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Following is a list of groups and web
resources on youth activism and the criminalization of youth, in no particular order. Only a handful of the listings are
annotated, but many are youth organizations worth checking out and in need of your support:
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PARC's high school curriculum on the Criminalization of Youth
http://prisonactivist.org/curriculum
Homies Unidos
A nonpolitical, nonreligious, autonomous organization
of youth from different gangs who are no longer active in violence.
Offers youth and communities opportunities to diminish and prevent
violence.
http://www.homiesunidos.org/
Active Element Foundation
Builds relationships between grassroots youth organizers, donors, professionals and artists
through grant making, technical assistance and hip hop culture.
http://www.activeelement.org
Prison Moratorium Project - NY
A multiracial grassroots organization of young activists
working to strategize, resist and fight the Prison Industrial
Complex through political education, community based partnerships,
youth organizing, prison activist trainings, campaigns and direct
action.
http://www.nomoreprisons.org
Youth Empowerment Center
School of Unity and Liberation, C-Beyond, YouthForce, Underground Railroad
http://www.youthec.org/
The No War on Youth Online Resources page
http://www.colorlines.com/waronyouth
Books Not
Bars
Works to expose and end the over-incarceration of youth and build a "bottom-up" movement to transform the entire
criminal justice system
http://booksnotbars.org
Schools Not Jails
News,
forums, events and more
http://schoolsnotjails.com
Teen Violence: The
Myths and the Realities By Randolph T. Holhut
http://www.mdle.com/WrittenWord/rholhut/holhut25.htm
The Beat Within:
A Weekly Newsletter of Writing and Art from the Inside
http://www.pacificnews.org/yo/beat/
Youth Outlook: The World Through Young People's
Eyes
http://www.pacificnews.org/yo
Progressive Directory Youth Page: SF Bay Area Groups Working
on Youth Issues
http://www.emf.net/~cheetham/kyouth-1.html
Rethinking Schools on the Criminalization of Youth
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/Archives/12_02/kids.htm
Juvenile
Justice Center of the American Bar Association
http://www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus/home.html
Article: Children Behind Bars - Juvenile Crime Link to
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
http://www.come-over.to/fasstar/juvcrime1.htm
Peer Justice and Youth Empowerment - from the Justice Information Center
http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/PUBS/peerhome.htm
Speak Out!'s Speakers on Youth
http://www.speakersandartists.org/Topics/YouthStudentActivism.html
The International Student Activism Alliance
http://www.studentactivism.org
Fighting Against Pete Wilson's Draconian proposition 21
http://www.noprop21.org Just
Act
A national, nonprofit organization promoting youth leadership and action for global justice.
http://www.justact.org/
Center for Third World Organizing
- Oakland
A racial justice organization dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color. Training and
resources that promote and sustain direct action organizing in communities of color.
http://www.ctwo.org/
AYPAL
The Asian Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership (AYPAL) is
a collaboration project of seven agencies in the Asian and Pacific Islander Youth Network in the East Bay.
http://www.oases.org/programs/AYPAL.html
Center on Juvenile and Criminal
Justice
http://www.cjcj.org/ |
