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  • August 2020 – Monthly Spotlight with Alisha Page

    by Save the Kids Staff The following four questions were answered by Alisha below. 1. When did you get involved in activism in your life? 2. What was the first type of activism you got involved with? 3. How is racial justice, youth justice and being a school teacher relate in your opinion? 4. What…

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  • Official Statement – Save the Kids Official Statement on the organization – Save The Children [Fund]

    OFFICIAL STATEMENTSave the Kids Official Statement on the organization – Save The Children [Fund] 8.17.2020 Save the Kids (STK) is in no way associated with Save The Children — which is an entirely different organization. Save The Children or Save The Children Fund, from our perspective, is an organization that focuses on the exploitation, fetishization,…

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  • On Self Care, Abolition, and Resistance: A Coalition of Love

    “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” -Audre Lorde People who have been doing this work for a long time have personally suffered triggers unpatterned flashes of PTSD, insomnia, and outright exhaustion. Movement work is personal for us. Enlightenment is thoroughly painful and permeates our…

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  • Save the Kids Official Statement – On Rioting in Minneapolis in Response to the Extrajudicial Murder of George Floyd (Rest in Power, King):

    “Revolutionaries didn’t choose armed struggle as the best path, it’s the path the oppressors imposed on the people. And so the people only have two choices: to suffer, or to fight.” – Fidel Castro, 1967 Derek Chauvin being arrested and charged for murder is exactly why the establishment hates rioting and looting: Because it works.…

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  • May- 2020 Monthly Spotlight with Lucas Dietsche

    Interview by STK Committee and Matt Reschke 1. When did you get involved in activism in your life?   I became a revolutionary communist(anti-Stalinist Trotskyist) in 2004.  I transformed from being a conservative overnight through Iraq war work, student work, tuition fights, and work on campus at University of Wisconsin Superior.  I joined Youth for Socialist…

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  • April 2020 – Top Five – Films on the Punitive Justice System

    During the Caronavirus many people are staying home, while others are forced to work still to stay alive and keep their jobs. Thank you to all the essential workers. Save the Kids is filled with those essential workers as Save the Kids is a fully-volunteer national grass-roots organization. Here are NINE films to watch on…

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  • April 2020 – Monthly Spotlight with Hest Aden

    April 2020 – Monthly Spotlight with Hest Aden By Matt Reschke Updated 4-27-29 10:26am 1. When did you get involved in activism in your life? When did I get involved in activism in my life? I was charged with murder in Dec. of ’07, and was allowed to enter a county jail program dorm for…

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  • Save the Kids Official Statement – Incarcerated Youth

    March 30, 2020 With the surging mortality rates in the global COVID-19 crisis, hospitals, schools, restaurants, and even spaces of worship have been placed on strict moratorium because federal guidelines implemented to create physical distance and by proxy–safety for denizens on US soil. Youth carceral institutions like juvenile hall and mandatory exclusionary “rehabilitation” camps have…

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  • Save the Kids Official Statement – Iran

    March 29, 2020 When the US committed an act of war on Iraqi soil by executing a foreign leader–General Soleman of the Iranian military, they violated not only international treat (e.g., Article 51 of the UN charter) but also US constitution as Executive Order 11905 signed on February 18, 1976, by President Gerald R. Ford…

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  • Save the Kids Official Statement – Racist Propaganda During COVID-19 Pandemic

    March 26, 2020 There is No Place for Racism & Inequities as We Grapple with COVID-19. Save The Kids (STK) and its leadership team know well the upheaval and trauma the COVID-19 pandemic has caused worldwide. STK also knows that it is abhorrent, counterproductive and racist for President Donald Trump to unapologetically call COVID-19 the…

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  • Top Five – School-to-Prison-Pipeline Books

    This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the school-to-prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate―and suggests practical remedies for change. How is racism perpetuated by the education system, particularly via the “school-to-prison pipeline?” How is the school to prison pipeline intrinsically connected to the larger…

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  • Save the Kids Official Statement – Rest in Power Wake Self

    LONG LIVE WAKE SELF November 12, 2019 Wake Self will be greatly missed by Save the Kids. Wake Self was killed by a drunk driver in a car accident. He was taken from us, by a poison that kills and destroys so many people and communities. Save the Kids is aware of how alcohol has…

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  • Support Real Black Panthers

    SUPPORT BLACK PANTHERS IN PRISONS We want you to make sure to keep the attention on current Black Panthers in prison (visit – http://www.thejerichomovement.com/ ) and not a made up Black Panther in a movie where the profits (which are celebrated) are going in the hands of a long standing historical racist company, Disney. Save…

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