On November 23, my group and I met with a man named Brian Torres. Brian is currently a climate change activist who is creating a documentary called “El Nevado.” He interviews young people and asks them about their thoughts on climate change. Brian visited our school before the interview. During the interview Brian explained that…
During this interview we met Brian Torres, a documentarian who is currently making a documentary called El Nevado. We asked a lot about what he was hoping to achieve with documentary and what the generation is thinking and how there thinking about the envirement. It was really interesting to learn about what these kids were…
On November 30 we went to the Robert Gangi’s office. Robert Gangi is the CEO of Prop (Police Reform Organizing Project). His organization exposes discriminatory and abusive practices of the NYPD.f We took the 1 train to 86th street and walked 1 block. When we go to his house he started to talk about his organization…
On Thursday, 10th of December, our group had a representative of an organization, called Amnesty International, meet with us and the 8th and 7th grade. This organization was currently hosting an event by the name, “Write For Rights.” This event included a writing activity which quickly grabbed my group’s attention. This activity involved a list of…
When we arrived at the food pantry, we signed in at the front and put on aprons, hairnets, and gloves. We began the visit by breaking down boxes. We then sorted and cleaned plastic containers that would be given to the people who visited the food pantry with fruits and vegetables in them. After we…
We interviewed Jacqueline M Cotugno, who works with jumpstart, over the phone in order to find out a little more about jumpstart. Although she reiterated many of the things we heard at the Jumpstart breakfast, she did impress upon us a few new things. She talked about what the college students learned in the program:…
Recently we volunteered at the Go Project. The Go Project is an organization that does group classes, at our school, on Sunday, teaching kids from K through 5th. Each class has a professional teacher and handful of volunteers. I chose 5th grade, and was placed accordingly in class 5B. Then we went to the auditorium…
My group recently went to speak with Robert Gangi who is the founder of PROP(Police Reform Organizing Project). He explained to us mainly about what his organization does and how we could help out if we wanted to. He explained to us that PROP tries to make people more aware of the police’s actions and…
Ruth Porat is the current CFO of Alphabet, aka Google. Ms. Porat is also a 57 year old mother of three. She grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and later moved to Palo Alto. She graduated from Stanford university. She got a master’s in science, and her MBA, and went on to become the CFO,…
We watched a film called “Racing Extinction” about how humans are exterminating many animal species and that we are doing very little to stop it from happening. It talked about many different species but it mostly focused on Manta Rays. It explained how Manta Rays are hunted in many rural towns in Indonesia. The mantas are…
On November 13, my group and I decided to volunteer for Everytown America, which is one of the more well-known gun violence prevention groups in America. Our job was to hand out fliers notifying everyone on how to call Congress and demand stricter gun laws. We all met on the corner of 40th and 6th…
On Wednesday my group and I visited Food Bank for New York City’s community kitchen. For such a small facility they do many things including running a full meal and activity plan for seniors,a free community dinner daily and running a food panty. What is so special about the food panty is that every person…
For this fieldwork, we met up with a man named Michael Wasserman who works with the Gowanus Conservancy against the pollution in Brooklyn. We took the subway to 4th avenue and walked a couple of blocks. We then proceeded to enter the Whole Foods building where we found out that we had made a mistake…
For my third fieldwork my group went to a food pantry called Xavier mission. During our time there we washed containers, cut pastries and organized food. We also met some interesting people who were volunteering with us. After we did that we took boxes and made them flat. It was very hard to do because…
The Go Project is an organization that tutors children that are behind in school. They tutor over 600 children across four sites. The started out tutoring 15 children of whom they would drive around and collect for tutoring. They have since grown to help children 1st-5th grade. We arrived in the morning to have a…
I happened to find this documentary quite unexpectedly, and quickly told my group members. I then proceeded to email my Humanities teacher, asking if we could count this as a fieldwork. At promptly 8:58 pm, EST, I tuned into the Discovery Channel, to watch the Racing Extinction documentary. I was appalled at what I saw.…
After contacting the Police Reform Orgization Project, we met up with the director of PROP, Robert Gangi, at his house. It was Augustus, Ethan, Jacob, Mr. Gangi, an intern for PROP and I. Although, it was we were discussing a very serious topic, the meeting was very casual. Mr. Gangi shared a lot of jokes throughout…
