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| Each week, TCLA offers timely resources in the form of links, news, and essays which reflect important ideas on democracy, education, and access. |
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• Check out a website devoted to improving the conditions for workers in the Silicon Valley!
http://www.siliconvalleydebug.org/ |
5/21/01
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• Did you know that every 40 seconds a teenager is injured while at work in the US?
This rate is twice that of working adults. And every year approximately 70 teens die from work-related injuries here.
Why do injuries and deaths like this happen to many of the 3-5 million teens who enter the workforce each year? Partly it’s that where youth work there are generally high injury rates: retail jobs with fast food restaurants and supermarkets, service jobs such as healthcare, education and private households, and dangerous jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, and construction.
Also, more times than not, employers do not train youth how to work safely or they allow them to do dangerous tasks such as using mechanical box crushers, meat slicers, late night work in high crime areas, or other work that is prohibited under our Child Labor Laws.
There are laws that protect working youth. For unsafe health and safety conditions there is the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) and the California Department of Labor Standards Enforcement that enforces Child Labor Laws. Local phone numbers for these agencies can be found under the State Listings section of your phone book. For sexual harassment on the job issues you can contact the State Department of Fair Employment and Housing (1-800-884-1684). Know your rights and use them.
Teachers:
May has been declared "Safe Jobs for Youth" month by Governor Gray Davis. Teachers can obtain a 2 week curriculum on this topic for $35 dollars from the UCLA-LOSH Program; give us a call to request an order form.
Youth and Parents:
For a short factsheet on teen worker rights you can contact:
The UCLA-LOSH Program
Box 951478
Los Angeles, California 90095
310/794-5964 or visit our website at: http://losh.sppsr.ucla.edu
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4/30/01
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• Tour Poverty in America
Poverty is a major factor impacting student achievement. For 32 million Americans, every day is a bitter struggle to survive with the least. They are America's poor, left behind on the road to prosperity. This powerful site was created to raise awareness about poverty and to show how impossible it is to live at the poverty line drawn by the federal government. Click below to take the two-minute tour.
http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm
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4/23/01
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• Attend the "Classroom Bill of Rights" forum this Saturday at UCLA
In response to the ideas and concerns we heard, a group of us at UCLA (in the Institute for Democracy, Education and Access at the Education School, and the Program in Public Interest Law and Policy at the Law School) are hosting a gathering of people working on issues of substandard schools in California. We see the gathering as a day of dialog among grassroots organizations and activist students and parents: a chance to learn what others are doing, and to consider whether and how people might want to stay in communication. The agenda would ultimately be decided by those attending. Click here for more information about the purpose of the conference or here to read the agenda for the day. |
4/16/01
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• Have your K-12 Los Angeles-area class fill out our Digital Divide Survey!
To receive a class set of surveys, please contact us at tcla@gseis.ucla.edu or (310) 825-1530. Teaching to Change LA will compile the results of the surveys and respond to each class on their results. Classes will be entered in a lottery to win a trip to visit UCLA on June 7th. Surveys need to be returned to TCLA by April 16th. |
4/2/01
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• Read "Talk Back" and see how one person responded to Ramon Martinez's article:
Read the reaction one person had toRamon Martinez's article and view Ramon's response to the reader found on ourTalkback page. Feel free to respond yourself, directions on how to share your thoughts are found on the bottom of that page. |
3/26/01
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• Check out pictures from last week's Rally Against SP1 and SP2!
Click here to look out some photos taken during last week's rally. |
3/19/01
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• Participate in the UCLA Student Strike Wednesday against SP-1 and SP-2!
Join in solidarity with thousands of students and community members to demand the UC Regents end UC Resegregation at their March 14th meeting. The mass march and rally will take place Wednesday, March 14th at Westwood Plaza at 11:00am. The UC Regents are anticipated to revote on SP-1 and SP-2, which eliminated affirmative action programs in admissions, hiring, and contracting in the University of California system. |
3/12/01
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• What happens when an Indian physicist places a computer hooked up to the Internet into a wall in a garbage-strewn vacant lot in South Delhi?
