Tekoah Flory
Labor Community Strategy Center
As a Queer black Boi in the city of Los Angeles I have seen my family community and city constantly wrestling with the amount of racial tension that we have. I believe that we need a multigenrational movement to really make effective changes in this countries systems of power.
Presentations from Facing Race 2012
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
This workshop is intended to assist participants in addressing educational pushout and the criminalization of K-12 students in their respective communities. We will with a brief overview of the relevant issues, their causes, and their impact followed by case studies of resistance, involving an interactive discussion around actual examples of local and state organizing campaigns, and the lessons learned from them. Finally, participants will work in small groups to develop policy agendas and strategies for addressing the issue in their communities.
Speakers: Tekoah Flory, Laura Lemus, Scott Roberts