Podcasts about jitu brown

With the issues surrounding the youths in the city the past few weekends, the discussion on how to handle the situation taken the forefront. WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore is joined by Jitu Brown, Shannon Bennett & Assata Lewis to discuss the problem and offer up how to change the perception of young people within the city. Jitu Brown is the National Director of Journey for Justice Alliance. Shannon Bennett is the Executive Director of the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization. Assata Lewis is an educational consultant for the non-profit GoodKidsMadCity-Englewood.

MAGA wins in Virginia and almost in New Jersey. Democrats panic. Ben riffs. Monroe Anderson talks about what went wrong for Dems and what they have to do to change course. And legendary Chicago activist Jitu Brown makes his podcast debut to talk about community empowerment. In short, don't move right, Dems, out of fear.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In Chicago, one of the most segregated American cities, race and proximity to quality healthcare are inextricably linked, and the divide has been exacerbated COVID19 continues to infect and kill Black people disproportionately. At the same time, Black Chicagoans are seeing hospitals in their communities closing at an alarming rate. Since 2018, three hospitals have closed on the South and West sides. And now a fourth, Mercy Hospital, the oldest in the city, is slated to close next year. Host Trymaine Lee talks to activist Jitu Brown, who says Mercy has a duty to remain open and continue to serve the mostly Black surrounding neighborhoods. Etta Davis, a patient at Mercy, says the hospital’s plan to open a new outpatient clinic makes her worried about what could happen in an emergency. But Dr. Thomas Britt of the Health Policy Institute of Chicago, says Mercy, which loses $4 million a month, is in too much debt and serves too many underinsured patients to continue to under its current model. He says elected officials and healthcare providers need to think outside the box to better serve communities. For a transcript, please visit https://www.msnbc.com/intoamerica. Further Reading: Mercy Hospital Announces Closure After Operating for Nearly 170 Years

According to Jitu Brown, the organizer’s job is to create a space where people can begin to actually envision what they want to see, then create the experiences where people begin to win. The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism that is embedded in our educational system. Jitu reflects on his work as National Director of Journey for Justice Alliance (J4J), which defends public education against school closings, turnarounds, phase-outs, and charter expansion. To combat institutionalized racism present in public schools, J4J has begun organizing campaigns at the local and federal level for sustainable community schools, calling for 25,000 by 2025.

Join Atlantic Fellows JITU BROWN (Racial Equity), ROSE LONGHURST (Social & Economic Equity) and TYLER SPENCER (Health Equity) as they discuss the future for non-profits post Covid-19 in the global north. The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is based in Oxford, England and works to promote connection and collaboration among Fellows from the seven Atlantic equity-focused programmes around the world in their quest for fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. SPEAKERS JITU BROWN | Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity https://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org/meet-our-fellows ROSE LONGHURST | Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity https://afsee.atlanticfellows.org/rose-longhurst TYLER SPENCER | Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity https://healthequity.atlanticfellows.org/tyler-spencer FURTHER INFORMATION Atlantic Fellows | www.atlanticfellows.org/about Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity | https://racialequity.atlanticfellows.org/ Atlantic Fellows for Social & Economic Equity | http://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Atlantic-Fellows-programme Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity US & Global | https://www.atlanticfellows.org/for-health-equity

Join our host as we talk with 2 leaders from Oakland and New Orleans about school privatization and the gentrification of America's urban spaces.

Jitu Brown chops it up with New Jersey community organizers Rosie Grant, Johnnie Lattner and Faheem Lee. The right to elect school boards was snatched away from Black NJ Cities. Determined coalition building & organizing won it back. Don’t slip! Listen in!

Jitu Brown chats with Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, national field organizer at the Dignity in Schools Campaign & Jonathan Stith, national director at the Alliance for Education Justice, about work to dismantle the school to prison pipeline!

A silent epidemic happening across the US is the purge of black teachers from public school classrooms. Jitu Brown talks with 2 leaders who are fighting back: Tara Stamps from the Chicago Teachers Union and Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price from PULSE in Newark NJ.

Brother Jitu Brown talks to Shawni Robinson and Anna Simonton about the"Atlanta Cheating Scandal" and incarcerated black teachers! As Public Enemy said years ago; Don't believe the hype!

Jitu Brown spends time with Warriors from Grassroots Arkansas, who are waging a campaign to not only win back their right to vote but to finally force Arkansas to realize equity in public education. Racism knows no Shame.

What is the alternative to school closings & the charter school industry? Sustainable community schools! Jitu Brown talks with Kyle Serrette of the NEA & John Projansky, resource coordinator at Drake Elementary, a sustainable community school in Chicago!

Jitu Brown talks with Sharon Smith & Johnnie Latner, co-founders of PULSE (Parents Unified for Local School Education), to discuss the monumental impact this grassroots organization has made on the education justice movement in Newark & across New Jersey.

Join Brother Jitu as he builds with education justice warriors Mike Hutchinson and Megan Bumpus. They discuss the Oakland teacher’s strike and the power of authentic coalition building between community and union to win equity in public education.

Jitu Brown is joined by NJ organizers Genese Dean, Byheijja Sabree & Ronsha Dickerson. They discuss the sabotage of public education in Camden where a manufactured budget deficit of 27 million dollars is being used as an excuse to shut down public schools.

