Category: Annual Events

2017 3rd Annual International Hip Hop Activism Conference

April 12, 2017

Facebook Event Page #2017HipHopActivismConference _________________________________________________________________________ SCHEDULE PDF of Conference Schedule _______________________________ 9:30am – Welcoming Torie Weiston-Serdan Founder and Executive Director, Youth Mentoring Action Network and Anthony J. Nocella II, National Co-Coordinator, Save the Kids and Assistant Professor, Fort Lewis College _______________________________ 10am – Session One Workshop Session Chair – Blue vs. Black Lives, Time to…
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Feb. 21 – SB397

February 21, 2017

https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=397&year=17 Santa Fe, NM – Tomorrow, Senator Linda Lopez will join community members, advocates, and social workers for a press conference to discuss Senate Bill 397 which is aimed at curbing the “school-to-prison pipeline,” the trend has seen children funneled out of public schools and into the criminal justice system. The legislation would provide education…
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2017 2nd Annual Transformative Justice, Prison Abolition, and Anarchist Criminology Conference

January 5, 2017

2017 2nd Annual Transformative Justice, Prison Abolition and Anarchist Criminology Conference March 25 and 26, 2017 Senate Chambers, Student Union Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, USA Free and Open to the Public _________________________________________________ SCHEDULE March 25, 2017 – Saturday Every presentation presented by each individual should be approximately 15 to 20 minutes long. 10:00am to…
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2017 5th Annual National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth

January 5, 2017

We are looking for groups and individuals around the United States to organize events. During the 2017 5th Annual National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth organizations, groups, collectives, mosques, synagogue, community centers, bookstores, schools, clubs, churches, recreation centers, and temples, are organizing in their communities around the country daily events during the week aimed…
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Oct 20, 2016 End School Pushout in Durango, Colorado

November 6, 2016

Community members, students, and teachers came out and organized a rally in front of Durango High School with a graduate rate of about 75% according to Durango Herald to end SROs in Durango High School because they are obviously not needed and to replace them with counselors. Durango High School also needs to do much…
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Albuquerque, NM Protest for Counselors Not Cops

November 6, 2016

Durango Save the Kids and many organizations aided in organizing a rally and march/roll for counselors not cops in Albuquerque, NM on the week of the National Week of Action Against School Pushout organized by Dignity in Schools. Below are pictures from the rally.
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Don’t Push Us Out! Buffalo Save the Kids Event

November 6, 2016

Don’t Push Us Out! organized by a number of groups including Buffalo Save the Kids was a huge success with many diverse attendees at the local social justice bookstore Burning Books. Below are a number of pictures from the event, which was held during the National Week of Action Against School Pushout organized by Dignity…
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Oct 15-23, 2016 – National Week of Action Against School Pushout

October 2, 2016

Oct 15-23, 2016 – National Week of Action Against School Pushout Save the Kids again is joining Dignity in Schools and 100s of other organizations in asking our volunteers, chapters and friends to take the streets and do at least one action (teach-in, lecture, workshop, conference, tabling, rally, protest, march/roll, film screening, sit-in, walkout, and…
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National Book Release “This Place is Hell” In Minneapolis June 24 2016

June 22, 2016

There are two events this Friday, June 24, 2016 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA for the national book release of “This Place is Hell” a book in the Poetry Behind the Walls book series a project of Save the Kids a national grass-roots fully-volunteer organization working to create alternatives to and the end of the school…
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