Alianza for Opportunity

Working nationally to foster thriving Latine/x, Afro-Latine/x, and Indigenous communities rooted in dignity, healing, and opportunity.

[Alianza for Opportunity @Alianza4All]

RESCHEDULE 🗓RSVP to our webinar “Abolish Fees & Fines in Brown Communities” on August 31st: https://t.co/DeD6clHKVK

Join us for this webinar to learn how you can take empowered action to eliminate harmful & ineffective fees and fines charged by the youth justice system.

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Please tag any other orgs, especially system-impacted led orgs! #EndMassIncarceration #TransformativeJustice

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If you want to deepen your understanding of youth justice and solidarity with system-impacted folks, please check out the following orgs:

🧡 @debtfreejustice
🧡 @YouthJusticeLA
🧡 @JustLeadersUSA
🧡 @Advocates_4YJ
🧡 @YouthJusticeNY

#YouthJustice

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Alberto's impact has been such that the city of San Diego proclaimed September 12 “Alberto ‘Beto’ Vasquez Day” in recognition of his work in and around the city.

Gracias and felicidades Alberto for your existence and all your work!

[Alianza for Opportunity @Alianza4All]

Today we honor Alberto ‘Beto’ Vazquez!

Alberto Vasquez is a first-generation college student and a father of four. Born and raised in San Diego’s Logan Heights, he is currently is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in biology at University California, San Diego.

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He has been instrumental in successfully implementing programs supporting underserved communities, disenfranchised populations and students of color.

[The Sentencing Project @SentencingProj]

Our report, “Too Many Locked Doors,” shows that despite a decade of reform, children are locked in juvenile detention centers or youth prisons about 250,000 times a year -- and that youth of color are vastly more likely to have the harshest punishments. https://t.co/zwHBoro672

[Kelly Davis @kellylynndavis]

"Jails and prisons are fundamentally places of confinement and control rather than treatment, healing and health." https://t.co/QPb8PrJW02

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Police in Kansas raided the hospital room of a 69-year-old man who's terminally ill just for vaping THC to relieve his pain.

Greg Bretz is in the final stages of an inoperable cancer, but unfortunately, medicinal weed is illegal in Kansas.

This is your tax dollars hard at work.

[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

Doctors, nurses: please don’t be cops.

“Police raided a terminally ill Kansas man’s hospital room because he allegedly used a weed vape and THC paste to ease the symptoms of the cancer that will kill him within weeks... [he] is set to appear in court"
https://t.co/CXkfyryq8P

[Matthew Hahn @hahnscratch]

An observation my father made after visiting me in prison for a few years: cops are the only profession that gets ultimate authority over other human beings without ever having to earn it. They don't have to learn how to communicate, how to manage people, how to settle disputes.

[Alianza for Opportunity @Alianza4All]

Our hope is to increase cultural sensitivity, support the intentional distribution of resources, and uplift Chicana/o, Indigenous, Afro-Latino, Hispanic, LGBTQ, Girls, Latinx Youth.

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An update on our End the Data Gap work! La Alianza is taking part in a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) pilot in Cook Country, Illinois.

Read more about it 🧵 #YouthJustice #EndMassIncarceration #NoKidsinCages

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The goal of this initiative is to create a more inclusive conversation around race and ethnicity that helps combat the erasure of different ethnic groups throughout the country.

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This is incredibly hard work, but through all its ups and downs critical hope requires educators to continue believing they can do what they’ve never done before."

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Critical hope is a pedagogical tool that addresses unjust systems through meaningful dialogue and empathic responses (Zembylas, 2014). By acknowledging and naming injustice, we can more meaningfully be aware of what we can do and act.

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Schwatz wrote in KEQD: "To achieve critical hope educators have to combine material resources, like great teaching, with fierce love for students demonstrated with actions, not words...