Rahiem Shabazz

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Dr. Boyce Watkins: The Importance of Supporting Elementary Genocide 2

Boyce-EG-SouthAfricaThe People’s scholar Dr. Boyce Watkins explores the social and academic worlds of Black and Brown youths in the latest documentary, “Elementary Genocide 2: The Board of Education vs The Board of Incarceration“.

Dr. Watkins speaks on the importance of supporting Elementary Genocide 2 and why there is a need to have builders and not beggars.

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“Elementary Genocide” shatters the silence and directly challenges the notion that the Public Education system is not in dire need of repair. The Award Winning documentary, has been mentioned by the Obama Administration in a press release honoring the ‘Champion of Change’ honoree Tracey Syphax.

“We have shipped copies to every state throughout the mainland U.S. as well as Hawaii, Canada, London, and even a few countries in Africa.

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Talib Kweli Talks Prison Industrial Complex & Slavery

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Few rappers are bold enough to defy the norm and speak out about the social issues of our times. However, there are exceptions to the rule. During a concert in California, Jay-Z shouted out “California, build more schools, less prisons”, in support of Proposition 47.

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The latest rapper to take a political stance against the prison industrial complex is no other than social conscious rapper Kweli.

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NYCLU Demands That NYPD Stop Handcuffing 5-Year-Olds

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The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) is demanding sweeping changes to current discipline guidelines for the more than 5,000 school safety officers in New York City. The NYCLU has previously sued the NYPD for use of force against students and wrongful arrest, made the demands during a press conference Wednesday, stating that school discipline should be handles by educators, not the police.

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Parents Outraged: Student Punished For Helping Hungry Friend

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Recently an 8th grader from Weaverville, California was given a detention for sharing his lunch with a friend. All the 13 year-old Kyle Bradford did was share his chicken burrito with his friend didn’t want to eat the cheese sandwich the cafeteria was serving. Kyle, just like many other people and kids, didn’t see a problem with sharing his food with the other student. Here’s what Kyle had to say about it:

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Teacher Says ‘Killing Black People Is On Her Bucket List’

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A North Carolina teacher may lose her job after students reported her for making racist
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Math teacher Cynthia Ramsey of Camden County High School allegedly admitted to a student who was eating lunch that killing black people is on her “bucket list.”

“She conveyed to me that Mrs. Ramsey had indicated that if she only had 10 days to live that she would kill all black people,” the student’s mother, Kimberly Ashcraft, told WAVY-TV.

Ashcraft said she was stunned by the comment and couldn’t believe what she’d heard.

“I was completely shocked,” Ashcraft said. “I asked her again, ‘Are you sure that was what you heard?’ I could not have imagined a teacher saying that.”

Ashcraft says what is even more worrisome is that Ramsey is not only a teacher, but head of the math department.

“I conveyed to my daughter that this is a very serious allegation and I need confirmation that this did happen,” Ashcraft explained.

An officer told the news station that other students confirmed the story told by Ashcraft’s daughter.

 

Source: I Love Black People

12 Major Corporations Benefiting from the Prison Industrial Complex

Prison labor in the United States is referred to as insourcing. Under the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), employers receive a tax credit of $2,400 for every work-release inmate they employ as a reward for hiring “risky target groups.”

The workers are not only cheap labor, but they are considered easier to control. They also?tend to be African-American males. Companies are free to avoid providing benefits like health insurance or sick days. They also don’t need to worry about unions, demands for vacation time, raises or family issues.

According to the Left Business Observer, “the federal prison industry produces 100 percent of all military helmets, war supplies and other equipment. The workers supply 98 percent of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93 percent of paints and paintbrushes; 92 percent of stove assembly; 46 percent of body armor; 36 percent of home appliances; 30 percent of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21 percent of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye dogs for blind people.”

With all of that productivity, the inmates make about 90 cents to $4 a day.

Here are some of the biggest corporations to use such practices, but there are hundreds more: Continue reading

40+ Cities Hold National Week of Action To Stop School To Prison Pipeline

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CHICAGO – (ENEWSPF) -October 2, 2014. For the third time in five years, Project NIA is participating in the Dignity in Schools Campaign’s? National Week of Action on School Pushout (October 4-11). As an organization dedicated to juvenile justice, Project NIA works diligently to interrupt school pushout, which is often described as the “school-to-prison pipeline.”

In 2014, the advocacy and organizing of Project NIA and other local groups, including COFI, VOYCE, and Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law (CLC), have achieved major victories in the fight to break this pipeline. The wins include: Continue reading

#ElementaryGenocide #School2PrisonPipeline Live Twitter Chat Tonight @ 7PM

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Tonight 7pm EST #ElementaryGenocide #School2PrisonPipeline Live Chat on Twitter w/ Rahiem Shabazz Make sure to use the hashtags to join the conversation.

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Elementary Genocide: The School To Prison Pipeline

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