Youth Voice Marching To Break "School-To-Prison Pipeline"

Youth Voice Marching To Break "School-To-Prison Pipeline"

Detroit youth organization Youth Voice held a march on Mar. 23 to bring attention to the lack of options for urban youth after high school, which often leads them directly to the juvenile and criminal justice systems. On Wednesday WDET's Craig Fahle Show spoke with Cheyenne Walker, Senior at Cody High School DIT and Executive Board Member of Youth Voice, Quentin McKinnon, Senior at Cody High School DIT and President of Youth Voice, Samuel Molnar, Community Organizer for Youth Voice, and Razul Zakie, Sophomore at Henry Ford High School, about the march and Youth Voice's efforts to stop the "school-to-prison pipeline."

Video Coverage of the Protest

For those unable to participate - this is what happened...
If you would like to know more about the topic of the School To Prison Pipeline please contact these sources:

• YouthVoice - facebook.com/youthvoicedetroit
• Detroit School Board - look in our calendar for their events. Watch the videos from Wednesday March 20 School Board Meeting giving testimony from students, educators and researchers.

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Detroit School Board Meeting Wednesday, Student Rally Saturday

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We stand at a point for action at this time. Our schools, our future, and our city will never be the same if the current flow of actions are left to continue. We need your presence at this crucial meeting. We need your information shared and to share information with you.

We live in revolutionary times and the message takes place at a given date, time, and location. Those involved set the stage for action.

AT THIS BOARD MEETING

- Detroit School for the Arts has a spokesperson at the event. The true story.
- The EAA has several spokespersons...the true story.
- We still need someone from the EAA gradeschools: calling all parents and students and teachers!
- The MEAP scores will be deconstructed
- The finances will be deconstructed
- The legal update will be explained
- Teachers, come talk about your contract if you wish; there will be committee assignments for all students, parents and Detroit voters and tax payers to sign up.

We will win but WE HAVE TO FIGHT. 

If we fight, we will win.

Where: Detroit Public Library 5201 Woodward Detroit MAIN LIBRARY
When: Starts at 5:00 p.m., end by 8:30 p.m.

STAND UP FOR Detroit STUDENTS!!

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Detroit Youth Takeover March

On Saturday March 23rd at 1:00 pm help Detroit Youth Voice stand up for education and say no to incarceration! No funding for learning but there is funding for prisons?! It is time DETROIT YOUTH take over and for adults to hear solutions to stop the school to prison pipeline! All ages are welcome! Make sure you email RSVP so we can send you all the info at detroitYOUTHtakeover@gmail.com

The location is 2727 Second Ave at Cass Park! Be there at 1pm! We will march to Wayne County Jail at 1:30pm (it is a mile away).

If you're bringing a car please email DetroitYOUTHtakeover@gmail.com so that we know you're coming for parking purposes.

Message Kayla Mason if you want to help out on the day.

Facebook event link

Honor Our Vote

The people of Michigan demanded justice by repealing Public Act 4 on November 6 

We told Governor Snyder that it was wrong to oppress local government through the Emergency Manager Law. That includes the Emergency Financial Manager Law which proceeded and was repealed March 16, 2011 to make way for Public Act 4.

Attorney General Bill Schuette delivered an opinion August 6, 2012 on the interpretation of how the repeals would be handled. However the people's opinion is not being considered by government, a government that was NOT set to rule OVER the people, but FOR the people. We will not rest until government sets justice straight by the desired will of the people. Tyrannical government was fought over 200 years ago - a "tea party" was held by revolutionaries to protest taxation without representation.

These repealed laws no longer have standing over the people. Reference Michigan Compiled Law section 8.4:

Effect of Repeal of Repealing Statute.
Whenever a statute, or any part thereof shall be repealed by a subsequent statute, such statute, or any part thereof, so repealed, shall not be revived by the repeal of such subsequent repealing statute. 

This week the people begin moving your asserted government within our local jurisdictions OUT. We celebrate Veterans Day by honoring their fight for our rights. The rights of the people to be heard and demand justice through legislature and courts that listen to the people.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 

On-air shows will have rallying calls to the public to join the actions coming up this week.

10:00 am Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts is served notice to quit. By noon we begin moving him out of the Fisher Building office.

Noon Rally at Fisher Building and in New Center Commons to evict Roy Roberts from Detroit Public Schools.

