Thank you to everyone who attended our official launch on Saturday 💛 it was great to have so many of you there 🥰
Here is a thread on how you can join CARE - we welcome anyone who believes & upholds that the best education is an anti-racist education! So here's info on joining:
1 - provide us with a brief intro to you: who you are, what you do, any experience you have in anti-racist education and/or organising (experiences & observations that relate & have driven your interest count).
2 - let us know if there is any specific reason you want to join CARE: what you're hoping to get out of being part of the community, what you think you can bring to it, & what you can offer in terms of skills and/or knowledge
3 - answer the following questions on anti-racist education: 1. Why do we need anti-racist education? 2. What does anti-racist education look like? 3. How do we become anti-racist educators for life?
You can answer these questions in whichever format feels most comfortable & accessible to you: a video, audio clip, poem, writing, a song, a painting etc. We welcome creativity if it is important to you & will help you answer the above questions 📢🎨🖌️🎤🎶🎭🎥📝
We are creating a community & space that is much needed & sacred to us. An active anti-racist, anti-oppression, liberation group requires active membership. We ask that you: show up, be present & offer your time, skills & knowledge to CARE - being an active member is essential
As a member, you will get to:
- Meet lots of incredible people😍
- Share skills, knowledge, advice & good practice on making anti-racist education a reality🤩
- Be part of decision-making, actions & support with activities that will bring us closer to our priorities & demands🥰
- be part of a confidential & inspirational space where we centre care, love & respect in our work & how we work together❤️
We communicate through online platforms & have regular whole group & working groups meetings. We try what works best for everyone & welcome suggestions!
If you are up for becoming part of our community, please email your answers to our questions to: caretoliberate@gmail.com or you can send us a direct message on here or through our Instagram account. We look forward to hearing from you! 💛 #Care2Liberate#JoinUs#antiracisted
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Secure schools have been snuck into the policing bill... Yet another sinister way in which the government would rather pump money into locking people up, in this case children, instead of dealing with systemic social issues that cause trauma in the first place #KilltheBill
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The policing bill & “secure schools”: what's going on?
What are “secure schools”?
“Secure schools” are part of the government’s planned reform of youth justice - essentially, a rebranded version of Young Offenders’ Institutions (YOIs)
The gov claims that “secure schools” will “take a child-focused & trauma-informed approach to youth custody”[1] as if incarcerating children could ever be child-focused or trauma informed! They also claim they will be building “schools with security, not prisons with education”