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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Our group is looking at Wrongful Incarceration, Stop and Frisk, and the Justice System as a whole. The Justice System is flawed, people are [...]
Poverty Has No Face
Our social justice group took interest in poverty because of the sympathy we feel for the homeless men and women we see every day on the str [...]
Corporate Earth
We are five passionate 8th graders who are excited to make a change in the world. We are working to stop corporate pollution and irresponsi [...]
Power Of Women Ending Rape
We are a group of five 8th Grade girls, focusing on sex trafficking and all acts of sexual violence for our Social Justice Project. From goi [...]
Young Guns
We are a social justice group that is focused on helping rid the United States of gun violence. We are doing this by raising awareness and e [...]
LGBTQ: All About Pride
The LGBTQ community has suffered throughout many years so we are trying to raise awareness and learn as much about the struggles and progres [...]
Sock Out Homelessness
We are a group of four eighth graders who attend LREI: Little Red School House and Elizabeth Irwin High School. Our social justice group is [...]
Girls Just Like Us
Hi, we’re Girls Just LIke Us, an eighth grade group from LREI fighting to get respect for women in the media. Women and girls ar [...]
Unthanked Heroes
Our justice group took interest in veterans affairs when it became clear to us that veterans come home completely alienated and conflicted b [...]
An Interview with Jessica Wolff
On March 8th, our group spoke to one of the members at Campaign for Educational Equity named Jessica Wolff. The Campaign for Educational Equ [...]
Volunteering at Coalition for the Homeless Food Van
On March 7th, the Child Poverty had the amazing opportunity to go volunteer with the Coalition for the Homeless van program. Coalition for t [...]
An Interview with Bonnie Greaves
On March 6th, my group and I talked to a woman named Bonnie Greaves who is a volunteer at the Citizens’ Committee for Children. This o [...]
Volunteer Work at Room To Grow
On February 23, the Child Poverty Group had the opportunity to volunteer at an amazing organization called Room to Grow. Room to Grow is an [...]
Playing Squash At Street Squash!
On February 22nd, my group and I went to Street Squash an organization that tutors and teaches squash to children from 6th to 12th grade. My [...]
Producer Lauren Mucciolo Came to Speak With Us About Her Movie!
On February 11th, the Child Poverty group had guest speaker Lauren Mucciolo come speak with our grade. Lauren Mucciolo is the producer of an [...]
Women Moving Millions Communtity Update Call Sit-In
At 2:45 February 5th, we arrived at the main headquarters of Women Moving Millions. Women Moving Millions is a worldwide organization that w [...]
Youth Demand: Not Sometime
Youth Demand End Gun Violence. We are four eighth graders from New York who are trying to end gun violence in America. We need to speak up b [...]
Youth Demand: Now
Youth Demand End Gun Violence. We are four eighth graders from New York who are trying to end gun violence in America. We need to speak up b [...]
Youth Demand: Youth Is
Youth Demand End Gun Violence. We are four eighth graders from New York who are trying to end gun violence in America. We need to speak up b [...]
Youth Demand: End
Youth Demand End Gun Violence. We are four eighth graders from New York who are trying to end gun violence in America. We need to speak up b [...]
Interview at District Attorney’s Office
By Julia N. Last Wednesday at 11AM we visited the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office for an interview with three employees in the Cri [...]
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Housing Plus Solutions-The Drew House
By Sadie On January 24th, my social justice group visited an ATI which stands for Alternative to Incarceration. This ATI was a place where m [...]
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Click here. PETITION STATEMENT: We, today’s youth, demand a ban on assault weapons, an increase in microstamping, an end to the loopho [...]
Juvenile In Justice Art Exhibit
By Julia N. Today we went to the a gallery with Richard Ross’ exhibit called “Juvenile In Justice.” We say many graphic pi [...]
New Projects!
Yesterday, January 15th, my Social Justice Group (No Sugar Added) went to visit Wat-aah! again about upcoming projects. Right now we are goi [...]
FLOW: For Love Of Water
On, Thursday, January 10, and Friday January 11, my social Justice Group and I watched FLOW, For Love Of Water. To start, it is an amazing m [...]
