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This will never get old and I will never get tired or hearing why it is important to center the voices, insight, and solutions of our youth. The power is within. What are we doing to authentically cultivate that power beyond words and tokenization? ~ Okaikor

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Doing this work and exploring our roots for us and our mothers, our grandmothers

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 I think that we all must reflect on how do these systems that we seek to abolish... where do they live within us?   Where does patriarchy, militarism, anti-blackness, homophobia, xenophobia live within me?  And in that space... I'm also helping fight the presence of those systems outside of my physical body. -Kaleb Autman

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 I think that we all must reflect on how do these systems that we seek to abolish... where do they live within us?   Where does patriarchy, militarism, anti-blackness, homophobia, xenophobia live within me?  And in that space... I'm also helping fight the presence of those systems outside of my physical body. -Kaleb Autman

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what skills are you bringing into this movement of abolition ?

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what skills are you bringing into this movement of abolition ?

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call our ancestors into the room- ask what skills we can bring into this movement?

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our task is not perfection, it's revolution -Kaleb

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our task is not perfection, it's revolution -Kaleb

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Juneteenth (Official Lyric Video) - Fyütch and Alphabet Rockers | Family Music

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educators must reflect on hw they show up with youth and examine how much autonomy we actually give young folx-we all must reflect on how/where these systems of oppression live with us? -Kaleb

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when we step into the process of leaning what we can do to engage this movement for freedom, that is the first important step.

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this work is not going to stop with you--it will keep going if/when you need to take care of yourself

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find your own personal connection to activism but also find ways to take care of yourself--create a well-rounded self care regimen because if you don't take care of yourself then you can't show up for others eithers.- Jakaela

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The link between elders and young people needs to be healed, and grown. Activism can only grow with enough kindling, so find healing in your own work.

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"connections may grow or break but you will always find your ground" -Ann

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feed and save others as i feed and save myself

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"Connecting to our ancestors and elders... finding teachers we can get guidance from, deeply rooted in our African culture, where there has always been a deep relationship between elders and young people" - Alex

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dive into the struggle with/for youth

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always connect to ancestors and elders-history is our best teachers. 

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always connect to ancestors and elders-history is our best teachers. 

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putting those that have been marginalized at the forefront and how can we stay accountable in ensuring we do this time and time again across spaces (schools, homes, orgs, etc.)

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young people have always been at the forefront of our movements, adults must be able to recognize and center the youth around them

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youth already know what they want for their future and they're just not being listened to. 

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youth already know what they want for their future and they're just not being listened to. 

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young people are often not thought about in big movement spaces today, and if they are invited in they're often not given the opportunity to lead. -Jakaela

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young people are often not thought about in big movement spaces today, and if they are invited in they're often not given the opportunity to lead. -Jakaela

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Youth leadership needs to be centered in abolitionist movements!

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Youth leadership needs to be centered in abolitionist movements!

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youth have all the tools they need-culture is our education -Alex

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youth have all the tools they need-culture is our education -Alex

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youth and families deserve real education as a way to repair the harm of generations of colonial education

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we have to learn about and lean on the legacies of youth organizing that came before us 

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we have to learn about and lean on the legacies of youth organizing that came before us 