On Wednesday, December 2nd 2015, our group traveled to 116th St., in West Harlem. We volunteered with an organization called, “Food Bank for NYC.” This organization is a food pantry and a soup kitchen that provides over 40,000 hot meals a month. They also have special feeding programs for senior citizens, including the “Shop and Stock”…
We went to a rally at city hall organized by the beyond coal campaign. Although we had emailed Daniel Sherrell many times before this about a possible interview we finally talked to him in person when we met him. Daniel Sherrell is the New York organizer for the Sierra club. Graham stood in front with…
On the sixteenth, my group and I went to see a art show called Canstruction. Canstruction is an art installation when many people make art or sculptures out of actual cans. When the installation is don’t, the people working there then donate the cans to city harvest. City Harvest is an organization that deals with…
On Monday, November 23 our group got to interview someone I know very well, my mom Susie Scher. Not only is Susie my mom but she is also the Managing Director and Head of Investment Grade Capital Markets at Goldman Sachs. This basically means that she advises big companies on how to raise money in the…
On this fieldwork our group went to an organization called LSA. LSA helps families meet their immediate need for food and the longer-term issues of living in poverty. At our stay we helped distribute food and for each family we gave them the appropriate amount of food. We were able to get a tour…
WE met at city Hall with around 500 other people on the flaHall with around 500 other people. We then proceeded to march around hall for around an hour. When the finished we gather around and listens as some politicians made a Speach. Although we couldn’t hear them, it was interesting to talk with the…
On Thursday, November 19th my group went to the New School. I met Jane, Graham and Maisy at the school. A woman was talking about how climate change is affecting people in poverty the most. After that woman spoke, another woman introduced a few kids who are involved in climate change. One boy named Jefferson…
On the 18th of November, our group as well as the Police Brutality group saw Black Panthers, Rise of Vanguard. The movie was a documentary about the Black Panther party, and the African American equality movement as a whole. The movie followed the Black Panthers through their many movements, demonstrations, and beliefs. The movie showed…
On November 23, we met with Susan Scher, who is an advisor for Goldman Sachs. She explained to us about how she advised them about raising money and managing risks. While on the visit, I think my group learned a lot of things, some of them being that in the late 80s, there were almost…
Today we met with Robert Gangi of PROP (Police Reform Organizing Project). He is the head of an organization that is working to alert the public of the brutality and injustices the police force conducts and we as a nation endure. We met him at his apartment that was also his office. He had a…
On November eleventh Layne, Sophie and I watched and finished a 2012 documentary called A Place at the Table. The story focuses on three American families struggling to feed their families. The film was very good at proving that the United States have not been working that hard to try to fix this ongoing problem of hunger. The…
On Wednesday my group and I spend the day with NYCCA, New York City Coalition Against Hunger. We spent the morning with Andrea Shapiro at the Union Square Farmers Market. Before we started our outreach we spent time with Andrea learning about the different food assistance programs available in the U.S. I was surprised to…
On Monday, November 23rd, our group visited LSA, an organization with many different branches to it that helps families in poverty. One of their main programs is the advocacy and food pantry, which is where we volunteered. This program provides food to families in poverty and also helps them with other issues they may have…
On November 11, my group and I were scheduled to meet with Donna Dees, the founder of Million Mom March, a gun violence prevention organization that was founded in 2000 after the Granada Hills shooting. Dees and her team rallied for a march on Washington DC against gun violence. We met at 10:00 am at…
We met with the organization GO Project. They work with kids that are behind grade level and get them up to speed. At the meeting there were three team leaders. They talked about the progress and what they do with the kids. One thing that struck me was when one of the leaders said that…
Along with the Police Brutality group we went to see the Black Panthers movie. We saw it at the BAM theater in Brooklyn. Before going to the movie we didn’t know much about the Black Panthers. We knew them as an activist group that was known for violence. What I came to realize is that…
For my group’s second field work we went to LSA. We volunteered at their food pantry and helped at least ten families get the appropriate amount of food. Unlike most food pantries were food is distributed in bags and clients don’t have a choice of what they are getting, LSA gives people a choice and makes…