Emotional Creatures Play
For our fourth fieldwork, we saw one of the last showings of the play Emotional Creature, which focuses on the issues of young women, both h [...]
Emotional Creature Performance
On January 10th, my group and the other Women’s Rights group went to a broadway performance called “Emotional Creature”. E [...]
New York City-The Safest City in America
Our teacher, Sarah sent us this article about how more police on the streets reduces crime. Read the article to find out more! http://www.n [...]
Steve Liss Interview
On Tuesday December 4 , my social justice group and I had a video conference with the chairman of American Poverty, Steve Liss. We discussed [...]
Showing the Class A Movie On Child Poverty Called “Poor Kids”
On December 21, my group and I completed our third fieldwork as we embarked on our social justice project (child poverty). We decided to giv [...]
Interview with Denise Hinds & Nicole Boisvert from Good Shepherd services – Friday, December 21st
By Lucy On Friday, December 21st our group went on our third field work. Even though we were missing one of our group members, we tried our [...]
Interview with Judge Clark Richardson and Lawyers for Children
People Met: Judge Clark Richardson and Three social workers from Lawyers For Children Date: December 19, 2012 Author: Jessica Our second fie [...]
Fieldwork #3: Interview w/ Juan De La Cruz (12/5/12)
On December 5, 2012, my group and I went to an interview with Juan Dei La Cruz. Mr. Cruz is the director of the food branch of Coalition for [...]
Interview with Patricia McCormick
On December 13th, my group and I had a 30 minute interview with the author of Sold, Cut and Never Fall Down, Patricia McCormick. Sold is boo [...]
Clifton Budd and DeMaria Law Firm Interview
On Wednesday, December 12, we went to visit the Clifton Budd and DeMaria, LLP Law Firm at 420 Lexington Ave, Suite 420. We left Little Red a [...]
Written Interview with Nick Lictata-Teacher at Rikers Island
By Sadie Q: In your opinion, what is the best way to prevent youth incarceration ? A: The best way to improve youth incarceration is to give [...]
Viewing of Ken Burns’ “Central Park Five”
By Julia N. On December 12, at around 5 o’clock in the evening, we went to Lauren’s house to watch Ken Burns’ documentary [...]
Interview with Carol Granum from STEPS
On December 12th my group and I had an Interview with Carol Granum. Carol, leads the program STEPS. STEPS is a program for teen domestic vio [...]
St. John’s Bread and Life 12/11/12
Last week, we went to St. John’s Bread and Life. On the way there, we got a little bit lost because we did not have clear directions t [...]
Interview With Colin Goddard, Virgin Tech Shooting Survivor
On December 10th 2012 my gun violence group and I Skyped a survivor of the Virginia Tech Shooting, who is working with the Brady Campaign, C [...]
Field Work #3 Blog Post-Court Case
On December 6, my group and I went to the Criminal Court in Brooklyn, to view domestic violence court dates. We sat in the jury box and obse [...]
Interview with Elizabeth Webster from The Innocence Project
On Wednesday December 5th my group conducted an interview with Elizabeth Webster. Liz works in the communications department at The Innocenc [...]
Housing Works – Charles King, December 5, 2012
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8vK2I3Y7cbjUkFielRBd1l4M0E/edit?usp=sharing This is a recording of Charles King’s talk-in with the gr [...]
Interview with Marianna Houston, founder of ITLP (International Theatre and Literacy Project)
On December 3rd my group and I interviewed Marianna Houston, founder of ITLP (International Theater and Literacy Project). She explained to [...]
Interview with Jordyn Lexton on Drive Change
By Julia N. On Monday, December 3 we (the youth incarceration group) interviewed Jordyn Lexton on her new organization called Drive Change. [...]
Interview with the Third Wave Foundation’s Andrea Flynn
On Thursday november 29th we interviewed Andrea Flynn, a chair member of the Third Wave foundation. The Third Wave Foundation was founded by [...]
Interview with Michelle Kaminsky and Farah Rodriguez
On Thursday, November 29 my group and I went to the DA’s office in Brooklyn. We interviewed multiple people and what their job is at t [...]
