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Carissa Purnell Salinas Public Library 2012 Eureka! Leadership Institute Social Justice Academy funded in part by The California State Library, Library
Carissa Purnell Salinas Public Library 2012 Eureka! Leadership
Institute Social Justice Academy funded in part by The California
State Library, Library Services And Technology Act (LSTA) and the
California Endowment Building Healthy Communities Initiative.
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Racism Education Injustice Prison Industrial Complex Media
White Privilege Institutionalized Oppression Immigration Policy
Voting Regulations Poverty Health Built Environment Democracy
Advocacy Community Organizing Social Movements Historical Context
Philosophy Politics
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WHY do our youth need to know this content? (Shouldnt schools
be teaching this?)
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In Salinas 100% of the children in the 93905 qualify for free
and reduced lunch. POVERTY The Alisal District has been the worst
performing district in the state for 4 consecutive years. EDUCATION
The homicide rate among Monterey County youths led California
counties in 2009 and was nearly three times the state as a whole, a
report released Monday said. And from there, the news doesn't get
better: Monterey County had 50 percent more youth homicides per
capita than Alameda, the California county with the next-highest
rate (Violence Policy Center, California Department of Justice data
and looked at homicide victims ages 10 to 24) VIOLENCE We are a
Latino city (74%) and the life expectancy is lower for black and
brown communities, with higher reported cases of heart disease,
hyper tension, diabetes, and obesity. HEALTH
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but what is CRITICAL thinking We see the data so how do we
change it CRITICAL THINKING
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Everything happens for a reason
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Theres a reason for WHY things happen
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The Salinas Public Library Is designed to identify those
reasons why, to explore the historical context, motive, impact, and
find solutions and this is how
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the texts Pedagogy of the Oppressed The Art of Critical
Pedagogy The Autobiography of Malcom X Angela Davis An
Autobiography The Rose That Grew From Concrete Union of Their
Dreams Book of Rhymes: The Poetics Of Hip Hop Learning to Teach for
Social Justice Millennials, Activism and Race Hope on a Tightrope
Democracy Matters The Prince The Art of War the authors
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the music Immortal Technique Billy Holiday Lupe Fiasco Tupac
Shakur Drake Jay-Z MosDef Common Lauryn Hill
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The Spook Who Sat By The Door Unnatural Causes (PBS) Sin Pas
Which Way Home El Corrido de Cecilia Rios A Hard Straight the
films
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Community Events The Loss of Our Cultural Identity/ La Perdida
de la Identidad Cultural Racial Equity and Structural Racism/
Equidad Racial y Racismo Estructural
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I live in a state of POVERTY in Salinas student work
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Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot
uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate
the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are
not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is
ours. -Cesar Chavez