More than 300 young people gathered in a South Side Chicago high school on a Sunday afternoon, urging politicians to fund youth employment and social services. Though a half-dozen elected officials had promised to attend, only one showed up.
Speaking out about everything from youth violence to religious intolerance, more than 100 students from across Chicago participated in the Mikva Challenge Soapbox contest. The final 15 addressed a panel of lawyers, judges and community leaders.
In summer 2009, nine high school students working with the Metropolitan Area Group for Igniting Civilization created a documentary exploring patterns of student arrest, a phenomenon they describe as the School-to-Prison pipeline.
At a Youth Town Hall in Chicago last month, Brandi Wilson spoke about three close friends all black teenagers who had been killed in the last year, a trio among the more than 500 young people shot in the nations third largest city since September 2008. Wilson wrote about sobbing alone in her room at night and about refusing despite the frequency of youth shootings to accept this as normal.
On October 9-10th, 300 grantee and Family members gathered at the Equal Voice Convening in San Francisco to discuss the Equal Voice National Platform. Family members and grantee gathered to discuss issues as healthcare, childcare, education, immigration, criminal justice reform and issues that are affecting their neighborhood
A trailer of the "Raise Hope: The Story of the Equal Voice for America's Families Campaign".
President Luz Vega-Marquis speaks about the campaign goals at the Equal Voice for America's Families Convention in Birmingham. The film was produced by "New America Media". President Luz Vega-Marquis speaks about the campaign goals at the Equal Voice for America's Families Convention in Birmingham. The film was produced by "New America Media".