The Confrence had many young adults talk about what they were doing in their communities, and other peoples communities. One kid was campaigning for the imatter movement. Another Columbia student filled us in with his plots to sue ther government along with 21 other young Americans. 2 young someritans from upstate New York talked about…
Our group is focusing on Freedom of Speech and how it behaves in the world. Journalists, writers, and activists have their unalienable rights violated, and are restricted to speak by their own Governments. We believe that Freedom of Speech is a ubiquitous right; One that should be given to people as a human right. It…
The black panthers are member “of a militant political organization set up in the US in 1966 to fight for black rights.” We went to see the movie Black Panthers Vangaurd of a Revolution last wednesday with the Black Rights activist group. The movie we about the Black Panther group, the leaders of the group…
November 29th, my group and I went to the global climate change march. Brian Torres, a man who we previously interviewed, met us at the march and filmed us. Before the march, we met at Maisy’s house and made signs, I also brought flower crowns and a plant hat. We walked over to City Hall…
On Wednesday, November 11 my group and I went to a screening of a movie called “This Changes Everything” we met at the school at 5:45pm and walked to the Patagonia store in SoHo. We arrived at the store at about 6:00pm where people were already taking their seats. We sat down when a man…
We visited the new school on November 19, 2015. Although when we had first decided to RSVP to this event we thought that it would be an ordinary press conference on climate change and getting involved, when we arrived we were surprised to see the conference was specifically about youth engagement. This was very good…
My group and I interviewed Susie Scher who works at Goldman Sachs. Susie has worked there for 25 years now. We first took the train up and we were first introduced by a nice lady named Melissa. When we first got off of the elevator, we saw this huge area filled with rows of desks…
Today our group went to an interview at Goldman Sachs with Susie Scher, a managing director and senior partner at the company. Susie has been working at the company for about 25 years, and in our interview she described what it was like to climb the corporate ladder in a male dominated industry. She told…
On Wednesday we went to see the “Black Panthers” movie. This movie was held at BAM which is the Brooklyn Academy of Music. We traveled there by train and arrived there by 10. We got there and it was in this movie theater and the movie started out talking about Huey Newton. Huey Newton was…
On November 11th my Social Justice group met with Donna Dees. She started the Million Mom March, which brought moms across the country together to protest gun violence. The march happened on the Mall in Washington D.C. on May 14, 2000. The date was placed on May 14th so that it could be in line…
On Monday, November16th, my group and I went to the Paley Center for Media. A women named Caroline took us in to a small auditorium room. First she told us a little about the history of the Paley Center and then what the Paley Center does. Then she started talking to us about our topics…
Me and my group watched a documentary called Beauty Culture. It was a about how society thought women should act and how they should look. It examined how society impacts young girls to think that they should be pretty in a certain way and that they should have a certain body and be thin. In…
On November 16th, we interviewed the Senior Director of Strategy at Free Press, Timothy Karr. Timothy talked to us about everything from his history as a journalist in Vietnam to his work at Free Press and what it stands for. We learned a lot about how free speech and neutralized internet relate to each other,…
Interview With Timothy Karr of Free PressWhile meeting with Tim we learned about some new things and had our views of current things we knew expanded. With ease we found Tim and went to a place to sit and chat. The first thing we asked him was about his background and how he got to…
For my group’s first field work we watched a documentary on poor kids in the United States. As this being our first field work it was more for us to gain a better sense of our topic without just jumping into it. I personally felt this was important because poverty is the living condition/state someone…
My social justice recently watched “Waiting For Superman”. I did not like it. Although it did bring out the flaws in the education system. We collectively thought that this was a bad movie. All it talked about was the flaws. It never said anything about a start to a solution. It was basically a rant…
For our first fieldwork, my group watched a PBS movie called, Poor Kids. This movie follows the lives of multiple families in America who live in poverty. This film portrayed how poverty can effect so many things in your life such as your diet, home, pets, school-life, etc. I think that one thing this movie taught us…
On Monday, both women in the media groups went to the Paley center for Media for a class called “Girls, Body Image, and the Media.” In the class we watched multiple clips from different movies, television shows, and commercials. Some of the clips were from the 50s and some from today. Some of the clips…
