Grounded in our commitment to peace, unity and justice, the mission of Youth Together is to address the root causes of educational inequities by developing multiracial youth leaders and engaging school community allies to promote positive school change.
POLITICAL EDUCATION
We do research, as well as create and provide political education to our students across sites. We believe that youth are integral to creating lasting change in our communities, and make sure that we equip our students with the tools they need to think critically.
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Our students learn the value of community first hand through the outreach work that we do. We strive to give our students the opportunity to lead their community, but first make sure that they are grounded in the skills.
EDUCATIONAL CHANGE
While we teach our students that the community is the first place to organize, we also make sure to arm our students with the advocacy skills they need to make broad and institutionalized changes to better the experiences of their peers.
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We see y’all, #Moms4Housing! Thank you for continuing on the legacy of radical action in service of bettering Black lives! #BlackExcellence
Moms 4 Housing Among Oakland’s Black History Month Honorees | News Break
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OAKLAND (CBS SF) — The activist women known as Moms 4 Housing will be among those recognized as Black History Month honorees when the Oakland City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, council Preside...Are you passionate about education? Do you dream about supporting youth and the community through leading change-making in their communities? Then you should join our team!
Youth Together is seeking driven, dynamic, and dedicated individuals to join our team of #changemakers for the 2020 - 2021 school year! For more information, check out the link below!
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Join Us! At Youth Together, we’re all about our mission to create a more just educational system by transforming the lives of our young people by building community & teaching them organizing skills...Today, we're considering the words of James Baldwin, in his Letter to Angela Davis:
"We know that we, the blacks, and not only we, the blacks, have been, and are, the victims of a system whose only fuel is greed, whose only god is profit. We know that the fruits of this system have been ignorance, despair, and death, and we know that the system is doomed because the world can no longer afford it—if, indeed, it ever could have. And we know that, for the perpetuation of this system, we have all been mercilessly brutalized, and have been told nothing but lies, lies about ourselves and our kinsmen and our past, and about love, life, and death, so that both soul and body have been bound in hell.
The enormous revolution in black consciousness which has occurred in your generation, my dear sister, means the beginning or the end of America. Some of us, white and black, know how great a price has already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, an unprecedented nation. If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name.
If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.
Therefore: peace.
Brother James"
James Baldwin was a renowned writer, poet, essayist, and activist. James' work helped to build bridges and address critical issues, such as toxic masculinity, and dealing with one's sexuality. In his letter, Baldwin is writing to Angela Davis, a Black freedom fighter and Black Panther, to encourage her to keep up the fight, which he describes as "fighting for her life as if fighting for our own".
This Black Futures Month, think about how we as elders are reaching back to our young people and fighting for their lives as if they were our own. What more can we do to create a multigenerational movement that brings young people to the forefront without making them sacrifice their youth?
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An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis
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One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that...We see you doing the work for the people, Councilwoman Bas! #oaklandexcellence
Oakland councilwoman to introduce Moms 4 Housing-inspired ordinance
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The Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act would give tenants a first right to purchase when their landlord sells their building.