• Knowledge for change resides in those who experienced the dehumanization and violence of the • System-involved youth are still children system, as well as in those who control the systems • Open-ended, non-curriculum-based activities allow o This knowledge must be shared for play and development of autonomy • Job readiness comes via training and support Equal education is particularly important,. [...] to local employers • Equality is necessary o Organizations can offer part-time employment o In access and for varied learning styles and use of their website as sales platform • US educational system, for example, relies on • Mix of participants maintains anonymity property tax funding, exacerbating socio-economic • Key: long-term relationship building and community disparities ties • Governments. [...] therapy • Art can be a way to save oneself and others • Counteracts singular narrative focused on the worst • Important to support those doing this work, day of a person’s life wherever they sit, and to affirm the belief in it o Allows for sharing totality and beauty of a life with someone’s loved ones outside KEY EXAMPLES • Can support advocacy efforts with visuals, but • Capturing Belief (Detroi. [...] • Performing Statistics (Richmond, VA/US) Without youth, there is no future • Mural Arts (Philadelphia, PA) • • Youth Art & Self Empowerment Project (Philadelphia, • Intergenerational discourse combines energy and PA) new ideas with experience o E.g. [...] Government Segregated America by Richard • How one is portrayed affects how one is treated Rothstein • People must be able to tell their own story rather • Afro-Pessimism works than allowing others to tell it for them • Exterminate All the Brutes (Film) Systems like education, housing, banking, law • Kerner Commission report enforcement, food access can all be designed to • The 1968 Kerner Commiss.
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