For our first fieldwork, we watched a documentary called “Beauty Culture.” It is all about how women are portrayed in the media and what it is like to be a model or trying to be one. I thought it was very striking the levels people would go to to become someone who society wanted them…
This was a really good first fieldwork because we learned a lot about our topic and what people our doing in our community to make a difference. We learned about the Algonquin Pipeline and Spectra is trying to build an expansion that travels through many upstate communities and completely destroying the envirement. As well as about…
On Monday my group and I visited Canstruction at Brookfield Place. Canstruction is an art installation done by many people. They use cans to create sculptures and then when the installation is removed all the cans are donated to City Harvest and then distributed to people suffering form hunger and food insecurity in NYC. Because…
On Wednesday, November 18th, our group traveled to Union Square Park, where we met with NYCCAH’s (New York City Coalition Against Hunger) volunteer coordinator, Andrea Shapiro. At the park, Andrea Shapiro taught us a lot about how NYCCAH is trying to solve hunger in the U.S.. We talked about how charities, food drives and soup…
My group along with the other social justice visited the Paley Center for Media. We attended one of their classes called “Girls, Body Image, and the Media” Caroline, was the lady who helped us learn more about our topics. Once we arrived she greeted us and led us to a small auditorium. First she started…
On November 2nd, my group and I watched a documentary titled Living for 32, directed by Colin Goddard, one of the survivors of the Virgina Tech shooting. Colin Goddard works with the Brady Campaign currently, preventing gun violence around the country. He was in a French class on the fateful day of April 16, 2007.…
On Wednesday, November 11th, our group went to the SoHo Patagonia Store for a press conference and showing of the documentary film, This Changes Everything. Once the event started, a few representatives of different climate change and environmental improvement groups and projects spoke about what they were working on. We learned about the South Bronx,…
On November 16th we joined the other women’s social justice group on a visit to the Paley center for media. The center holds a collection of all types of media, from the 1920’s to present day. The collection includes radio, television, movies, the Internet, and social media. We attended a workshop while we were there…
The Canstruction is an amazing annual design competition and it is the most unique food charity in the world. The Canstruction challenges teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to build sculptures made entirely out of unopened cans of food. The large scale structures are placed on display and later donated to an organization called City…
During lunch and recess, Dakota, Jaquie, skyler and I watched a film called Missrepresentation. It was created by a woman who had been anorexic as a teen, and went on to become an actress in Hollywood. The documentary wove in a narration of her life story mixed with clips of films and news. I thought…
On Wednesday November 11 we went to the movie showing of “This Changes Everything”. We met at the school at 5:45 and then walked to the Soho Patagonia store and arrived a little before 6:00. At the showing there were about four speakers and many different organizations and campaigns were recognized. Some of these groups…
Today we sat in on a meeting at the Jump Start offices. The meeting was with a few members of the Jump Start community and three college students. The college students, who taught in Jump Start programs across the city, were talking about their work with the organization and their personal experiences. Jump Start is…
On Sunday, November 15, my group decided to do the Food Stamp Challenge. The Food Stamp challenge is a challenge where each person gets either two dollars a meal, or thirty dollars a week for all of their food. They then have to live off that much money for the week, or month, depending on…
Interview with Donna DeesLast Monday, Louie, Will and I met Donna Dees, the founder of Million Mom March. The second we started this project we immediately contacted her because of her status with the school and the world. We set up a interview with her at 10:00 PM Monday. We met in front of the…
Both of the women’s groups went to the Paley Center for Media, which is located by Rockefeller Center. We went to attend a class about how women are portrayed in the media, as well to discuss some of the things we witnessed in the clips we were shown. When we got there, we met with…
My group watched a movie called Miss Representation about how women are portrayed in the media. This movie talked about how celebrities and other women are treated by the media and everyone else. Somethings I learned from this movie is that because of the media and the internet, media violence makes violent behavior more prominent.…
On the date 11/16/15 we met Timothy Karr, the senior director of strategy at the Free Press. We met him at Civic Hall where we sat down and interviewed him. At the interview we learned what the Free Press organization did. We also learned more about Freedom of Speech in general. Here is a list…
After watching a documentary focusing on the Black Panther Party, my opinion and knowledge of them have changed for the better.
