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Guest Articles
Pixels For Peace
Creating Community
The Power of Love
Love is a tool. It is a valuable resource that transforms our community into becoming a more unified and peaceful place. There are multiple ways to use love. To better our society, we have to use the power of love with good intent and for justice. White supremacy and...
Shout for Justice
Justice in our country is asked for, shouted for in the streets. Some of us fail to recognize the accounts of those who need justice. Hardly do high ranking, rich and powerful officials, judges, and policemen live in the anguish of oppression. Yet, their accounts are...
Work for a More Just Education System
Educational institutions have a habit of dismissing themselves from students' circumstances. They claim that it is outside their jurisdiction therefore it is not their concern. This habit contributes to our children becoming left behind. It takes dedicated work to...
Learning as Conduct
Learning is a physical act, a conduct. We do not learn from just thinking about an idea, we learn from doing actions that connect ideas to the real world. If we take away our conduct, learning becomes a void. We are just memorizing facts without connecting them to the...
Friendly or hostile? Our Capacity to Choose
Dr. King teaches, as humans we are born neither inherently hostile, nor inherently friendly. Instead, we are born with the capacity to choose. We can choose to, and thus be, both good and bad. We can choose to unify or choose to disunify. To create harmony, or chaos....
We must use our time wisely to create nonviolent social change.
Returning from the 2021 To Us,...
"We've got work to do!"
Meeting with Bobby Seale, Co-founder of the Black Panther Party. We discussed...
To Us, You Matter Spring Civic Engagement Tour
We're on the road meeting with elected officials, community...
Some of our youth leaders share takeaways from the beginning of our 2021 To Us, You Matter spring bootcamp.
Our youth leaders and staff began our To Us, You Matter spring bootcamp in the forest contemplating and writing about...
“Each of us can be the spark that ignites the flame and thirst for justice in our brothers and sisters.”
Staff, Student and
Guest Articles
The Power of Love
Love is a tool. It is a valuable resource that transforms our community into becoming a more unified and peaceful place. There are multiple ways to use love. To better our society, we have to use the power of love with good intent and for justice. White supremacy and...
Shout for Justice
Justice in our country is asked for, shouted for in the streets. Some of us fail to recognize the accounts of those who need justice. Hardly do high ranking, rich and powerful officials, judges, and policemen live in the anguish of oppression. Yet, their accounts are...
Work for a More Just Education System
Educational institutions have a habit of dismissing themselves from students' circumstances. They claim that it is outside their jurisdiction therefore it is not their concern. This habit contributes to our children becoming left behind. It takes dedicated work to...
Pixels For Peace
Creating Community
We must use our time wisely to create nonviolent social change.
Returning from the 2021 To Us, You Matter spring civic engagement bootcamp, our youth leaders share some of their thoughts about self-transformation and strengthening democracy.
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