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Campaign for Artful Resistance

7/17/2013

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What is it you love about school that you have lost because of high stakes testing, school closings, budget cuts, curriculum losses, teacher firings, and other educational catastrophes?

Save Our Schools invites students, teachers, parents, guardians, and all supporters of public education to join a nation-wide art campaign to express the harmful effects of corporate education policies on our communities. Join The Campaign for Artful Resistance.

WHY?
It’s time to join a grassroots movement to end these devastating policies and bring back the joy of meaningful learning to our schools.

WHAT?
An opportunity for people of all ages to create and share works of art that challenge the harmful impacts of these devastating policies.

HOW?
There are four ways to participate (see full details in The Campaign For Artful Resistance Booklet). Do any or all of these!

  • Create artwork to be submitted, performed, or presented at a local Campaign for Artful Resistance event or in the SOS National Gallery of Artful Resistance. (See the Campaign For Artful Resistance Booklet for directions and release form.)
  • Organize a local event as part of The Campaign for Artful Resistance in your local or online community (See The Campaign Booklet)
  • Attend one of the many Campaign for Artful Resistance. events occurring in September 2013
  • Spread the news broadly about The Campaign for Artful Resistance.

WHO?
We are calling all artists, students, teachers, parents, other folks interested in reclaiming our schools FOR LEARNING, not practicing bubble-completion or enriching corporations to join us. If you're interested in creating artwork or hosting an event of any size, Save Our Schools will assist by providing networking opportunities and a Webinar Planning Session for local site coordinators, presentations, flyers, and other support materials to inform and engage participants.

WHEN?
Begin now! Choose a medium that you enjoy, and create something that shows how you feel about what has taken the joy away from learning. And/or begin planning a local Campaign for Artful Resistance event that you can host in September 2013. We are aiming for September/October dates for public events and are still in the idea-gathering stage. SOS also has a "gallery" on-line where videos, music, poems, visual art, etc. can be posted any time. 

WHERE?
Online, around the country, & in your community. Submit artistic creations to the SOS National Gallery of Artful Resistance and to your local Campaign for Artful Resistance site coordinator.

For folks in the D.C. area, please check out We Act Radio's The Education Town Hall event and spe. Be  Please share this message with others -- artists, educators, activists, anyone -- who may have an interest.

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The Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action is a grassroots movement dedicated to restoring educator, parent, student, and community influence over education policy and practice. We are a varied group of people with different perspectives, experiences, and views on education. But we agree that those who know the most about education, our schools, and our communities—the educators, students, families and communities in and around them—should be the ones to have the most influence over education policy and practice. Our goal is to put public school stakeholders back at the center of all education policy conversations, and to refocus national, state, and local efforts on providing the resources and support schools need in order to provide a high-quality education for each and every student.

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Come See Charles Dutton's Play "From Jail To Yale"

7/16/2013

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On Saturday, July 20, 2013 at 7:00pm, Our House presents a special theatrical fundraising event, FROM JAIL TO YALE by Charles Dutton, as part of their 20 Year Celebration of serving disadvantaged male youth. Click here to watch an interview with Charles S. Dutton

The entertaining evening features Actor, Producer, and Writer Charles S. Dutton (“Roc”) performing his critically acclaimed, autobiographical story of his journey from prison in Baltimore, Maryland to Yale University School of Drama and his theatrical, film and television success.

Charles S. Dutton is one of the few actors to earn Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the same role. He is a veteran of numerous feature films such as “Aliens 3”, “Menace II Society”, “Rudy”, “A Low Down Dirty Shame”, and many more. He starred in and executive produced the Fox comedy/drama “Roc”, produced by HBO.

Charles S. Dutton is donating all proceeds from the evening to benefit Our House and their goal of raising much-needed funds to support their work servicing abused, abandoned, homeless and orphaned male youth, ages 16-20. 

WHAT:
“FROM JAIL TO YALE – Serving Time On Stage” - Starring Charles S. Dutton

WHEN: 
Saturday, July 20, 2013 
Door Open at 6:30pm Performance: 7:00pm

WHERE: 
Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center
7995 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, 20910

SUGGESTED MINIMUM DONATIONS:
  • General Admission tickets are $45.00 for the performance only. Seats are first come-first served. 
  • VIP tickets are $75.00 and include preferred seating and the post-show “Meet The Artist” reception and the opportunity to meet and mingle with Charles S. Dutton. VIP TICKETS MUST BE RESERVED OR PURCHASED IN ADVANCE.
  • All tickets are available for purchase at: www.our-house.org 
  • A limited number of General Admission tickets will be available at the door.

Anyone unable to attend the fundraiser can support the play by making a donation on the Our House website. 

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ABOUT OUR HOUSE
Our House is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing abused, homeless, orphaned, and abandoned male youth from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., with a chance at success in life. Celebrating 20 years of rehabilitating at-risk young men, the organization works to ensure its trainees become productive, tax-paying members of their communities. 

Our House stands out from the myriad programs for at-risk youth because of the holistic and structured approach developed at its inception in 1993. Today, the program is rooted in vocational and academic education including carpentry, organic farming, beekeeping, pottery, woodcrafts, animal husbandry, GED preparedness, computer skills and more—trainees learn life skills that build confidence and self-esteem.

Community service also plays an important role in the Our House experience. One of the core values imparted to every trainee is the value of giving back, and, to date, Our House has contributed more than 19,000 service hours back to the community. They have received countless County, State and Federal Awards for their program including the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service. To learn more, follow this link: www.our-house.org

Our House PSA - Charles Dutton Full Length from Hi.Go. on Vimeo.

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On the Morning After Not Guilty

7/14/2013

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I'm trying to respond ...
But a gunshot and shouts of no justice, no peace ring in my ears.

I'm trying to respond to what has happened to Trayvon Martin ... 
to his family ... 
to the mothers of boys born with brown skin ... 
to each of us across this nation. 
But a gunshot and shouts of no justice, no peace ring in my ears.

I'm trying to respond to the fact that when I see young boys with brown skin on the street, on the metro, in the grocery store and in the classroom, I silently pray this prayer:
Bless you, stay safe, keep your cool, and may you live long enough to see your grandchildren and a time when strangers don't silently pray this prayer.
But a gunshot and shouts of no justice, no peace ring in my ears.

I'm trying to respond without remembering the cautionary words my mother and father shared with my brother when they taught him that his actions, words, glance and gaze could get him killed ... not just for their intent, but for his brown skin.
But a gunshot and shouts of no justice, no peace ring in my ears.

I'm trying to respond without tears of pain, sorrow and disappointment to this egregious crime and miscarriage of justice. 
But a gunshot and shouts of no justice, no peace ring in my ears.

I'm trying to respond in a way that moves this nation forward. 
But a gunshot and shouts of no justice, no peace ring in my ears.

I'm trying to respond ...
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