Youth
Youth Speakers & Representatives
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| Tatiana Barksdale Voices Of Liberation |
Adrian Vasquez Voices Of Liberation |
Jesse Winfrey Voices Of Liberation |
Sasha De La Cruz El Movimiento Estudiantes Latin@s |
Alexandra Ortega El Movimiento Estudiantes Latin@s |
Youth Platform & Demands
- 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.