Jumpstart is a preschool tutoring program that provides resources and attention to preschool children. They focus on vocabulary, literacy, reading and writing. They give room for creativity while maintaining a structured 2-hour session. We contacted them and were able to go to a breakfast with them. We learned about how they structure their tutoring sessions,…
Halle Sage was a Teacher in Teach for America. She worked in a small public school in inner-city Baltimore for 2 years. During the meeting, she told us about her experience as a Teacher. She said that in her school the other 2 teachers decided that one would teach math, the other would teach English,…
The Alliance For Quality Education is an organization that works on making sure everyone gets equal school opportunities through legal action. They deal with things like Charter school got-to-go lists and other related issues by suing the school for the cause of expulsion. They also fight for underfunded schools by pushing policies and actions legally.…
Beyond Measure was a movie that explained and showed a New schooling technique. It criticized the current public school system that primarily teaches for the test, not for the attainment for knowledge. It described a demoralizing effect of failing on a test for something you didn’t learn. It explains that you can’t judge a person’s…
“Waiting for Superman” is a controversial movie about charter schools. The movie talks about how Charter schools work and how they began. They use many fancy statistics to make it seem like they are the answer to the failing public school system. Then we read an article called, “The Myth Of Charter Schools”. This article…
This past Wednesday my group and I went to BAM to see a screening of the movie The Black Panther. It was a movie about the hard times that African Americans faced during the late 1960s. The Black Panthers were a group that retaliated against police brutality and stood up for all races/different kinds of…
My group and I watched the Beauty Culture Documentary. Beauty Culture investigates our obsession with beauty in the society and the influence of photoshop on a women’s body. In the documentary there are interviews from many points of view. There are teenagers, fashion photographers, child pageant starts, body builders who talk about beauty from their…
On Wednesday 11/18 the Freedom of Speech group and ours went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The movie we saw was about the Black Panther revolution from the 1960s-70s. They were a group of African American people striving for equal rights, opportunities, housing, and an end to prejudices against African-American people. They were…
Our first field work was watching a movie, Living for 32. We watched it on November second. It was about Colin Goddard. He was a victim of the Virginia tech shooting. He was shot four times, as said in the movie. I learned a lot about how gun victim feel, witch made it more personal.…
The “Food stamped” movie was very educational. I really liked it, but it made me very emotional and made me understand how people who live on food stamps live. It was about a couple that tried living off food stamps for a month. They were interviewing people in the streets asking them if people can live off…
We watched a movie that explained the struggles us rising food prices and how its a struggle for people bellow the poverty line to get access to healthy food. The movie explains the food and heath problems the US face in a fight to bring heathy food to everyone. The movie steps into the lives…
Both women’s groups went to the Paley Center for Media near Rockefeller Center. The Paley Center for Media is located on 52nd and 6th avenue. Caroline, the lady who presented to us, took us to a small conference room. She started off talking about our topics and how what we were focusing on. She then…
Beyond Measure was a screening held by Mya Dunlop, whose son created MyloWrites. Beyond Measure talks about the curriculum that most schools have attached themselves to in recent years called “teaching to the test.” Teaching to the test is when everything you learn is about a test you will take. Instead of projects they spend…
My group watched a movie called Miss Representation which is about how women are portrayed in the media. Miss Representation is a documentary which shows how celebrities and people in the news and how they are treated by others, by the media. This helped my group and I learn about how others in the world…
For my Social Justice fieldwork my group watched a movie on these three families who are below the poverty level. It was fascinating seeing what it is like to not have much. You don’t realize that you have a lot until it is taken away. During the movie it was so hard to watch a scene on…
