The People's Think Tank for Education Justice

A Look Back at 2024: If you haven't yet read Janeen Comenote's essay, "Becoming Visible: Centering the Native Experience in Solidarity Building," it's available on our website! https://buff.ly/3W5leQX #research #intersectional #justice #indigenous

A Look Back at 2024: Don't forget, this essay is available on our site! Give it a read! #solidarity #trans #california #liberation

2025 is here, and so is The People's Think Tank for Education Justice. #solidarity #research #organizing #community

"Our work is never to be about us individually but always to be about us collectively. When an individual happens to benefit because of something that we've all done, we have to see that through the lens that the world doesn't often show us: that Jonathan's win is my win and Mark's win is my win. When we are winning together, that makes us stronger, that makes us healthier, and that makes us well. That's our goal: for us all to be well." Dr. Anika Whitfield, a podiatrist, minister, and organizer with Grassroots Arkansas, speaks to us in "Refusing to Accept the Unacceptable: Organizing with Humility and Love". Read more: https://buff.ly/3W5leQX #solidarity #intersectional #south #publiceducation #health

The November 2024 PTT Newsletter is out! Have you subscribed yet? Dig in for deeper insights and updates on our events, research, people, and happenings. https://buff.ly/49qfkwB #intersectional #solidarity #organizing #edjustice

"To me, intersectional organizing is rooted in African tradition. I understand culture as a people's way of life. There has to be a way that we organize that is reflective of that understanding. That understanding is that we are one." Jitu Brown, national director of the Journey for Justice Alliance, takes us on his own organizing journey starting in early 90's Chicago. Jitu has been heavily involved in the fight for sustainable community schools and shares empowering insights on the deep ancestral roots of solidarity building. Read more: https://buff.ly/4fjLLjA #solidarity #Black #justice #self-determination #research

"To me, intersectional organizing is rooted in African tradition. I understand culture as a people's way of life. There has to be a way that we organize that is reflective of that understanding. That understanding is that we are one." Jitu Brown, national director of the Journey for Justice Alliance, takes us on his own organizing journey starting in early 90's Chicago. Jitu has been heavily involved in the fight for sustainable community schools and shares empowering insights on the deep ancestral roots of solidarity building. Read more: https://buff.ly/4fjLLjA #solidarity #Black #justice #self-determination #research

"I don't think that anyone wrote in their high school yearbook that they wanted to be an activist. Back then, you wanted to be a basketball player, a doctor, or something like that. But I knew already that I wanted to work for the benefit of my community." Tanesha Peeples, founder and CEO of The Roots Initiative, shares her intersectional journey into organizing through work on child justice campaigns and around the obstacles presented by Chicago's machine politics. Read more about the fight for her community: https://buff.ly/3W5leQX #chicago #blackyouth #childjustice #organizing

We are looking forward to hosting this emergency convening on the Status of Black male adolescents here in Montgomery County, Maryland and beyond. Black youth in general are in crisis, however, we've noticed the crisis among our Black male youth is literally life and death. On top of the increased criminalization of this group of young people, increased substance abuse, is the horrific increase in suicides for these children. The only institution responding to this crisis among Black boys has been a cage, to jail them. Not care and prevention. We believe that is unacceptable. We are demanding #CareNotCages for Black male adolescents in Maryland and beyond. Black boy's are NOT disposable even though the rampant dehumanization of Black boy's has been normalized, we are calling for an intervention of that not normalization. It is not acceptable. Black boy's deserve LOVE ?? and care like all other children. Join us if you believe Black boys are indeed HUMAN and deserve ##CareNotCops ?? ?? Let us know your interest here: https://lnkd.in/eMgXNwSs

"Breaking Barriers Together: A Special Education Advocacy Conference for the Black Disability Community" takes place virtually starting on Friday, August 23. Interested? https://lnkd.in/gPHgxMwY #disability #advocacy #black #specialeducation