

    On November 7, 2014 Buffalo Save the Kids and Push Buffalo joined up to put together a Youth Justice and Stop Police Brutality workshop for over twenty youth in Buffalo, New York. The workshop was only suppose to last thirty minutes but went on to almost two hours, with more and more youth wanting to…

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  • Save the Kids with Anthony Nocella speaks at the Western New York Peace Center Annual Dinner

    On November 8, 2014 Anthony Nocella keynoted the Western New York Peace Center’s Annual Dinner, where he spoke about his work with Save the Kids nationally, Hip Hop culture, transformative justice, his experience in special education, and what people can do locally to end the school to prison pipeline and school pushout. Save the Kids…

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  • Buffalo Save the Kids tables with Black and Pink

    Buffalo Save the Kids, Teens in Progress, and Black and Pink tabled on November 8, 2014 at the local Buffalo, New York library to table for LGBTTQI prisoners and to write to them. The event was wonderful and had more than forty people come by the table.

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  • Buffalo Save the Kids Workshop at Burning Books

    On November 9, 2014 at Burning Book in Buffalo, Buffalo Save the Kids and Anthony Nocella with Twin Cities Save the Kids was hosted by Western New York Peace Center to facilitate a workshop on transformative justice, youth justice, and group-building activities. The turn out was over fifty people and was from 6pm to 9pm,…

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  • October 2014 National Month for Youth Justice

    In Collaboration with the National Month for Youth Justice led by the Campaign for Youth Justice out of Washington D.C. Save the Kids hosted a number of tabling and panel discussions on ending the incarceration of youth and the end of school pushout.

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  • Oct 4 to Oct 12, 2014 – National Week of Action Against School Pushouts

    Dignity in Schools was the lead organization for the National Week of Action Against School Pushouts. There were hundreds of organizations involved with over thirty cities hosting events. Save the Kids with all of our chapters hosted approximately thirty events with over nineteen of them in Minneapolis and Saint Paul Minnesota. We are proud to…

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