Racial Justice NOW! Director H.A. Jabar talks with Jitu Brown of the Journey for Justice Alliance. They peel back the layers of a corrupt system and give listeners a real peek into how the machinery of oppression works through the institutions of society.

Jitu Brown is joined by Mother Helen Moore of Keep the Vote No Takeover, Mark Rosenbaum of Public Counsel & Stephen Farrar of the Detroit Life Coalition. Learn how they’re using litigation, legislation & agitation to win equity in Public Education.

Jitu Brown digs deep with historian Dr. Yohuru Williams, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of St Thomas. They discuss the importance of organizers understanding the Civil rights & Black Power movements as we carry out our work today.

Jitu Brown talks with organizers Sharon Smith of Newark NJ & Jalida Bennett of Chicago IL. Listen & learn as they share the nuts and bolts of parent organizing and building a committed base of people to win campaigns against powerful corporate interests.

Jitu Brown speaks with Zakiyah Ansari of the Alliance for Quality Education and Natasha Capers of the NY Coalition for Education Justice about how Black parents successfully organized and pushed public education to the forefront of the NY mayoral race.

Jitu Brown chops it up with Pittsburgh Organizers Angel Gober, Paulette Foster & Susie South. From kicking out a transient teacher factory to winning a K-2nd grade suspension ban, these kick-butt women prove organized people can beat organized money!

Jitu Brown chops it up with Michigan organizers Marletta Seats, Kamau Kheperu, & Dr. Tom Pedroni. Benton Harbor schools are in danger of a state takeover. Takeover equals privatization. Privatization equals sabotage for the education of our black children.

Jitu Brown chops it up with Jalida Bennett of Kenwood Oakland Community Org. in Chicago and Maria Harmon of Step Up Louisiana. Be inspired by the lived experiences and victories of powerful warriors who make racial justice the center of their organizing.

Jitu Brown chops it up with Jawanza Malone of Kenwood Oakland Community Org. & Francisco Duenas of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. It’s a fight against gentrification as these organizers battle for rent control in Chicago and L.A.

Jitu Brown is joined by Mercedes Martinez and Lourdes Antebella, two leaders who have been central in the inspiring resistance against the Puerto Rican government's efforts to privatize education after Hurricane Maria! FIGHT THE POWER!

Jitu Brown meets with four teenage leaders and their adult supervisor who demonstrate "Black Girl Magic" through their courage & steadfast commitment in demanding accountability for the disappearance of Black women in Chicago.

Join Brother Jitu in an important conversation with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. as he discusses the assassination of his father Chairman Fred Hampton, his work in the struggle & efforts to save The Hampton House, his father's childhood home. Don’t miss it!

Jitu Brown speaks to Hasira "Soul" Achemu, executive director of Breaking our Chains and Rachel Sandoval, union rep with the Denver Classroom Teacher’s Assoc. about the teachers’ strike in Denver. Tune in and get “that real lit” from people ON THE GROUND.

Kitty Kelly Epstein interviews Jitu Brown, a leader of the national movement, Journey4Justice. He discusses their long and successful fight to save a historic African-American high school in Chicago, his analysis of the national struggle for racial justice and public education, and their outstanding education platform. (https://www.j4jalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/J4J_Final_Education_Platform.pdf) The post Jitu Brown in conversation with Kitty Kelly appeared first on KPFA.

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Jitu Brown, National Director of the Journey 4 Justice Alliance, and Albert Sykes, Executive Director of IDEA (Institute for Democratic Education in America), about the next chapter in education justice organizing.

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/OTG-JULY15-2016.mp3 In the week after three Black men were shot to death by police at point-blank range, the Black Lives Matter movement is the only movement that is standing between the survival of Black lives and the normalization of our murder. If there is no protest then our murder is normal and normalized. A conversation with author and activist Gerald Horne, plus Danez Smith at the Brave New Voices: International Youth Poetry Slam Festival at The John F. Kennedy Center. Headlines: -Teachers, parents and community organizers gathered here in DC for the Save Our Schools People’s March for Public Education & Social Justice, with portions of remarks from 12-year-old Asean Johnson and Jitu Brown of Chicago. -Kevin Poole of Pennsylvania was one of the Black farmers who gathered outside the Supreme Court to protest what they say is “unremitting discrimination” from the United States Department of Agriculture. -Organizations such as Food and Water Watch are asking the public to contact the white house and urge President Obama to veto the so-called Dark Act, which they say will leave consumers in the dark about whether or not their food contains genetically modified ingredients. -Newly released federal documents reveal that the U.S. has approved fracking offshore leading to billions of gallons of wastewater to be dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. -A 15-turbine wind farm was approved by Long Island Power Authority off the coast of eastern Long Island. -In DC, neighbors in Lincoln Park and across the district are forming a co-op with the help of DC SUN to make it easier to save money on the purchase of solar panels. -Culture and Media Links: SaveOurSchoolsMarch.org SchoolHouseLive.org SaneEnergy Brave New Voices

Chicago’s southside neighborhood of Bronzeville has been making waves: a group of parents from the community engaged in a 34 day hunger strike to fight for their neighborhood high school, Walter H. Dyett… Continue reading →