Dear UPROSE Friends,
Every summer , UPROSE trains 40 youth organizers. We are writing to invite you to become a Madrina or Padrino (Godmother/ Godfather) to one of our youth by donating $100. With this funding each young person will get UPROSE gear (Tshirt, cap and backpack), food and beverages during a 7 week training and go on on a trip to Great Adventures at the end of the summer. The names of all the Madrinas and Padrinas will be listed on our websites Youth Justice Page. Of course a larger donation will also support Sin Freno Films (description below)
On behalf of our young people- a heartfelt Thank you!
Elizabeth
ABOUT YOUTH JUSTICE
UPROSE Youth Justice is a Brooklyn based youth group that houses five social justice campaigns. Significantly, Youth Justice organizes around issues they identify as pertinent to their lives and always attempt to produce tools and/or take actions that will be useful for further community activism and decision-making.
Organizers in Training
Youth Justice At the Table: Designed to provide intensive and holistic ongoing organizing training and support to the new and old Youth Justice members and leadership. The young people are introduced to the history of Civil Rights, the Peace movement, the Young Lords , the Brown Berets and Black Panthers, and other youth led movements. Workshops cover racism, sexism, environmental justice, heterosexism and classicism. The training provides the foundation for involvement in ongoing youth led campaigns and/or the development of new ones. While facilitating the At The Table Leadership Training Sessions, 3 times a year youth are also trained to use video as an organizing tool.
At the Table
• Creates a space for interaction and strategizing
• Presents new ways of looking at issues including environmental, economic
and social justice, Youth Justice, health, incarceration and education
• Teaches and reflects on the skills and theory of organizing, such as the
use of direct action, research, media, video and popular education as tools for youth organizers
• Identify resources, builds networks, and link current efforts
• Connects grass-roots struggle to systemic/policy change
Sin Freno Films – Become a filmmaker! As video becomes a more accessible medium, there is an increasing need for social justice, environmental justice, and other not-for-profits to create video representations of their work, their struggles, and their communities in order to reach out to a broader audience. However, these videos take a lot of expertise, time, and equipment to create and not every organization is equipped to handle this type of project.
At UPROSE, Youth video crews receive training in all aspects of filmmaking with an emphasis on the creation of educational and advocacy videos. The project coordinator identifies like-minded organizations that are seeking video crews at low cost to create videos for them from start to finish. On any given video crew, there will be a coordinator with previous experience in each aspect of the process, camera, sound, and editing crew members with previous training, but less field experience, and production assistants who have very little training and will use this as their starting off point.
