Education not Incarceration Teach-ins and Statewide Day of Action!

PLEASE RESPOND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE! (see below)

The Education not Incarceration Coalition (www.may8.org) is kicking off the 2003-2004

school year with EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION TEACH INS in schools statewide, building toward a STATEWIDE DAY OF ACTION to demand funding for our schools not more prisons which will tentatively occur on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 (dates for the teach-ins and statewide day of action will be confirmed at next Monday’s Education not Incarceration meeting, 7PM at 6501 Telegraph Ave).

The Teach Ins will spotlight the immense problems facing our schools due to drastic budget cuts, while at the same time our state spends more and more money imprisoning our youth and parents.

The teach-ins will include both curriculum for teachers of all ages and presentation from community leaders and will launch Thursday, October 30th (tentatively), National Take Affirmative Action Day, with a press conference, and run up to November 12 (tentatively), the Statewide Day of Action.

On the Statewide Day of Action, teachers, students, parents and community members will bring the tools from the Teach-In to meetings with their state representatives to demand a reduction in the state’s prison population, saving the state money that can be restored to education in the coming budget cycle.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

A. Coordinate a teach-in at your school or in your classroom.

B. You or your organization would like to present at a teach-in, please briefly describe your area of expertise

C. Help develop or contribute curriculum

D. Plan or attend lobby visit or another form of action for the November 12th Day of Action.

E. Come to planning meetings. The next meeting will be next Monday, October 6th, from 7-

9PM at Neibel Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph (just north of Alcatraz in North

Oakland)

PLEASE RESPOND IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE!

E-mail to jzern1@yahoo.com your name, e-mail, phone #, mailing address, school/organization, and which way you can help.