From Grove Hall to City Hall, From Around the Way
to Around the World, We doin' Good in the Hood.

Youth Representatives

Jesse Winfrey	Sofia Snow	Jelani Lynch

Youth Platform

• We demand an immediate stop to the killing. We can lose no more of our peers to street violence!

Black, Latino, Cape Verdean, Caribbean, Asian, we have all lost someone and enough is enough. We cannot continue to kill each other.  

• We demand a stop to the flow of guns and drugs into our communities. 
  
  
• We are tired of being criminalized by the system.
  
  
• We demand an end to the Safe Homes Initiative and a stop to Bill 4293.
  
  
• We demand an end to curfews and public loitering crackdowns. 
  
  
• We demand drastic reforms to the education in Boston.
  
  
• We demand education that is culturally relevant,
  accurate, adequate, and prepares us for college and economic empowerment.
  
  
• We demand adequate resources in the schools we attend.
  
  
• We demand support for undocumented youth wishing to attend higher education.
  
  
• We demand an end to the unfair MCAS test.
  
  
• We do not want our schools monitored by the Boston Police controlled Boston School Police.
  
  
• We demand a stop to the school prison pipeline.
  
  
• We want no more military recruiters in our schools and community centers. 
  
  
• We demand more teachers of color. 
  
  
• We demand access to stable adequate employment. 
  
  
• We demand an end to the unjust CORI laws.
  
  
• We demand more funding for job opportunities for all youth from all neighborhoods 
  
  
• We demand an end to police brutality.
  
  
• We are tired of being automatically targeted by police for harassment.
  
  
• We demand an end to racial profiling.
  
  
• We demand an end to unprovoked physical and verbal assault from the Boston Police Department.