Today we saw a showing the new Blank Panther documentary with the racial profiling group. It’s premise was about the beginnings of this organization, what and who it effected, and what eventually led to its end. It started out as a small group and as it progressed it accumulated many more African Americans and became an international organization. It…
Halee Sage was a teacher with the organization Teach for America for 3 years. Teach for America is an organization that sends teachers to under-performing or otherwise not as good schools. Halee taught in Baltimore from 1991 to 1993. She told us about her problems and set backs with the school and how it affected…
AQENY is the Alliance for Quality Education New York. 3 days ago we met with their campaign coordinator, Maria Bautista. The organization that Maria works for is actually mainly focused on the legal and financial sides of public education. They sue the government for under funding their public schools, which happens more often then you’d…
Our group watched the movie Waiting for Superman directed by Davis Guggenheim. Waiting for Superman focused mainly on charter schools, and the lotteries that are required to enter them. Since charter schools are held in such high esteem, most often more people are applying for spots than spots available at the the time. So, they…
Interview Debrief with Timothy Karr Cameron Glass, Cameron Krakowiak, Nissim Hershkovits, River Magee During our interview with Timothy Karr we gained some in insight to some important topics like, a decentralized internet, net neutrality, communication conglomerates, rights to encryption, rights as a journalist, and computer and media privacy. Timothy explained how he had travled to Vietnam…
Today we met with Maria from the Alliance for Quality Education. They work on getting the government to give Public Schools the funding they need and deserve. They often sue the government for underfunding public schools. She spoke to us about “the myth of charter schools” and how yes, they seem like a great solution…
In your meeting with Halee Sage we discussed a Public School she worked at for two years in Baltimore. She was working in a very small class room trying to teach 30 or so 5th graders. She spent the first portion of her time in the class room simply teaching the kids how to navigate…
Beyond Measure was a very informative film that really made me realize how unfair it was to judge students based off one test. We are so lucky to have projects built into our curriculum but some public schools do not have the resources to do that. Children all have different learning styles and it does…
Last week our group watched the 2012 documentary A Place at the Table. This documentary follows the story of three families and individuals who suffer from hunger and food insecurity. Not only does it focus on these three specific stories but it also looks at how the country has attempted and in most cases failed…
Waiting For Superman was a very interesting movie which made us realize that Charter Schools were an option. I was surprised how hard it was to get into the Charter Schools. I think the lottery is so unfair because there could be a kid with so much potential who is unable to reach their potential because…
The two women’s groups went to The Paley Center for Media in Rockefeller center. We took the D train up to 47th street and walked to our 52nd street destination at the Paley Center. Once we got there a very nice lady named Caroline took us to a small room with a projector. We were…
My group and I took some lunch periods to watch a movie called “Miss Representation.” This movie is kind of like a documentary. In it, many women that we see on the news and weather forecasts and on regular television spoke in the movie about how women are portrayed in the media. I really learned…
A Place at the Table is a documentary that came out in 2012. This documentary tells the story of three Americans who try to maintain their dignity as they struggle to feed themselves and their families. The film contains riveting facts on how hunger is impacting the U.S. According to the film, around 50 Million…
We care about our earth. There is just too much overconsumption on our planet, which leads to pollution and other ill affects on our natural world. We want to do something about it and are learning how to take responsibility for the waste we create. Click here to read more.
When you feel unsafe, you call the police. That’s what you were told to do. But who do you call when the police make you feel unsafe? Our group is focused on the topic of Police Brutality. Too many citizens, and especially young men of color, are being targeted by the police rather than protected…
