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Honoring Our Past, Fighting for Our Future ✊🏾📚
This Black History Month, we’re highlighting Black History in Education—connecting the struggles, victories, and ongoing fight for police-free schools to BOP’s work for true educational justice.
#PoliceFreeSchools
"When The Roots Are Deep There Is No Reason To Fear The Wind”- African proverb
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HAPPY GFR DAY!
Can you believe it's already been 4 years since our George Floyd Resolution was passed, making Oakland Schools entirely police free !!!
In honor of GFR Day, we are releasing our special edition OUSD Police-Free Shirts!
Grab one today! gfranniversary.com
Last month, BOP organizers and members made a visit to the State Capital to support CA Assembly Bill 2441.
🎉As cosponsors of this bill, we are happy to announce that AB2441 has PASSED the California assembly and is making its way to the CA State Senate!
B.O.P. retweeted
Malaika Parker, executive director of @BlackOrgProject, shares the progress that has been made in ending the criminalization of Black & brown youth in the 4 years since the passage of the #GeorgeFloydResolution for #PoliceFree Schools in Oakland. yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024…
" Our progress in Oakland has shown us what works to transform local systems that punish Black youth and communities of color: Put young people, parents, and community members at the center of the work. "
yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024…
B.O.P. retweeted
We were fortunate to publish an op-ed by Malaika Parker, the executive director of @BlackOrgProject, about Black families in Oakland pushing police officers out of school and instituting an alternative pathway of restorative justice.
yesmagazine.org/opinion/2024…
B.O.P. retweeted
Thank you, Asm. @ash_kalra, for authoring #AB2441 with us & our co-sponsors. ✨
🎊We’re proud of our multiple co-sponsors who paved the way for the bill’s passage: @PublicCounsel @DoloresHuertaFD @AllianceforBMOC @DisabilityCA @BlackOrgProject @SACBPSB @ColemanSF1 & @sjli_ca.
DRC is thrilled to announce that a California state bill we co-sponsored to keep students in school, #AB2441, has PASSED the California Assembly! 🎉
If passed and signed into law, #AB2441 will:
✏️ Allow educators the discretion to decide whether to report certain student behaviors to law enforcement, while still having the right to involve law enforcement if they choose to.
✏️ Support students in thriving at school by decreasing law enforcement involvement in certain student behavioral issues.
Thank you, Assemblymember @ash_kalra, for authoring this bill with us and our co-sponsors. We are also proud of our multiple co-sponsors who helped pave the way to the bill’s passage.👏👏
➡️ Next stop: We’re heading to the CA State Senate. Stay tuned!
ALT A photo of the California State Capitol. Text overlay: The California Assembly has voted yes on a bill to reduce law enforcement interactions with students!
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It's been 70 years since Brown v. Board, and we still have a lot of work to do before that promise is fulfilled.
Join us next Weds. for our State of Black Education event in Sacramento, where we'll be unveiling the Black Education Report Card.
📌RSVP: tinyurl.com/SOBE24 – at Sacramento, CA
RIGHT NOW
Police Free Schools Organizers and Allies are in Sacramento at a hearing to voice their opposition for the proposed CA Bill 3038— a bill that would require all CA schools to have at least one armed police officer on campus.
Full Statement: blackorganizingproject.org/b…
B.O.P. retweeted
#ICYMI: LISTEN to our grantees speak about their local efforts to protect #schools, #students, and #families amid ongoing attacks that threaten public #education: hazenfdn.medium.com/fighting… @ARpanel1963 @AIMforPower @YouthRiseTX @BlackOrgProject
📸Snapshots from todays walk out led by Westlake Middle School's BSU.
Our youth are powerful, and they know what they will and won't stand for ✊🏾