Go Project Tour!
On Saturday my Poverty Social Justice Group and I embarked on a field work to LREI where we would work with the Go Project. We mainly went t [...]
Volunteer Work with the Coalition for the Homeless 11/20/12
Amanda Moretti my fellow class mates mom recommended a field work for my group and I with a organization called the coalition for the homele [...]
The start of our concert project
On Monday, November 19th our SJ group went to WAT-AAH again. Our goal while we were there was to When we were there Christine Widga (Directo [...]
Long Island Wins
http://www.longislandwins.com This is an organization headquartered in Long Island, who is fighting for the rights of undocumented youth imm [...]
Interview With Michelle Kaminsky-Assistant DA in Brooklyn 11/16/12
On November 16, my social justice group and I interviewed an Assistant District Attorney who deals with sexual trafficking and abuse. Her na [...]
Serving Food to the Elderly at The Untied Jewish Council of the East Side (11/15/12)
On Thursday, 11/15/12 my group and I went to the United Jewish Council of the East Side to serve lunch to elderly who are hungry. Once we go [...]
Interview With Brian Levinson And Alex Katz Mayors Against Gun-Violence, At City Hall NYC
The war and gun-violence group, part of the Little Red School House eighth grade social justice program, recently went to City Hall in New Y [...]
Child Abuse Field Work with CAPP
On November 14, I had a social justice interview with three women who work at an organization called Prevent Child Abuse. My group asked the [...]
Child Poverty Group goes to the ITLP Fundraiser
On Monday, November 12th my group went to a fundraiser for ITLP, the International Theatre and Literacy Project. This organization works wit [...]
First Fieldwork with Wat-aah: Introduction Visit
Hi, this is Sarah. On Monday, November 12th, my social justice group and I were given the opportunity to visit the Wat-aah offices. Wat-aah [...]
Cradle to Prison Pipeline-Phone Interview with Ilana Brunner
By Sadie On Sunday November 11th, we had an interview scheduled to talk to Ilana Brunner who works in the Washington D.C. office of Congress [...]
The Gender Gap Film Screening
For our first fieldwork, we went to a movie screening called Women’s Voices: The Gender Gap, which was about women’s rights. It [...]
Youth Demand
We are four eighth graders from New York City who believe it is time for youth to take a stand against gun violence for the sake of our futu [...]
Child Poverty: Break the Cycle
Hello people who are viewing our blog! We are a group of eighth graders at LREI: Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School. Th [...]
Throwing Stones at the Glass Ceiling
8th Grade Social Justice Group Fighting For Gender Equality In The Work Space And Elsewhere. Hello! We are the Gender Equality Social Justic [...]
Immigration Nation
We are eighth graders from LREI School (Little Red Schoolhouse + Elisabeth Irwin High School) in Greenwich Village, NYC. Our grade is embark [...]
No Place for Kids: Youth Incarceration in America
Hello! We are the Youth Incarceration group. We are working raise awareness on the many issues that affect incriminated youths 18 and under. [...]
Stop The Abuse
Hello all, we are the child abuse social justice group made up of five eighth graders from LREI (Little Red Elizabeth Irwin) Jessica, Lucy, [...]
No Sugar Added
Hi! We are five eighth graders in New York City from Little Red School House and Elizabeth Irwin High School. As a part of a year-long socia [...]
The Bullying Effect
The Bullying Effect Group wants to teach you about how LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning) youth bullying may hav [...]
Love Shouldn’t Hurt – Domestic Violence Issues
Hello, we are Justine, Charlotte, and Pilar and we are eighth graders at LREI in New York City. Our class this year is doing a project calle [...]
Poverty in America
We are doing our part to help end poverty for the 43 million Americans that have to suffer below the poverty line. Our group goal is to rais [...]
Starve Out Hunger in NYC!
In NYC today 1.3 million New Yorkers have to and need to rely on food pantries and soup kitchens. In NYC 400,000 people are pained from mode [...]
Social Justice
The eighth grade social justice project “Choosing to Participate” is a cornerstone of the eighth grade humanities curriculum. Through th [...]
