What are some of the qualities of a good facilitator?
Synthesizing, listening, pop ed
Define organizing
Organizing is the process of building organizations of oppressed people who use their collective power to win changes in people's lives and shift the balance of power. (Source: SOUL)
what is YJPU's mission?
YJPU's mission is to build collective power in an effort to address systemic issues at the root happening in communities and confront them through organizing and direct action.
What was the name of the group who created the free breakfast programs for schools, free health clinic and sickle cell testing center?
Black Panthers
What is our multi issue campaign?
Defund the police and redirect the money into youth jobs, mental health crisis response, affordable housing and the participatory budget
what is a facilitator's role?
Your role as facilitators is to make content easier to understand
Define capitalism
A system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
What is a power chart and how is it used in our work?
The power chart is a tool that is used to understand who holds more power based on different identities they hold

Civil rights movement: was a nonviolent social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation
What is the difference between identity vs characteristics?
An identity is the collective set of characteristics by which a thing or person is definitively recognized or known (gender, race, social class, ability,)
a characteristic is a distinguishing trait, quality, or property (kind, team player, foodie)
what is popular education?
Pop ed is a process which aims to empower people who feel marginalized socially and politically to take control of their own learning and to effect social change.
Pop ed believes that everyone teaches and everyone learns because the answers are among the people
What is a campaign?
an organized course of action to achieve a goal.
Can you define Zionism?
Zionism is a national movement that is specific to the ways Israel wants to build a Jewish state by any means without the presence of Palestinians.
What is the name of the Boston Black Feminist collective that addressed the realities of queer and trans black women- that were left out and excluded from the activist movements?
What are the five I's?
Internalized, interpersonal, institutional, ideological, intersectional
What is the banking model?
Banking model is the system that believes that there is only one right answer and that the teachers hold those correct answers
define liberation
the process of freeing ourselves from the systems that are oppressing us
What are the 5 components of emotional intelligence?
Self-awareness—knowing one's strengths, weaknesses, drives, values, and impact on others
Self-regulation—controlling or redirecting disruptive impulses and moods
Motivation—relishing achievement for its own sake
Empathy—understanding other people's emotional makeup
Social skill—building rapport with others to move them in desired directions

The stonewall riot were a series of protests by members of the LGBTQ community in response to a police raid
Stonewall riot gave birth to pride and the importance to center Black and Brown LGBT folks !
What is the difference between organizing and activism?
Organizing is the long term act/commitment to shifting the power dynamics (planning and strategizing an action)
Activism is the short term act/commitment to shifting power dynamics (ex. attending a protest, events)
What are the different components of the spiral model?
1. begin with the experience of the learner
2. look for patterns
3. add information/framework and develop an analysis
4. practice new skill, and plan for action
5. Apply action
What is the fight for structural care mean?
what are the different branches in our federal government and what do they do?
Legislative branch:
Responsible for laws/budget
Composed of congress (elected officials members across the country)
For a law to be passed it has to be voted and have the majority in each of the two bodies
executive branch:
Enforces the laws
Head of the branch is the president (elected every 4 years)
cabinet departments (each department led by a secretary has a specific responsibility) Departments (State, defense, agriculture, education)
judicial branch:
Responsible for interpreting laws
Consist of the court system (supreme court) most important court
Settles criminal cases and lawsuits based on how the law is applied
Who were the groups who fought for the youth passes in Boston?
REEP, BYOP, Youth affordability Coalition, YJPU
Name 3 city counsilors?

HENRY SANTANA

JULIA MEJIACity

ERIN MURPHY

GABRIELA COLETTA

ED FLYNN

JOHN FITZGERALD

BRIAN WORRELL

ENRIQUE J. PEPÉN

BENJAMIN J. WEBER

TANIA FERNANDES

SHARON DURKAN

LIZ BREADON