Category: local

Jóvenes en Acción (Youth in Action)

Jóvenes en Acción (Youth in Action), is a ten-month civic education and leadership program, which begins with a four-week exchange experience in the US. Participants are between 15-18 years old and selected as project teams of four to five students from diverse communities throughout Mexico. This year, the two teams visiting the US are working on anti-discrimination projects. Some of the panelists who presented at ICR, spoke to Jóvenes en Acción today, at MCC. They included Will Barrett, Halima Aweis, Milo Ehrenberg and Nate Baldo. Here are some pictures.

Buffalo: Protest demands closure of camps on Southern border

part of buffalo is shut down by protests and consequent arrests. we need more of this. #closethecamps

‘The coalition behind the protest includes members of the Buffalo chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, Justice for Migrant Families WNY, and the New York Immigration Coalition. Families, including children, attended the event, which is linked to protests going on across the country. Organizers were also in touch and coordinating with Never Again Action, a Jewish organization responsible for carrying out protests and direct action in multiple states. More here.

Countering white supremacy: panel on Evan Dawson’s show

For those who missed yesterday’s event at the Islamic Center of Rochester on ‘Countering white supremacy: connecting the dots between anti-Semitism, anti-Black racism and Islamophobia,’ pls tune in to WXXI‘s Connections. Samiha Islam, Milo Ehrenberg, Assata Evans and myself talked about that community discussion with Evan Dawson. You can listen here.

end to a rousing program

the last ones to leave 🙂

after a rousing program led by muslim, jewish and black youth and a discussion on ‘countering white supremacy: connecting the dots between anti-semitism, anti-black racism and islamophobia,’ at the islamic center this evening. it was attended by 150 people who listened to youth activists and poets, engaged in a group discussion, and then had dinner together. how i love my rochester community.

photograph by nate baldo

legal diversity clerkship program

wonderful to #welcome the 2019 rochesterny #legal #diversity #clerkship #students today 
it’s a program of the #monroecounty #bar #association, the rochester #black bar association, and the greater rochester association for #women #attorneys 
i was the only #actvist #filmmaker in a sea of #lawyers but felt v welcome
by my #brilliant friends david tang and louise spinelli.