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December 26, 2003
Columbia Univ. Expansion, Affirmative Action Update
On this edition of Rise Up Radio:
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- youth news;
- a discussion with community and student activists about Columbia University's planned expansion into West Harlem;
- the latest on affirmative action organizing since the June Supreme Court decisions.
December 19, 2003
Fighting Hunger and Homelessness
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- youth news;
- Safe Horizon's Streetwork Project, on their work with homeless youth;
- a discussion with social service execs about hunger, homelessness, and NYC policy;
- Prison Moratorium Project, on their upcoming campaign to close Spofford Juvenile Center.
December 12, 2003
Challenging Police Repression
On this edition of Rise Up Radio:
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- youth news;
- the voices of youth of color challenging police brutality and repression;
- "Peops," a new book portraying the lives of amazing people.
December 05, 2003
Understanding Recruitment, Theater of the Oppressed, and Bathroom Justice
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| Students from the Bushwick School for Social Justice join us in the studio |
- ROOTS, a collective using hip-hop culture to organize around military recruitment;
- Kayhan Irani, an enthusiastic practitioner of Theater of the Oppressed, which uses theater to promote social change;
- students at the Bushwick School for Social Justice, who are organizing a bathroom justice campaign to protest the condition of bathrooms in their school.
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