Black Panther Alumni are Training Future Revolutionary Social Scientists

An RSS is someone who observes their surroundings, analyzes people as well as events, identifies problems and contradictions, does research, then implements action based on their final analysis.

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Fighting the Mis-Education in Special Education

“No parent wants their child to be mislabeled. I refused to accept that and they learned the hard way that I was not that parent they could play with.” – Joy Elan.

Joy Elan is an Oakland based writer with a daughter who was misdiagnosed in her previous school as autistic. Elan describes why it was important for her to challenge that label while describing the years long effort to change take the label off her daughters school record.

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Moms 4 Housing Are Not Taking Your Homes

I’ve been standing in the middle of a homeless crisis, watching how everyone is responding to it. On one side are the politicians talking, taking too long to do anything about it. On the other side, we have groups of activists and organizations taking care of homeless encampments helping them relocate, spilling onto the city hall steps near the line where the politicians stand.

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Moms 4 Housing Create Blueprint for Effective Housing Advocacy

Since Dominique Walker of Moms 4 Housing moved into a vacant house on Magnolia Street with her children and several other women from the advocacy group on Nov. 18, 2019, a movement began to build in support of their messaging.

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