{"id":379515,"date":"2018-10-03T17:27:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-activists-on-the-frontlines-of-the-battle-for-educational-justice-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T17:27:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:27:19","slug":"the-activists-on-the-frontlines-of-the-battle-for-educational-justice-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-activists-on-the-frontlines-of-the-battle-for-educational-justice-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Activists on the Frontlines of the Battle for Educational Justice in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story_summary\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh objects to being held accountable for his behavior in high school, we look at the criminalization of black and brown students that has led to what is known as the school-to-prison pipeline. We speak with a roundtable of community activists engaged in the fight to save schools and push for alternatives to punishment and privatization. Their voices are highlighted in a new book titled, \u201cLift Us Up, Don\u2019t Push Us Out! Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement.\u201d In Chicago, we speak with \u2028Jitu Brown, the national director of the Journey for Justice. In Washington, D.C., we speak with Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, the co-founder of Racial Justice<span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">NOW<\/span>! and Field Organizer for the Dignity in Schools Campaign. And in New York City, we speak with high school teacher and restorative justice coordinator E.M. Eisen-Markowitz and Mark Warren, co-author of \u201cLift Us Up, Don\u2019t Push Us Out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Please check back later for full transcript.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/the-activists-on-the-frontlines-of-the-battle-for-educational-justice-in-the-us\/\">The Activists on the Frontlines of the Battle for Educational Justice in the US<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\">Truthout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/the-activists-on-the-frontlines-of-the-battle-for-educational-justice-in-the-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh objects to being held accountable for his behavior in high school, we look at the criminalization of black and brown students that has led to what is known as the school-to-prison pipeline. We speak with a roundtable of community activists engaged in the fight to save schools and push [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}