2:00 pm Financial Advisory Board meeting for the City of Detroit is being held one mile south at McGregor Conference Center on Wayne State University Campus, near the Law Library on Ferry Mall. We will march in solidarity from New Center to this meeting and serve notice to the FAB and others appointed through the Consent Agreement which has been protested by the people and was found in fault by Corporation Counsel.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012

9:00 am Detroit City Council Public Hearing on EMA Consulting Services Contract held at Coleman A Young Municipal Center, 2 Woodward Ave, Room 1340, Detroit - EMA is evaluating and restructuring Detroit Water & Sewage Dept (DWSD) to eliminate 80% of workforce.

9:00 am Cullor Family Court Date in 36th District Court - Judge Patricia Jefferson, 421 Madison, Room 432, Detroit - Eviction defense

10:00 am Detroit City Council session of the Whole held at Coleman A Young Municipal Center, 2 Woodward Ave, Room 1340, Detroit - rally in advance at the Spirit of Detroit. {agenda | new business | supporting documents}

11:00 am Bus to Lansing leaves from Northwest Activity Center

1:00 pm The public attends HR 6004 session regarding Legitimacy of EAA School District. Session to be held in the Anderson Building, 124 North Capitol Ave, Lansing 48909.

6:00 pm Detroit School Board Meeting at Detroit Public Library Main Branch, 5201 Woodward Ave, Detroit

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012 

10:00 am Elected School Board lawsuit in 36th District Court before Judge Ronald Giles, 421 Madison, Detroit - the creation of EAA was a move to destroy the school board.

10:00 am City Council Internal Operations Standing Committee held at Coleman A Young Municipal Building, 2 Woodward Ave, Room 1340, Detroit

1:00 pm City Council Budget Fnance and Audit Standing Committee held at Coleman A Young Municipal Building, 2 Woodward Ave, Room 1340, Detroit

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 

8:45 am Detroit Police, Fire Board with Paramount Homeowners defense in 36th Circuit Court before Judge Ronald Giles

There are MANY actions happening this week. We are suggesting the best way to keep abreast of what is happening to join the text messaging cell for Free Detroit.

Join The Text Message Cell

Compose a text message addressed to the number 23559 

The contents of the message is join @honormivote

You can get a list of commands by sending the message CMD or HELP

There is a web interface as well - you need to request a password by sending the command PASSWORD. Then visit the site at http://cel.ly with that password to access your profile and the cells you have joined through your phone. 

Detroit School Board Meeting - SUPPORT NEEDED

This morning a press conference was called by Detroit Public Schools yet Roy Roberts, Emergency Manager was not present. Those attending were LaMar Lemons (Board President), John Telford (Interim Superintendent Elect), George Washington (Legal Counsel), David Murray, and Tawanna Simpson (Board members at large).

Discussion for the meeting revolved around the changing hands of control over Detroit Public Schools. After 11 years out of the past 13 of ruling Detroit Public Schools the State of Michigan doesn't want to let go. They feel there still remains a financial emergency to be managed.

Public Act 4 - Emergency Manager Law Referendum

On August 2nd Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the Repeal of Public Act 4 should be placed on the Nov 6, 2012 ballot to be decided by the people of the State of Michigan. During that hearing questions to John Pirich, the attorney representing the Secretary of State asking if he understood that Public Act 72 was no longer a law in effect seemed not to sink in. Through the last few minutes of the hearing he seemed genuinely confused by what Justice Young was asking.

When Public Act 4 was placed into law in 2011 it repealed Public Act 72, at that time. (NOT IN THE FUTURE, OR EVEN NOW - Public Act 72 is no longer a law.) According to MCL 8.4 once a law has been repealed it cannot be revived by repeal of the subsequent law that had it repealed. We are currently sitting with suspension of Public Act 4, which isn't yet repealed - however Public Act 72 is repealed and has been since 2011. Attorney General Bill Schuette and the Governor's Press Secretary Sarah Wurfel have been saying that Public Act 72 is the law that we are now using - the problem is that was REPEALED.

So there you have it - the story that you aren't going to get from the mainstream press who are using the words of the officials, we have to dig in and get facts and report those findings to you.

Eviction Notice To Serve

 

Live Coverage of Meeting

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School Board Meeting Tonight

Detroit Board of Education will meet tonight at 5pm at Fredrick Douglass Academy, 2001 W Warren, Detroit. A meeting of the committee will start the night. During the meeting Interim Superintendent John Telford will be announced.

The report from the Free Press indicates the Attorney General and Roy Roberts intend to remove the Board of Education through an injunction which will be heard tomorrow, and gives additional details from the meeting this morning.