Youth Disenfranchisement and the School-To-Prison Pipeline

Tune in this Friday for a show focused on the school-to-prison pipeline, discussing the long history of youth disenfranchisement in communities of color, gang culture, institutionalized zero-tolerance policies and the consequences for our collective future.

We will play a presentation by Carlos Chavez, Executive Director of Morpheus Youth Project, to an Inside-Out Capstone class at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility. Carlos spoke to a class of college students, some visiting from PSU and some living at MacLaren, about the long history of disenfranchisement of Latino and African American youth in Los Angeles to contextualize both the creation of gangs and the inappropriate responses of schools and education departments across the country to the reality of school-age youth in communities of color.

We will also played an interview with Carlos Chavez conducted right after he gave the presentation to the Capstone class, where he describes the work that his organization, Morpheus Youth Project, Transformation Through Art and Awareness, does in East Portland to support youth in school and at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility to prevent further alienation of our youth.

You can learn more about Morpheus Youth Project by clicking here, and about their upcoming fundraising event at Mississippi Pizza Pub on Friday, Nov. 13th at 9:00PM by clicking here.

This Friday on Bread and Roses, we will also learn about a new project entitled: Free As The Sun, Lou's Songs of Life. Rhonda Case, the mother of the late Louis Debruge, will talk to us about this multimedia project to share the music, poetry, song lyrics, essays and journal writing of Louis who died last year at age 17.

"Free As The Sun gives voice to one brilliant young man’s experience of traumatic childhood abuse and his sorrows as he struggled with addiction.  It will become a powerful resource for discussion and for healing in many therapeutic settings." Learn more at www.FreeAsTheSun.com

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