This Week in SBU, as told by Huey P

[Shaun Lin]

Peace peace folks-

Congratulations on a powerful, inspiring, uplifting week folks! What we've all accomplished is already shifting the landscape of how folks talk about education reform in the future. Full coverage of news coverage from the civil disobedience, to the first hearing to the walkout are all at the SBU facebook page.

Monday (Feb. 7)

UYC OC meeting at Annenberg from 5-7 pm. We'll leave the SBU office at 3:45. (Adolfo, Aurelis, Jay, Kimberly, Taffy, Troy, Yoshi)

Gompers Planning meeting from 6-7:30 pm. (G-House)

Tuesday (Feb. 8)

Meeting with Jesse Mojica (from Bronx BP's office) at SBU from 4-5 pm. (will follow up)

Adama 1-on-1 with Shaun, 5-6 pm.

NWB Leadership Council meeting at the Concourse House from 6-7:30 pm. (Miguel, Samantha?)

Wednesday (Feb. 9)

Gompers Hearing Prep meeting at either Concourse House or SBU office, from 2-4 pm. (G-House)

Yoshi 1-on-1 with Shaun, 3-4 pm.

Meeting with Santiago Tavaras (not confirmed yet) at SBU from 4-5 pm.

Elliot 1-on-1 with Shaun, 5-6 pm.

Parents meeting at SBU from 6:30-8 pm. (please confirm with Maria if your folks are coming)

Thursday (Feb. 10)

SBU Retreat Planning meeting from 5-7 pm. (Retreat planning committee, come with agendas prepared)

Friday (Feb. 11)

Miguel 1-on-1 with Shaun, 2-3 pm.

LI youth meeting with SBU, 3-4 pm.

SBU General Body meeting from 5-7 pm. (Everyone)

Saturday (Feb. 12)

SJL GLO at 32 BJ in Manhattan, from 10 am - 6 pm. (Adama, Adolfo, Angie, Miguel, Rafael, Samantha)

SBU movie night!

* The Gompers hearing is coming up on February 17th.

* SBU retreat is February 18th - 22nd.

This week's links:

In education:

In addition to all the news you all were MAKING this week (again, all compiled at SBU fb page)...

"This Ain't Egypt Mr Mayor," Bloomberg compared to Mubarak for his response to our actions. HELL YES!! (NY Daily News)

'Race to the Top' torn apart in the Washington Post. (Washington Post, obviously)

Pedro Noguera: "Obama has a long way to go on education reform." (CNN)

In people's revolutions all over the world:

Why are they protesting in Egypt? (The Root)

Youth, Joblessness and Revolution in Egypt - and America. Drawing connections to the youth movement here. (ColorLines)

How To Protest Intelligently - Training manual from Cairo (Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle blog)

Yemen cancels university tuition as protests mount (Student Activism blog)

The World on Fire: Tunisia, Egypt and the Power of Protest (Racialicious)

In hip hop (& health):

DJ Kool Herc (founding father of hip hop and BX community member from Sedgwick) is very sick and cannot afford the medical attention that he needs. It's sad times for the hip hop community but also reveals alot of the inherent flaws in our health care system. Good posts by Kevin Powell and Jeff Chang, including links for ways to support Kool Herc.

J Dilla: the Mozart of Hip Hop (UK Guardian). 5 years ago, James "J Dilla" Yancey died after a long fight with lupus. Dilla was the architect of one of the most powerful and influential movements in hip hop history, blessing legends like A Tribe Called Quest, Common, Mos Def, The Roots, Erykah Badu, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Janet Jackson, MF DOOM and many others with his musical backdrops. 

patches out!

--
Shaun Lin
Youth Organizer
Sistas and Brothas United

103 East 196th Street
Bronx, NY 10468
office: (718) 584-0515 Ext. 244
cell: (310) 869-2643
sh...@northwestbronx.org
www.sistasandbrothasunited.org

Education becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. - Paolo Freire