Category: Willful Defiance Blogposts
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Hard Fought Victories: Racial Justice NOW! and the Removal of Police from Schools in Montgomery County
Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Racial Justice NOW! Emma Tynan, University of Massachusetts Boston Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts Boston The police-free schools movement emerged with great energy in the wake of the 2020 protests against police racism and violence and began to win victories removing or defunding school-based police officers. The past year, however, has seen…
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Devising Freedom: Responding to the Assaults on Trans and Queer Youth
LuzMarina Serrano Mark R. Warren Emma Tynan Trans and queer youth, especially youth of color, are under assault in this country. We hear about the prominent attacks, from banning transgender girls from playing school sports in Florida to criminalizing families who support their children’s transition in Texas. Indeed, over the past few years, more than…
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Caught in an Educational Dragnet: How the School-to-Deportation Pipeline Harms Immigrant Youth and Youth of Color
By Emma Tynan, Sarah Kim Pak, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, Mark R. Warren In 2017, a high school sophomore named Alex doodled the name of his Honduran hometown and his high school mascot on a desk. This small action, which could have been addressed by asking him to wash it off, started a chain of events…
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Restorative Justice: Authentic Responses to the “Pandemic-to-Prison Pipeline”
In the summer of 2020 community organizing groups led by students of color and their families rode the wave of mass protests against police racism and violence to begin to win their long-sought demand for police-free schools.
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Police-Free Schools: Challenging the “Pandemic-to-Prison” Pipeline
In the summer of 2020 community organizing groups led by students of color and their families rode the wave of mass protests against police racism and violence to begin to win their long-sought demand for police-free schools.