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New Year, New Youth!

This 2015 make your resolution to help build leadership skills and resilience among the youth in communities most vulnerable to incarceration!

Help us raise 5k in 15 days!

THE DANDELION RISING LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE is a 6 month program that develops students’ (age 16-24) skills in effective organizing and public leadership. It is also intended to help develop their political consciousness so they can find their voice in the larger movement for social change. We have worked with over 200 YouthBuildstudents since November 2012 to organize within their communities, run campaigns, and give testimony at the county Board of Supervisors meetings.

Your donation will support our 2015 goals to:

Work closely with 20 students over the course of two 6-month programs
Ensure that each student attends a political education class each week
Help each student be successful in organizing with formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones
Have each student organize 5 new members into Dignity and Power Now by the end of their program
Make sure each student understands and particpates in two major campaigns: stopping the two billion dollar jail plan and the implementation of a comprehensive mental health diversion plan for Los Angeles County
Have each student deliver testimony to the county Board of Supervisors
Provide resources so at the end of the program the students can put together an event to showcase what they’ve learned and how they plan to further the fight of abolition in Los Angeles County

Make 2015 the year of education, action, and abolition!

Donate now for a NEW YEAR, NEW YOUTH!

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VICTORY! Civilian Review Board is Approved

When The Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in LA Jails first started two and a half years ago we had a vision that the Black and Brown people who bear the brunt of sheriff violence would have the power to end human rights abuses in the largest jail system in the world.

For two years we have built a movement of formerly incarcerated people, their families, and communities to push the county to implement independent civilian oversight of the Sheriff’s Department. Story after story of brutality by deputies have been transformed into a real victory for our loved ones on the inside and on the streets of LA.

Today we get to claim our DIGNITY and our POWER!!!

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#GivingTuesday

We have a day for giving thanks, two days for getting deals, and now a national day for giving back. Celebrate your #GivingTuesday by donating to the movement to end institutionalized violence and help give dignity and power to all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.

We are so proud of all of the work we have accomplished and are excited about continuing to build our small but mighty organization. Your donation will support both our diligent staff and our dynamic programs. Please consider supporting your community and the movement to end institutionalized violence by making a donation today.

DONATE NOW!

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Statement on Non-Indictment of Darren Wilson

My condelences to the parents and family of Mike Brown.

My name is Patrisse Cullors and I am the director of Dignity and Power Now and co founder of Black Lives Matter. This decision to not indict Darren Wilson from the grand jury in St. Louis further perpetuates the culture of anti blackness. St. Louis has set the precedent that Black people can be murdered by law enforcement and no one will hold them accountable.

This is a time for clearer and more radical demands, as well as clearer and more radical action.

The only way to end state violence is to divest from law enforecement and invest in community support, care and resilience.

Signing off from Cuba.