Read about how ghetto kids discovered uses for the computer and became computer literate without any formal assistance: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00302b.htm |
3/5/01
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• Read about LA students participating in a travel-study program to civil rights landmarks in the South
The Sojourn Civil Rights Project provides an opportunity for high school students from New York City, San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles to travel to the South and study the civil rights era in intimate settings. The program's itinerary includes Washington DC, Atlanta, Tuskegee, Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham, Jackson, Little Rock, and Memphis. By the way of a "living history" syllabus - books, documentaries, recordings and on-site visits with civil rights veterans - lessons of tolerance, nonviolence, personal courage, compassion, forgiveness, faith, hope, justice and civil responsibility are imparted during expedititions.
Learn more about this project at www.sojournproject.org. |
2/27/01
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• Attend a talk about civil rights at the UCLA Hammer Museum
On Sunday, February 25th at 3:00 pm Valerie Smith will analyze strategies of representing the triumphs and traumas associated with the Civil Rights movement in visual and literary texts of the late twentieth century. Valerie Smith is a Professor of English and African-American Studies at UCLA. The author of "Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative" (1987) and "Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings" (1998), she is currently working on a book on narratives of race in the post-Civil Rights era. The UCLA Hammer Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd in Westwood. Their phone number (310) 443-7000. |
2/19/01
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• Did you know?
According to a study by the U.S. Department of Commerce, race shapes access to and use of the Internet.
63.1% of Whites 9-17 year olds use the Internet.
34.2% of African-Americans 9-17 year olds use the Internet.
58.6% of Asian-Americans 9-17 year olds use the Internet.
31.4% of Hipanics 9-17 year olds use the Internet.
Help us continue our study of the digital divide by filling out our survey, located at www.tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/democracy/about/ddsurvey.html. |
2/12/01
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• Visit "The Little Yellow School Bus for Peace" in Los Angeles February 5th and 6th. The Educational Caravan for Peace collects school supplies needed in the autonomous Zapatista schools of Chiapas while traveling from San Francisco to Chiapas, Mexico. Additionally, the bus will collect and record students', parents', and teachers' thoughts and hopes for peace with justice. For additional information or to join The Little Yellow School Bus you can email: peace_bus@hotmail.com or call (619) 232-2841. You can also subscribe to the listserv at schoolsforchiapas@schoolsforchiapas.org and write "subscribe mexicopeace <your address>.
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2/5/01
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• Contribute a lesson plan, resources, references or workshop proposals for a civil rights curriculum guide!
PUTTING THE MOVEMENT BACK INTO CIVIL RIGHTS TEACHING
A NECA/PRRAC Curriculum Project for K-12 Classrooms
The Network of Educators on the Americas (NECA) and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) are currently co-editing an energizing curriculum guide, Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching. Our goal is to help teachers provide students with more in-depth knowledge about the history and contemporary development of civil rights and other social justice movements. This timely resource will provide K-12 teachers with interactive materials, lesson plans and resources for the classroom designed to present the Movement as it truly was: communities mobilizing for social justice, human dignity and full citizenship.
We are currently inviting submission of lesson plans, resources, references, workshop proposals, and any other materials appropriate for classrooms or professional development. A $100 honorarium for submissions included in the curriculum guide. For additional information or if you would like to be on the contact list for this project, please visit www.teachingforchange.org/CRPAnnouncement.htm or contact Sandra Paik (sandra@prrac.org / 202.387.9887) or Marta Vizueta (mvizueta@teachingforchange.org / 202.588.7248).
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1/29/01
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• A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. : An Inventory of the Major Papers and Recordings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/king/sermons/contents.htm |
1/22/01 |
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• A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. : An Inventory of the Major Papers and Recordings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/king/sermons/contents.htm |
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