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Pixels For Peace
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The Need for Long Term Solutions
If every soul mattered in this world to every person, it would be a different world. If our lives were not so consumed with the shallowest of worries, perhaps our actions would better serve our Earth and our world house. If activism was a lifestyle rather than a post...
Combating Indifferences towards Homelessness
This Saturday the Freedom Center visited an encampment to meet with two comrades, Andrea and Greg, in Oakland. Greg and Andrea, two people with very different philosophies, have learned to live together. Their struggle of homelessness is one that requires forgiveness...
To Be of Use
Common good or I feel good? You don’t put a band-aid on a broken leg. Hand you an ice pack when you’re bleeding out. Give you a dollar and ignore your concussion. Where are you going to spend it when you can’t walk? That’s benefitting me alone. I feel like I did...
Organizing to Move Forward
We have goals that we not only want to achieve but need to achieve. Theories, practices, and challenges take us down the road to justice. Square wheels will not move us. Triangular wheels delay the much-needed process. Organizing, constructing relationships, and...
Hopeful World
In the morning, the sun rises,Hope across the world. Toddlers play, parents watch, hand out applesauceJoyous world. In the temple, monks meditate.Peaceful world. In the Capitol, white supremacists murder.Mocking democracy and the peopleFear wounds, fear...
Forty of our youth leaders and staff came together last weekend to dig deep into understanding the myth of the...
Freedom Center students are committed and hard-working, and they engender hope for a brighter and more humane future. They make...
Today is the 55th anniversary of The Black Panther Party.
Black Panthers Co-Founder and Chairman Bobby Seale...
Thank you Attorney General Rob Bonta for making safety and justice for all priorities in California and the Bay Area....
Freedom Center youth leaders discuss the dichotomy of sorrow and kindness.
It is important for us...
We are thrilled to pay tribute to Betty Reid Soskin on her 100th birthday tomorrow, September 22. We are grateful...
Staff, Student and
Guest Articles
The Need for Long Term Solutions
If every soul mattered in this world to every person, it would be a different world. If our lives were not so consumed with the shallowest of worries, perhaps our actions would better serve our Earth and our world house. If activism was a lifestyle rather than a post...
Combating Indifferences towards Homelessness
This Saturday the Freedom Center visited an encampment to meet with two comrades, Andrea and Greg, in Oakland. Greg and Andrea, two people with very different philosophies, have learned to live together. Their struggle of homelessness is one that requires forgiveness...
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN: Inaugural International Day for People of African Descent
Pixels For Peace
Creating Community
Forty of our youth leaders and staff came together last weekend to dig deep into understanding the myth of the Thanksgiving story and learn the truth about Native American history and culture from members of Yolo County’s Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation.
Students...
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