YJPU 2024/2025
What is a testimony? What makes one effective?
A written or spoken statement
Effectiveness
- personal story
- why it matters
- clear ask/demands
What is the role of a facilitator?
What is our multi issue campaign?
Defund police and reinvest into Boston people's response, participatory budgeting, affordable housing, youth jobs
Name 3 workshops we've done at YJPU this year
- assessing power
- types of justice
- abolition and organizing
- facilitation workshop
What are three methods of outreach we have done?
- phone calls, texting, emails, in person
what is your role as core members?
help facilitate new participants in understanding the culture, work, and ways of YJPU
To take up more space and leadership throughout the school year
Be at the forefront in planning and executing our campaign work and actions.
what are our non negotiable community agreements?
Respecting people's pronouns, identity and experiences
Do not come to the program under the influence
Safe Space: Any threats to other people’s safety is taken very seriously and will result in a step three circle aimed at restoring safety and trust for the person impacted.
Ask for consent and be mindful of people’s boundaries
What is a campaign?
Bonus points: walk us through our campaign map
an organized course of action to achieve a goal.
campaign map
- YJPU workshop
- Movie night
-Townhall
- Meet with city council + testimonies
- March
- Petition drop
- Celebration
What was our townhall about?
purpose:
- to gather community input around safety alternatives, and about our campaign
- to gather information on where people think money should go
to educate community around the defund the police and the work thats happening here at yjpu
what is basebuilding?
The process of engaging and mobilizing community members to build collective power and create systemic change
Name 2 of our partners?
The City School
REEP
How many paid sick days can you take for the year (October-June) ?
9 (one per month)
What are our youth jobs demands?
hire more outreach workers
increase wage for 15-18 yrs old and 19-24 yrs old
Name the difference between punitive justice vs restorative/transformative justice?
Punitive-- punishment, blame, rules broken
Restorative-- addressing harm, repair, what are needs of people involved
transformative --transforming the larger system that contributed to harm
What was our YJPU Get out the vote?
Boston residents will vote on the 15 community generated PB proposals. YJPU demands around youth jobs was one of the proposal
What is a coalition we are a part of?
Unnamed Youth Organizing Network
how many MAX hours of homework are you able to get paid for per week?
10 hours a week
What is organizing?
a method of change that involves uniting with people who are most impacted by an issue to take direct action against power structures.
Simply put, community organizing means to unite to fight!
What powers does our mayor have?
What power does our city council have?
Mayor:
Develop an annual budget proposal
Execute laws/ordinances passed by the city council
Appoint and supervise department heads/officials
Oversee the administration functions of the city
Has authority to veto acts of the council
Oversee police officers, firefighters
Create schedules for garbage pick up, clearings for snow days
City council
Local laws
in charge on how local tax money is spent
Approve, reduce, or reject the budget proposal
what are the different elements necessary for a pitch?
intro /hook
problem
solution
Name the roles of each staff member
Charming:
Khalil:
Sukhai:
George:
Nosica
Charming: Program Coordinator
Khalil: Lead Campaign Organizer
Sukhai: Basebuilding Coordinator
George: Program Director
Nosica: Youth Worker
what is our circle of accountability process?
STEP 1: Staff follows up and remind youth of expectations and policies
STEP 2: Staff will set up a meeting and create a plan with youth
STEP 3: youth will be taken off core member team
Name 5 City Councilors
Ruthzee Louijene
Julia.Mejia
Erin Murphy
Henry Santana
Gabriela Zapata
Edward Flynn
John FitzGerald
Brian J. Worrell
Enrique J. Pepén
Tania Fernandes
Sharon DurkanCity
Ben Weber
Liz Breadon
What does abolition mean?
systems and structures need to be destroyed and invites us to create new networks and communities of freedom
What is the work that we are doing at unnamed? Why?
In unnamed we are checking in with community members (through our survey) on issues that we identified that are important and seeing which one's feel equally important to members. This will give us insight on how we want to as unnamed address this issue