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Click to donate by check. California Youth Unite to Upset the Setup. With one hand caressing the mic, and the other shaped into a fist, "raptivist" and emcee Rashidi Omari, of the Oakland-based hip hop group Company of Prophets, sounds loud beats over political spoken word and conscious lyrics into a heated high school auditorium.

Glance around to his audience: a motley crew of high schoolers, b-boys, breakers, feminists and lyricists, sporting dreadlocks, afros, baggy jeans, Mumia shirts and Che buttons. In other words, they represent California's newest — and youngest — generation of organizers. This month around youth gathered for the fourth annual "Upset the Setup" conference in Oakland, Ca. In the tradition of — a protest concert that drew thousands of youth in the last two years against a proposed SuperJail in Alameda county — the "Upset the Setup" conference uses cultural protest and resistance through music, art, politics and hip hop to educate and empower youth in the methods of effective organizing strategies and protest.

Khadine Bennett, project director with the Youth Force Coalition , the group that hosted the conference, explained that the conference was founded to bridge youth organizations that work on different issues and with different identities and to illustrate how the prison industrial complex intersects with all their issues.

Many groups hosted interactive workshops educating and linking issues from the local to the global, ranging from the fight for ethnic studies in California highs school to methods of guerrilla art organizing against Bush's war on Iraq. Californians for Justice gave a workshop on campaigning against the High School Exit Exam, a new requirement that will be applied to California's graduating class of They argue that the exam is already proven to be racist, and in schools where it has been administered, the dropout rate has increased.

Most students left the workshop shocked by the amount of information they never knew about Middle East politics. The Birth of a Coalition When California began passing measures in the late 90s aimed at controlling its youth, such as zero tolerance laws, three strike laws and adult transfers, a new generation of urban high school organizers was born.

The Youth Force Coalition, a coalition of 30 social justice groups in the Bay Area, also originated in this struggle. It formed in at the Critical Resistance conference, an event that connected thousands of youth organizations from across the country working to address America's ballooning prison industrial complex.

Youth Force later coalesced around the Proposition 21 campaign in Prop 21 is what many organizers still refer to as the "War on Youth initiative"; it created tougher sentences and pushed year-olds into adult courts and year-olds into adult prisons. Post Pagination Next Post Next. Are you on the lookout for some great prank songs lyrics to text people?

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