May 16-23, 2021 9th Annual National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth

May 16-23, 2021
9th Annual
National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth

• 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.

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.

GOALS
200 Sponsors
100 Cities
200 Events

SPONSORS – JOIN THE MOVEMENT

It is FREE to be a sponsor. Just send Anthony Nocella – nocellat@yahoo.com a message saying you want to organize an event and be a sponsor, and of course tell us the name of the group. You can send details of the event later.

1. Salt Lake Peace and Justice Center
2. Save the Kids
3. Poetry Behind the Walls
4. Wisdom Behind the Walls
5. Institute for Critical Animal Studies
6. Critical Animal Studies Society
7. Critical Animal Studies Academy
8. Dream Center, University of Utah
9. Utah Reintegration Project, Salt Lake Community College
10. Transformative Justice Journal
11. Peace Studies Journal
12. Arissa Media Group
13. Journal for Critical Animal Studies
14. Green Theory and Praxis Journal
15. Salt Lake Prisoner Letter Writing
16. Mind Over Matter
17. Sparks & McNeill, LLC
18. DecARcerate (in Arkansas)
19. Alternatives To Violence Project New York
20. Twin Cities Omega Zuluz
21. International Hip Hop Studies Association
22. Institute for Hip Hop Activism

Below is a list of events throughout the United States for the 9th Annual National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth.

EVENTS

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming