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'CSI' bids farewell after 15 seasons with emotional season finale
'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' recap: Grissom and the gang say goodbye.
In the end, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" died as it lived: fun, flabby, and altogether too invested in the undying love of two deeply sexless characters. After 15 seasons, 337 episodes, countless autopsies, several cast changes, three spin-offs and some of the most inventive murder investigations in TV history, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is ready to close the morgue drawer for good.
The two-hour finale of the CBS mainstay bent over backward to reunite many fan favorites, most notably original cast members Marg Helgenberger and William Petersen. The Center gave the "CSI" family a chance to talk about what the show meant to them and the audience. "We have a great message," creator and producer Anthony Zuicker said. "Which is – on the worst day of people's lives, you can come in and solve a crime and bring peace of mind to the survivor and put the bad guy behind bars." Statistics show that during it's 15-year run, "CSI" had an estimated world audience of nearly 74 million viewers, a fact that most of those in front and behind the camera credit to chemistry. "We had such a tight group, tight camaraderie, and you know a big family because we spent many many years together and many hours together," Marg Helgenberger said. As the now-iconic series airs its final two-hour installment on Sunday, several longtime cast members – including original star William Petersen, who returns as Gil Grissom for the finale – gathered recently at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills to look back on the fond memories, famous fans–turned–guest stars (Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift among them) and the creepy forensic details they'll never forget.
Sure, and there were plenty: Original series stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger returned, relegating final-phase stars Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue to a few scenes (for him) and a throwaway reference to an offscreen death (for her). Petersen, 62, remembers recognizing the remarkable spark happening behind the scenes with the cast and creators even as the show caught fire out of the gate with audiences, pushing boundaries of graphic content and reinventing the crime procedural as it become one of the fourth-longest-running and one-time highest rated series on television. "The first year of the show was pretty remarkable in terms of the creative energy that was displayed on a daily basis from everybody that worked on it," Petersen tells PEOPLE. "It was very group-created. Multiple witnesses identified the shooter who tried to kill a man on a Brooklyn street. "We caught the guy dead to rights, and the jury said, 'Why didn't you guys do DNA?' " recalled the former assistant district attorney who handled the case.
I never thought the audience would also be everyone who's NEVER done a crossword puzzle!" Though set in Las Vegas, CSI occupies the world of forensic investigators who solve criminal cases not in the streets or an interrogation room, but in the lab, where the truth reveals itself in the evidence they probe. That testing for DNA is rare, time-consuming and expensive, particularly in such a straightforward investigation, didn't register with those sitting in judgement. Sure, there was always plenty of wacky, exploitative murder mysteries to be solved, but once Grissom departed for the wilds of the world, the show lost its center and slowly became just another case-of-the-week procedural. And there was that mysterious redheaded young investigator, proudly declaring that this was her first day on the job. "Where did that girl come from anyway?" asked Grissom.
It was exhausting, but it was special." Beyond being entranced by the newly sophisticated level of high-tech forensic investigation and the clever murder scenarios the show employed, fans also fell for the character's personal dramas – most specifically Grissom's slow-simmering romance with Jorja Fox's fellow investigator Sara Sidle. "All we wanted to do was sort of have a real relationship that exists sometimes in the workplace where there's a little thing that happens," says Petersen. "And that becomes a little bit more of a thing. It would spawn two long-running spin-offs, set in Miami and New York, and recently gave birth to a third, "CSI: Cyber," which now will survive it as the 15-season run of the original CSI comes to an end Sunday at 21:00 EDT. Though Petersen's return for the series finale gave the show a badly needed jolt of original "CSI" magic, it also meant that the love story of Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle returned to center stage.
The two-hour farewell brings back bygone stars including Marg Helgenberger (who played exotic-dancer-turned-investigator Catherine Willows until departing three seasons ago) and Petersen (who headlined for eight-plus seasons as lab boss Gil Grissom). It felt really good to get a pat on the back from my dad … I have emotionally come to grips with the fact that TV shows have to go up and TV shows have to go down at some point. She initially was Grissom's subordinate but eventually became friend, lover, wife, estranged wife, ex-wife — in the most uninteresting ways possible. Of course, the big weird dark joke in the CSI pilot was that Gribbs didn't last very long: Shot to pieces by the end of episode 1, dead halfway through episode 2.
Fox and Petersen always existed within the show's universe without an ounce of chemistry, so when the series opted to make the two its "one true pairing," it went all in on the show's least interesting relationship. Sadly, there was plenty of Grissom-and-Sidle relationship drama in the finale, as we quickly learn that the two have divorced and it becomes clear, when Grissom returns to Las Vegas to help investigate a string of suicide bombings, that they are still in love with each other. This all cemented a period of what Petersen calls "postmodern vagueness," with people doubting themselves and their world and wondering, "What does it mean?
But the trail quickly leads to Lady Heather, which brings Grissom back from his pro bono adventures as, like, a maritime anarchist. (One of Grissom's first lines in the movie: "Looks like somebody jumped a shark!") The finale turned on a few very out-there flourishes, some pseudo-scientific (South American mind-control flower!) and some pseudo-psychographic (lots of talk about the metaphorical implications of "dominance" and "submissive"). Where is the truth?" "What our show did was give you the truth," he declares. "You can be confused about many things, but this little piece of lint that we found on the floor, you can count on that.
And yet, for all the ham-handed story moments — including Ted Danson toiling in the background of the episode, as though in his own universe, before literally packing his bags and shuffling over to join the cast of "CSI: Cyber" — the finale still managed to capture some of that stupid fun of the "CSI" glory days. And that gave me the inspiration to go below the tape with a forensic police drama and take a forensic point of view." Problem is, "CSI" made things too cool. It included any number of dry Grissom jokes, including him referencing "jumping the shark" while holding bloody, detached shark fins, inferring that a murderer was "forever alone," as well as murmuring, "who are you" while searching for the killer. Zuiker remembers how, along with launching the early careers of guest actors like Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Renner, Rumer Willis and Kellan Lutz, several celebrity fans wrangled appearances on the show, including emerging pop star Bieber, who played a serial bomber in two 2011 episodes. "He was huge back then," recalls Zuiker. "We brought in a bunch of new viewers for us during that time.
It often featured technology that was on the cutting edge of forensic science, innovations unavailable to the average police department — and even untested. As Grissom told his colleagues on an early episode: forget personalities, ambitions and assumptions. "Concentrate on what cannot lie: the evidence," he said. We don't really get starstruck in the business, but it's just really fun to kind of have somebody that huge on the globe to come do the show." The teen idol also managed to terrorize the CSI team with a non-stop series of behind-the-scenes pranks, says Zuiker. "He locked our line producer in the closet.
No, but really, at a certain point in the second hour, "Immortality" went full soap, with Heather and Sara interrogating each other vis-à-vis Grissom: This was helplessly weird in the context of what CSI used to be. The defense would always ask why law enforcement hadn't looked for fingerprints on the plastic bags containing drugs, but "it never worked back then. Like every show in the franchise, it was set in a world where steadily more attractive philosopher-kings use futuristic technology and apparently bottomless reserves of funding to capture maniacs.
They were like, 'You're crazy, no one's going to do that on a drug case.' The only time fingerprinting occurred was on burglary and in homicide cases, and jurors were fine with it." Now, Steiner said, half a prosecutor's speech to prospective jurors explains how they "really don't have 'CSI'-type evidence, and 'this isn't 'CSI,' " he said. But perhaps the most egregious misstep the finale makes is in its conclusion when, after finally taking over as CSI director, Sidle leaves the career she's built to wander around the oceans with Grissom.
On drug cases in particular, juries sometimes reject logic in favor of some kind of technological evidence, says New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Bridget Brennan. Some cases simply don't require expensive forensic science or high- tech TV wizardry, where show after show has a security camera on every block ready to catch footage of a crime, or a super-convenient database full of handy information, or lab results that are back in the blink of an eye, Brennan said. "Jurors should want certainty, I think that's a good thing. It breaks Sara's back and sends her on her way, and the implication is clear: If her relationship only works by following Grissom to the ends of the Earth, then her true calling is following Grissom to the ends of the Earth. We don't have a database with everyone in the city in it and the car they drive and their fingerprints," she said. "And if we did, many civil libertarians would object to that." Investigators spotted a drug deal between a man and a woman go down in a Bedford-Stuyvesant car, but when they tried to slap the cuffs on the driver, all hell broke loose, said Kati Cornell, a spokeswoman for Brennan's office. The driver had been arrested in a different drug case just six days earlier, and had past convictions for drug and weapons possession, but jurors cleared him of the top charge of third degree drug possession with intent to sell in the June 2012 case — because the investigators who tangled with the unruly man couldn't testify they'd seen the drugs fall out of his pockets.
SHE QUIT ME… BECAUSE OF YOU!!!" This led Grissom to give a good long speech about the 52-Hertz Whale, a lovelorn semi-mythic mega-creature who sings a love song at a frequency far too low for a lady whale to ever hear him. And Sara got to take over as director of the CSI program. "Vegas is lucky to have you," said Grissom. "The oceans are lucky to have you," said Sara. The show is limited only by imagination, not reality, so there are "all kinds of techniques that haven't been validated, and some that haven't been invented yet," he said. The short answer is no. 'CSI' being my first TV script the last thing on my mind was 'Is this a format that can last for 16 years.' I was new to television and new to the industry.
Even those accused of crimes don't always realize TV science doesn't measure up to real life, said criminal defense lawyer Melanie Marmer, a former prosecutor. "The clients ask you, 'Why can't they check my fingerprints and see that I was never there?' . . . They just don't do that in real life," she said. "Or, 'Didn't they fingerprint the gun?' You usually can't get fingerprints from the gun. Maybe a thumbprint, but it really depends on the type of gun and the type of grip." "It's become so boilerplate that I could mouth the words," he quipped. "They'll talk about 'blue lights,' about how no one is coming in and putting a blue light over a bed sheet and finding semen, and then they joke, 'You don't want to put a blue light over a bed sheet in a motel anyway.' " In cases that do use forensic evidence, meanwhile, mistakes can creep in, says Erin Murphy, a professor at NYU and author of the new book, "Inside the Cell: The Dark Side of Forensic Science." "Basically, if you watch these shows, they make it seem like the analyst just rolls onto the scene (usually in a skimpy T-shirt), swabs a couple objects, and then gets unimpeachable evidence of the suspect's guilt," she says. "But in reality, analysts must painstakingly take samples from a wide array of places and things, usually without knowing whether those efforts will pay off, and then have each tested to see whether there is any usable evidence.
The testing process itself also involves a lot more subjectivity and precision than allowed in a fast-paced Hollywood drama." "More science isn't a bad thing if it helps ensure that only those whose guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt be convicted," said defense attorney Mark Bederow. "The truth of the matter is, technology has advanced . . . someone's life and liberty is at stake," said Steiner. "I've won gun-possession cases where the prosecutor has argued that they cannot lift fingerprints off [a gun]. And hopefully, we've done a good enough job that they will feel that we have said thank you." "I would have done it anyway because I wouldn't have missed it,' says Fox. "[But] it really, truly, is, I think, a love letter to our fans.
I've had jurors approach me after and say that's why they didn't convict my client, because of a lack of evidence." During trial, prosecutors keyed in on a bloody fingerprint from Cortez, found on a wall in Woods' apartment. Right after the announcement (of the finale movie) at the upfronts we threw ourselves into a room at Bruckheimer's office and we broke this thing in a couple of weeks. I wrote this (spec movie) called 'The Runner.' A buddy of mine, Dustin Abraham, when he first got to L.A. in '97, he gave it to an agent at William Morris.
I called them and I'm like 'I'm at the bar.' It was like Abbott and Costello — the Vegas guy goes to Barney's Beanery and it's actually Barney Greengrass at Barneys New York. When I get there Scott has my script and says 'This is really good, do you have another one?' I said, 'This is what I got.' They signed me right there. I went into (Littman's) office with lime-green index cards and talked to him about 'CSI.' He told me we had to get into this narrow window of pitching season. He called up Nina (Tassler, then head of drama at CBS) and told her 'I don't know if you'll buy it but this will be the most entertaining 20 minutes of your life.' By the grace of god Nina Tassler in October hears this pitch. Jonathan told me 'Don't run around like you usually do because her office is small.' And Jonathan told me 'If you don't sell it today it's dead.' So that was my motivation. (Tassler) told me 'We're going younger right now with a show we just bought called 'Survivor.' If you write me something great I will fight to get it on the air.' I wrote the script in three days and the rest is history.
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Big investors are looking to invest in Brazil. In fact, Brazil could be one of the best places to invest in 2015. Several factors contribute to Brazil as an emerging top country for investment. The World Cup was held in Brazil in 2014 and Rio de Janeiro will host the Olympic games in 2016. Forbes world's billionaire list includes 54 Brazilians. Sao Paulo has one of the best subway systems in the world, affording Brazilians reliable mass public transportation, allowing easy access to jobs and earnings.
Worldwide, Brazil is the 7th largest economy and is the largest in Latin America. According to the World Bank, Brazilians benefited from a solid decade of economic progress from 2003 through 2013, which resulted in 26 million Brazilians being lifted from poverty. Unemployment in Brazil is low and real wage growth has put the power of dollar earnings in the hands of Brazilians.
Brazil boasts abundant natural resources, producing steel, cement, and petroleum. Brazil also produces agricultural products and has significant diversified manufacturing industries (from automobiles to computers).
China recently announced that it is investing $50 billion in Brazilian infrastructure. Improvements include transportation and energy sectors. The infrastructure improvements also will help the 2016 Olympic Games. A railway is planned from Brazil to Peru to help bring Brazilian exports more quickly to China. There is high Chinese demand for Brazilian exports. Infrastructure projects boost Brazil's economy, making it even more attractive to investors. An international company, Conductix Wampfler is completing a project to expand the monorail system for Sao Paulo. The monorail will serve a crucial need. Driving the 20 miles from the airport to downtown in Sao Paulo can currently take up to five hours. The monorail will help reduce congestion for Brazilians and visitors, whose number is expected to swell during the 2016 Olympic Games.
Of course, all of those visitors will boost the economy with their spending and travel. All of this has led investors to turn their eyes toward Brazil. That's where BRL Trust comes in to the equation. BRL Trust was founded in 2005 and began by providing private loans. But after only one year, BRL Trust experienced rapid growth and increasing demand. BRL Trust is presently the largest manager of investment funds in Brazil. BRL Trust offers fiduciary services, funds administration, control and custody of funds, asset management and asset underwriting.
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As already pointed out in our other article What can be synced in Office 365 , in today's world sharing is literally everything.
We have also learned how to use Office 365 to share personal calendars as well as create a common shared calendar (via shared mailbox ). What about contacts then?
It is possible to share contacts in Office 365, however available options are limited as compared to calendar sharing.
A major downside is that contacts folder sharing is not possible in OWA. To share your personal contacts you have to use MS Outlook. The process is pretty straightforward:
All selected in the invitation recipients receive a new message with the Open this Contacts Folder button on top. Once they click it – new contacts folder appears in Shared Contacts section of the People pane. The folder is named after the user who shared it.
Unfortunately, you can't open such invitation on OWA – opening shared contacts folder is not supported.
Sharing your personal contacts folder is not the only available method – you can also use a shared mailbox functionality. The process of creating the shared mailbox in Office 365 is identical to creating a group calendar.
Make sure you have administrative privileges, as they are required to do this:
You have just created a shared mailbox. A good thing is that for users specified as having full access to it, Outlook automatically displays shared folders of this mailbox. If the user opens the People pane in Outlook, there should be a contacts folder visible with the greyish name of the shared mailbox next to it.
Again, the problem arises if you want to use OWA. It simply does not support opening contacts folder from the shared mailbox. Outlook is the only option.
Sadly contacts are also more limited than calendar folders in this scenario. Sharing externally is available only when two organizations are federated.
Otherwise, it is only possible to work around this limitation using 3rd party tools. For instance, CodeTwo Public Folders lets you bridge separate Office 365 organizations by creating a virtual network of Microsft Outlook instances across multiple sites or domains (the only requirement is Internet access). With the program installed all users are able to share personal Outlook contacts with each other or access contacts in public folders .
It is somewhat surprising that calendar sharing in Office 365 is treated better than contacts sharing. You can open a shared calendar in a web browser, use OWA to access or share it. You can even open a shared mailbox's calendar in OWA. Contact folders lack all of these features.
In the mobile age, BYOD world, and cloud era sharing is not just a buzz-word. It is a must. Contacts sharing is almost as important as email communication and as pointed out above, not so well implemented in Office 365. Let's hope that this will change soon.
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As well, some of the statements made in the above-quoted call for a boycott of Progressive Insurance were inaccurate and misleading:
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Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
"Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance"
Jean-Paul Sartre's Programming in ANSI C.
Every line of code written comes at a price: maintenance. To avoid paying for a lot of code, we build reusable software. The problem with code re-use is that it gets in the way of changing your mind later on.
The more consumers of an API you have, the more code you must rewrite to introduce changes. Similarly, the more you rely on an third-party api, the more you suffer when it changes. Managing how the code fits together, or which parts depend on others, is a significant problem in large scale systems, and it gets harder as your project grows older.
My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent" EWD 1036
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lines of code as
lines spent, then when we delete lines of code, we are lowering the cost of maintenance. Instead of building re-usable software, we should try to build disposable software.
I don't need to tell you that deleting code is more fun than writing it.
To write code that's easy to delete: repeat yourself to avoid creating dependencies, but don't repeat yourself to manage them. Layer your code too: build simple-to-use APIs out of simpler-to-implement but clumsy-to-use parts. Split your code: isolate the hard-to-write and the likely-to-change parts from the rest of the code, and each other. Don't hard code every choice, and maybe allow changing a few at runtime. Don't try to do all of these things at the same time, and maybe don't write so much code in the first place.
Step 0: Don't write code
The number of lines of code doesn't tell us much on its own, but the magnitude does 50, 500 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, etc. A million line monolith is going to be more annoying than a ten thousand line one and significantly more time, money, and effort to replace.
Although the more code you have the harder it is to get rid of, saving one line of code saves absolutely nothing on its own.
Even so, the easiest code to delete is the code you avoided writing in the first place.
Step 1: Copy-paste code
Building reusable code is something that's easier to do in hindsight with a couple of examples of use in the code base, than foresight of ones you might want later. On the plus side, you're probably re-using a lot of code already by just using the file-system, why worry that much? A little redundancy is healthy.
It's good to copy-paste code a couple of times, rather than making a library function, just to get a handle on how it will be used. Once you make something a shared API, you make it harder to change.
The code that calls your function will rely on both the intentional and the unintentional behaviours of the implementation behind it. The programmers using your function will not rely on what you document, but what they observe.
It's simpler to delete the code inside a function than it is to delete a function.
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November 10, 2016 15:00 ET
ESTEVAN, SASKATCHEWAN--(Marketwired - Nov. 10, 2016) - Having access to clean, reliable drinking water is critical to the health and prosperity of Canadian communities and for attracting economic opportunities for the middle class and those trying to join it. By ensuring that water and wastewater systems are modern, efficient and meet the capacity needs of our communities, we are safeguarding the well-being of residents, protecting our waterways and preserving our ecosystems.
In Saskatchewan, new federal and provincial funding will be going toward a project in the City of Estevan. The City will be constructing a residuals management facility to treat the wastewater generated by its water treatment plant using an effective and low-energy treatment process. This will help to protect the local environment, including the Souris River watershed. The project also includes the construction of a new water intake and pipeline to access the Rafferty Reservoir. This will help the City provide high-quality drinking water to local residents and businesses in an area of the province that has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to increased activity in the oil sector.
The Government of Canada and the Province of Saskatchewan are each contributing up to $3,133,333 for this project. The City of Estevan will be responsible for all remaining costs of the project, which has a total eligible cost of $9,400,000.
"The Government of Canada is committed to investing in modern infrastructure that meets the needs of our communities, supports the middle class, and ensures that Canada will remain the best place in the world to live, work and raise a family. This important investment in Estevan will protect the local environment and provide access to high quality drinking water for this community's residents, both now and into the future."
The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, On behalf of the Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
"A significant investment in water projects like the one for the City of Estevan makes life better for our citizens and helps keep Saskatchewan strong. By working together, the federal, provincial and municipal governments are ensuring that this important water and wastewater project meets the needs of residents both now and in the future."
Ms. Lori Carr, MLA for Estevan, On behalf of Minister Donna Harpauer, Ministry of Government Relations
"This initiative will help us environmentally with our residual management from the water treatment plant, along with giving us a cleaner more reliable water source as well as a secondary source of water from Rafferty Dam."
His Worship Roy Ludwig, Mayor of Estevan
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Welcome to our 9th Annual National Week of Action Against Schools Pushout! Our theme this year is Counselors, not Cops! DSC members and allies will hold local events across the country, and participate in our two-day National Week of Action Event in Chicago this coming October.
More Details about our National Event in Chicago Coming soon!
In the meantime, watch our 2017 Video and Share our National Week of Action Demands
We call on districts, states, and the federal government to adopt Education as a Human Right and implement the following demands:
- Shift funding from school police to counselors, peace builders and positive discipline.
- Fund and use transformative and restorative justice, mediation and positive interventions in schools.
- Stop the arrest, school removal and pushout of Black students and other students of color, LGBTQ youth, students that are homeless, and students with disabilities.
- Make sure states and districts focus on school climate under the new federal law – the Every Student Succeeds Act.
- End paddling and other forms of physical punishment in all schools.
- Invest in public education and divest from privatization and publicly funded, privately run charter schools.
Get Involved and Follow Us on Social Media!
- Learn how to become a member of DSC today!
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- Follow Us on Twitter! Join the Conversation: #DSCWoA2018 #EndSchoolPushout #CounselorsNotCops
- You can download our 2017 Materials:
- Update your local WoA events here!
List of 2017 local Week of Action events!
California Colorado District of Columbia Florida Georgia Illinois Louisiana
Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi New Jersey New Mexico New York
North Carolina Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Texas Virginia
Los Angeles
Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE)
Friday, October 27 – Shadow Report Release
CADRE will be hosting their shadow report release, with Black and Latino parents reflecting on the 10-year anniversary of the implementation of School-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports in LA public schools. The event will take place at11633 S. Western Avenue, starting at 10:30am. For more information, visit this link.
Mon, October 23 to Fri, October 27 – Classroom Observations
During school hours, CADRE parents will visit various South Los Angeles schools to observe school climate discipline practices in classrooms. For more info contact: Edgar Ibarra [email protected]
Youth Justice Coalition
Date & Location TBD
Action at school board. For more info contact: Lupita Carballo [email protected]
Black Organizing Project
Sat, October 28 – Community Town Hall
11:00Am – 2:00Pm
Alena Museum in West Oakland
BOP will be hosting a community town hall where we will be inviting the larger community, our allies and press to convene– so that we can share data from our research regarding suspensions, arrests, and expulsions w/in OUSD as well as what've we learned from the community by conducting street outreach, listening sessions, and surveys. The hope is to raise awareness and prompt discourse about crafting solutions. For more info contact: Jasmine Williams[email protected] 415.688.1616. Follow BOP on social media for updates and info Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlackOrgProject Twitter: @blackorgproject
IG: @blackorganizingproject
RYSE Youth Center
Mon, October 23
Youth will mobilize to the WCCUSD Youth Commission meeting to raise awareness of the need for the Richmond High School students input to be heard in youth commission meetings, and urge the space to be more representative of the Richmond population.
Tues, October 24
Youth will mobilize to the WCCUSD District Local Control Accountability Plan Parent Committee to demand meaningful representation of youth voice in district LCAP budgetary decisions. Youth will share testimonies that reflect the importance of students having decision making power that can improve the district's goal 4 (Improve Student Engagement and School Climate) outcomes.
Wed, October 25
Our Schools, Our Power General Meeting at Richmond High School (1250 23rd St. Richmond, CA 94804)centered around social media campaign to elevate Dignity in Schools National Demands.
Thurs, October 26
Our Schools, Our Power lunchtime tabling activity to engage Richmond High School students in the Week of Action.
Fri, October 27
A screening of Full Circle, a documentary that highlights the positive impact of restorative justice practices in the lives of low-income students of color in OUSD schools at the RYSE Center – 205 41st St. Richmond, CA 94804.
Sat, October 28
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, 339 11th St, Richmond, CA 94801
The 3rd annual Truth be Told: Justice Through My Eyes is a film festival designed to highlight and empower youth voices and visions through film at the East Bay Center for Performing Arts. Please click HERE for more information and to purchase your ticket.
For more info contact Valerie Jameson [email protected] Follow RYSE Center on social media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rysecenter/ Twitter: @RYSEyouthcenter
San Francisco
Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth
Wednesday, October 25
Join us for a conversation about youth leadership and civic engagement. Share your experiences and ideas and find out how you can get involved in making change in our schools and communities. This event is part of the Dignity in Schools Campaign 8th Annual National Week of Action Against School Pushout. For more information, email Kevine at [email protected]
More details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1453640134685657/
Padres & Jovenes Unidos
Mon, October 23 – Thurs, October 26 – Tabling
11a – 1p
Various locations
During the week we will do tabling with WoA materials in our youth organizing school sites across the state. For more info contact: Daniel Kim [email protected]
Thurs, October 26 – Rally/Direct Action Event
Denver DPS HQ or City Hall
Rally or direct action in Denver targeting a key city level or school district decision maker or decision-making body to pass either city sanctuary policy or move forward on district implementation of the district's February sanctuary resolution. Our focus will be the school-to-deportation pipeline, which connects the STPP with immigrant rights/protection. For more info contact: Daniel Kim [email protected]
Durango Save the Kids
October 8, 2017 (pre Week of Action event)
Dizzy Wright Interview and Meet and Greet from 6:00pm-7:00pm in the Fort Lewis College Vallecito Room https://www.facebook.com/DizzyWright
October 22nd, 2017
Anti Police Brutality Vigil from 6:30-7:00pm at Fort Lewis College clock tower. https://www.facebook.com/AntiPoliceBrutalityVigil
October 23rd, 2017
Food Drive For La Plata Youth Services until 12 noon at El Centro in Fort Lewis College Student Union
Panel Discussion on Alternatives to Youth Incarceration and Zero Tolerance- 7:00-8:30pm at Fort Lewis College: Noble 130 https://www.facebook.com/PanelDiscussiononAlternativestoIncarcerationofYouth
Candlelight Vigil to honor Womyn of Color 5:00pm at Fort Lewis College clock tower https://www.facebook.com//CandlelightVigil
October 24th-26th, 2017
Working with youth at Durango Boys and Girls Club and Fundraiser-Bake Sale for The 4-Corners Rainbow Youth Center at 5:00pm-7:00pm at Fort Lewis College Student Union. https://www.facebook.com/FundraiserBakeSale
October 25th, 2017
Film Showing of "They Call us Monsters" at Fort Lewis College in Noble Room 125 from 7:00pm-8:30pm. https://www.facebook.com/TheyCallUsMonsters
October 29th, 2017
Schools not Prisons 5K Fun Run form 9:00am-10:00am at Fort Lewis College clock tower. https://www.facebook.com/5kFunRun
Free Lowrider and Car Audio show from 12:00pm-2:00pm at the Jones Parking Lot https://www.facebook.com/LowRiderAudioShow
Hip Hop Show from 2:00pm-4:00pm at Fort Lewis College in the Vallecito Room https://www.facebook.com/HipHopSlam
District of Columbia
Washington, DC
Advocates for Justice and Education
Sat, October 28 – Parent Leadership Training Institute
9:00am – 3:30pm
25 E Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Our WoA will be combined with a parent leadership training institute. During the institute, we will be educating and equipping parents with the knowledge and advocacy skills to navigate the local education. We will include a session on restorative justice and funding as a part of our anti-push-out efforts. For more info contact: Patrice Wedderburn [email protected]
Power U Center for Social Change
Thursday, October 26
Power U Center of Social Change is a proud partner in the 8th Annual National Week of Action Against Schools Pushout! The theme this year is "Education is a Human Right! We Will Not Give Up the Fight!" In conjunction with the National Week of Action, we will be hosting an event, "Can't Stop! Won't Stop!" Power U has been organizing in Miami over 10 years! We can't stop and we won't stop until children and youth a re getting the education they deserve. Join us for an open discussion about how we got here, our wins, our fight and continuous contribution to this great movement! We want the community's input on our forthcoming campaigns as our work is for the betterment of the lives of our communities! There will be a Q&A with youth members and time for a good conversation about what's next! Dinner will be served. Children and youth are welcome to come!
For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/967364053401721/
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Gwinnett STOPP
Sat, October 21
Sit Tight, Education is a Human Right Workshop
Salem Missionary Baptist Church Youth House
4700 Church St NW
Lilburn, GA 30048
Join the ACLU of Georgia, Georgia Legal Services Program, Gwinnett SToPP and Interfaith Children's Movement on Saturday, October 21st for Sit Tight, Education is a Human Right! Come learn your rights as well as develop solutions to achieve fairness, justice, and equity in public education. The event will feature a Know Your Rights workshop by the ACLU of Georgia and the impact the new federal education administration will have on local schools. Also, speak to an attorney one-on-one for FREE about school issues!! For more info, please contact Gwinnett SToPP at [email protected] or 404-590-7877 (texts welcome). For more details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sit-tight-education-is-a-human-right-tickets-38218756329
Gwinnett STOPP/NWGA Federation of Families
Mon, October 23 to Tues, October 24 – Resource Fair
5:30p – 7:30p
Waco Baptist Church
34 Atlantic Ave, Waco Ga. &
450 Riverside Parkway Rome Ga.
The NWGA Federation of Families (Gwinnett SToPP partners) will be hosting a resource fair to bring awareness to parent and youth in the NWGA Region in the following counties- Floyd Co. Polk Co. & Haralson Co. For more info contact: Hope Darden-Swift [email protected]
Blocks Together – Chicago, IL
Weds, October 25 – Community Forum & Action
5:30p – 7:30p
3711 West Chicago Ave
Community forum and action. For more info contact: Cecile Carroll [email protected]
Sat, October 21 – Training
POWER-PAC's Elementary Justice Campaign parent leaders host a "Know Your Rights" training around police in schools with Sargent Shriver Center on Poverty Law and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. Parent leaders participate in deep conversations about the rights that families and youth have around police in schools and how families can advocate for themselves if a student has an encounter with a police officer or is arrested at school.
Woman of God's Design
Sat, October 28 –
New Orleans
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC)/Black Man Rising
Tuesday, October 24
First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans 5212 S. Claiborne Ave New Orleans, LA 70115
Hosted by Black Man Rising, Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children, Community Education Project of New Orleans, Center for Ethical Living and Social Justice Renewal, Dignity in Schools Campaign and #WeChoose Campaign. Community members will put the New Orleans School System on Trial, featuring testimonies from youth, parents, educators and community leaders on school pushout, curriculum and the human right to education in New Orleans charter schools. The event will also feature song and spoken word by local artists. Dinner will be provided.
Community Education Project of New Orleans
Fri, October 27 – Sat, October 28 – Community Forum
6p – 9p
2903 Jefferson Ave
Community forums and also working with partner organization FFLIC. For more info contact: Ruth Idakula at [email protected]
Youth on Board/Boston Student Advisory Council (BSAC)
Thurs, October 26 – Listening Project
2p – 6p
Various stations across the city
Listening Project held directly after school at public transit stations. BSAC and YOUNG members talk to youth about their experiences with school discipline. Large group debriefs directly following the action. For more info contact: Caitlin Donnelly [email protected]
Student Advocacy Center of Michigan
Date & Time TBD
Washtenaw Community College
Teach-In to help schools implement the new discipline law. For more info contact: Peri Stone-Palmquist [email protected]
DWH Inspires – Ypsilanti, MI
Sat, October 21 – Fri, October 26
Time & Location TBD – Events may include a block party, rally on school campus before and during school board meeting, community forum. sit-in at a city council meeting and a march from school to juvenile jail.
Duluth Save the Kids
Time & Location TBD
STK will host 40 WoA events in 12 different cities. Some are tabling, showing films, lectures, rallies, protests, walkouts, teach ins, workshops, and more. For more info contact: Anthony Nocella [email protected]
Minnesota Solutions Not Suspensions
St. Paul-Minneapolis
Twin Cities Save the Kids
Time & Location TBD
STK will host 40 WoA events in 12 different cities. Some are tabling, showing films, lectures, rallies, protests, walkouts, teach ins, workshops, and more. For more info contact: Anthony Nocella [email protected]
Duck Hill
Action Communication and Education Reform
Sat, October 21 – Teach-In
Time & Location TBD
The community forum will educate parents and students about the school to prison pipeline, and provide students a platform to express themselves, become aware of their rights, and encourage them to become involved in the decision-making processes of the school district. For more info contact: Al White [email protected].
Nollie Jenkins Family Center
Sun, October 23 – Teach-In
11:00am – 2:00pm
417 N. Lexington Street, Durant
Students, parents, elected and public officials, and child-servicing agencies in Holmes County will learn about the experiences of Black girls and their increasing rate of incarceration, dropout, and alternative school placement because of zero-tolerance policies that disproportionately push them out of school.
Sat, Oct 28 – March, Rally, Play & Know Your Rights Workshop
10:00A – March & Rally
6:00P – Play/Know Your Rights Workshop
417 N. Lexington Street Durant, MS 39063
Our WOA event will start with a community-wide March/Rally, then continue later in the evening with a stageplay that addresses how the school district fails to meet the needs of diverse group of students, along with uplifting the plight of girls of color, including LGBTQ and how school pushout affects these diverse group of students. Also, that evening we will host a Know Your Rights Workshop. For more info contact: Kameisha Smith [email protected] or Janice Harper [email protected]
Follow Nollie Jenkins on social media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NJFCenter/
Twitter: @NJFCenter
Fannie Lou Hamer Center
Sat, October 21 – Know Your Rights Youth Convening
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Fannie Lou Hamer Center and Retreat Center
Youth Convening on School Pushout and Know Your Rights. For more info contact: Cherraye Oats [email protected]
Citizens for a Better Greenville
Sun, October 15 – Friday, October 20 (Pre WoA Events)
Various Times & Locations
We will be participating in several events in our community which will involve the entire community. We will start with a fire safety festival where elementary, middle and high school students and their families will be participating in events. We will be hosting a Live Remote with a local radio station. We will be giving out information. Then we will be participating in homecoming week activities at the high school which will include a parade and we will be broadcasting during the parade and prior to the homecoming game where we will be emphasizing our theme, "Education is a human right, we will not give up the fight", and will be giving out information.
Activists With A Purpose
Sunflower County
Sunflower County Parents and Students Organization
Sat, October 21/Mon, October 23 – Sat, October 28 – Community Events
SCPSO will hold events throughout the week, including community meetings, marching and chanting, speaking with community leaders and interviewing officials from the school district. For more info contact: Betty Petty [email protected]
Tunica Teens In Action, Inc.
Mon, October 23 – Community Forum
5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
G.W. Henderson Recreation Center
1165 Abbay Drive
Tunica, MS 38676
Tunica Teens In Action will conduct a county wide community forum to raise awareness in the community about the DSC WoA in Tunica County, MS. Tunica Teens In Action would like to draw over 250 people from all districts in the county to our community forum.
Action Communication and Education Reform
Sat, October 28 – Community Forum
10:00 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Location TBD
The community forum will educate parents and students about the school to prison pipeline, and provide students a platform to express themselves, become aware of their rights, and encourage them to become involved in the decision-making processes of the school district. For more info contact: Al White [email protected]
New Jersey
Jersey City
Statewide Education Organizing Committee (SEOC)
Tues, October 24 – Community Forum
6p – 8:30p
Mary Bethune Community Center
Community Forum. For more info contact: Elizabeth Smith [email protected]
SOMA Black Parent Workshop
Tues, October 24 – Teach-In
7 p.m.
Columbia High School
We will host a teach-in at our local high school in collaboration with the Black Student Union, MAC Scholars program and the MapSo Freedom School on disciplinary disparities by race and how they lead to pushing students out of school and into the criminal justice pipeline. For more info contact: Walter Fields [email protected]
Paterson Education Organizing Council & Paterson Education Fund
Weds, October 25 – March & Rally
5p – 7p
Start location TBD
March and Rally from a school to local police station. We will have speakers and will invite our local assembly personso that he will know how to advocate for more funding. The purpose is to stop school push out and keep our kids in school and not in prison. For more info contact: [email protected]
New Mexico
Albuquerque Save the Kids
October 27
Albuquerque Save the Kids visits New Mexico Legislator, Criminal Justice Reform Subcommittee and visits the Juvenile Justice Center bringing awareness about #EndSchoolPushout issues and delivering flyers and materials.
Aztec Save the Kids
Time & Location TBD
STK will host 40 WoA events in 12 different cities. Some are tabling, showing films, lectures, rallies, protests, walkouts, teach ins, workshops, and more. For more info contact: Anthony Nocella [email protected]
New York
New Settlement Parent Action Committee
Weds, Oct 25 – Community Forum
New Settlement Community Campus Auditorium at 1501 Jerome Avenue between 172nd Street and Goble Place (enter at Goble Pl)
The New Settlement Parent Action Committee, (PAC) warmly invites you to our upcoming Townhall: Where are all the Social Workers? on Wednesday, October 25th from 5:30pm-7:30pm at the New Settlement Community Campus Auditorium at 1501 Jerome Avenue between 172nd Street and Goble Place (enter at Goble Pl) an event by parents, school leaders, and community advocates highlighting the need for more social and emotional supports in our public schools.
Sistas and Brothas United
Fri, Oct 27 – Showcase Exhibition
2751 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10468
Through art, SBU leaders will host a Showcase Exhibition that will educate community members and bring awareness to the current school to prison pipeline issues, helping young people and community members reflect critically on the ways in which our school system implements discipline and its disproportionately negative impact on youth of color. The Showcase will also invite guests and visitors to contribute to alternative ways in which behavioral infractions, conflict, and even violence may be dealt with in holistic, student-centered and asset-based approaches within our schools. For more info contact Crystal Reyes [email protected] 718.584.0515 ext 243 Follow Sistas and Brothas United on social media
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBUPower/ Twitter: @SBU_Power
Cypress Hills Development Corp/Future of Tomorrow (active in DSC-NY, joining as national member now)
Mon, October 23 – Thurs, October 26 – Teach-In & Townhalls
Times TBD
F.O.T. will host a week of action for our members, students, and staff from all schools on the Lane Campus.
Dignity in Schools Campaign-New York
Monday, October 23rd
Civic Hall 118 West 22nd Street 12th floor, buzz 12A (Take F/M train to 23rd st)
Dignity in Schools Campaign-NY would like to invite you to our teach-in organized by students, parents, and educators on Monday, October 23rd at 5 pm. The teach-in will focus on the need to end racial disparities in NYC schools. As a coalition we are calling on the Mayor to end school based arrests and summonses in NYC schools. This event is part of our 8th annual week of action against schoolpushout. Join us to learn about how to help fight for our students! The event will feature a discussion, followed by a video screening, and Theater of the Oppressed piece on the School to Prison Pipeline. There will also be optional breakout sessions to discuss these topics further. DSC Week of Action Flyer 2017 We will be providing food, it will be great to have a headcount. Please RSVP to [email protected]
Girls for Gender Equity
Wed, November 8 (post Week of Action)
Girls for Gender Equity will release thier Schools Girls Deserve Report, documenting a 2-year participatory action research project where girls and TGNC youth of color identify what pushes them out of school and uplift the vision of the school that they deserve.
NYC Save the Kids
Time & Location TBD
STK will host 40 WoA events in 12 different cities. Some are tabling, showing films, lectures, rallies, protests, walkouts, teach ins, workshops, and more. For more info contact: Anthony Nocella [email protected]
Teachers Unite – New York, NY
Buffalo Save the Kids
Time & Location TBD
STK will host 40 WoA events in 12 different cities. Some are tabling, showing films, lectures, rallies, protests, walkouts, teach ins, workshops, and more. For more info contact: Anthony Nocella [email protected]
Center for Community Alternatives
Date, Time & Location TBD
Teach-in/Community forum- Educate parents, students, and decision makers on NYS's just enacted Raise the Age law and how this impacts juvenile justice including rights of students and parents impacted by school-based arrests. Audience: Focus on parents and students most directly impacted by RTA law and how it will impact the processing of young people arrested, including students subjected to school-based arrests.
For more info contact: Marsha Weissman [email protected]
North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Blue Ribbon Youth Leadership Institute
Weds, October 25
A Classroom in Color – Week of Action
6:00 p.m.
Chapel Hill Public Library (Presented in Spanish & English)
In this student-led workshop, Blue Ribbon YLI & MSAN students answer essential questions, analyze the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Conduct of Color, and share their experiences with microaggressions in various school contexts. Student presenters addressed strategies to provide more equitable solutions to the disparities in instruction and discipline that students of color encounter daily in our schools.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Education is a Human Right – Week of Action (Solutions Not Suspensions)
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Chapel Hill Public Library
Will North Carolina's new education plan provide opportunities for all children to succeed in education and life? (ESSA- Every Student Succeeds Act)
How will the new policy affect the state and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools policies? Explore next steps and opportunities to get involved in advancing educational equity for all North Carolina's students.
There will also be a "Know Your Rights" discussion facilitated by the North Carolina ACLU.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Follow Blue Ribbon YLI on Facebook or Twitter @BlueRibbonYLI For more info contact: Lorie Clark [email protected]
Youth Organizing Institute
Sat, October 21 – Annual STPP March
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Start Location TBD
6th Annual STPP March. For more info contact: Tavon Bridges [email protected]
Education Justice Alliance
Racial Justice NOW!
Thurs, October 26 – School Board Candidates Roundtable
6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Westwood Elementary
2805 Oakridge Dr
Dayton, OH 45417
Racial Justice NOW! will host a roundtable for the candidates running for Dayton Public school board around the theme Education is a Human Right. For more info contact: Cameron Walker [email protected]
West Dayton Youth Task Force
Sat, October 28 – Gem City End #School2Prison 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament
12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Westwood Elementary
2805 Oakridge Dr
Dayton, OH 45417
WDYTF will host the 'Gem City' End #School2Prison Pipeline Classic. There will be a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, a rap and dance contest, and hip-hop pedagogy workshops. There will be food and giveaways. For more info contact: Josh Harrison [email protected]
Portland Parent Union
Sat, October 21 – Sat, October 28
For more info about week long events contact: Sheila Warren[email protected]. For real time updates, connect with PPU's Facebook event page!
Mon, October 23
6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Elmers on Sandy
Relationship Building Reception
This will be our Opening WoA event. Appetizers will be served.
Tues, October 24
5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
501 N. Dixon
Press Conference/School Board Rally and Testimony
Wed, October 25 to Thurs, October 26
9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (times are flexible)
Parent-to-Parent training on restorative justice in Portland Public Schools and other districts. Using Parent-to-Parent Guide on Restorative Justice in the Chicago Public Schools.
Fri, October 27
9:15 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Resolutions NW's RJ Young Folks and PPU Parents march together in solidarity against push out. Students will run their own program against push out at Morning Star Church. March will start at Rigler.
Sat, October 28
9:15 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Concordia University Hayden Center
2811 NE Holman Street
Portland, OR 97211
Trust Circle Conversations with guest speakers and panelists
Resolutions Northwest
Wed, October 25th
Maranatha Church
Portland, OR
Our WoA event will be youth led focusing on the youth voice in the community. For more info contact: Robert Blake [email protected]
Education Rights Network
Sat, October 21
Houston Save the Kids
Time & Location TBD
STK will host 40 WoA events in 12 different cities. Some are tabling, showing films, lectures, rallies, protests, walkouts, teach ins, workshops, and more. For more info contact: Anthony Nocella [email protected]
Tenants and Workers United – Alexandria, VA
Cora Kelly Kelly Elementary School Cafeteria
Tenants and Workers United will be hosting a community forum along with the school district – Alexandria City Public School, the Alexandria Branch NAACP and the Advancement Project. This community forum will be the launching of the campaign to expand restorative justice in the middle schools due to high suspension rates among youth of color. Their will be presentations coming from youth, parents, the school district and the Advancement Project.
Advocates for Equity in Schools
Saturday, October 21, 2017
1588 Mountain Rd, Glen Allen, 23060
Youth Teach-In/Community Panel. For more info contact: Kandise Lucas [email protected]
Event Speakers:
Youth Advocate And Virginia Pre-School-To-Prison Pipeline Survivor, Monty Howard, New Kent County
Civil Rights Activist And Legal Eagle, Saad El-Amin
Advocates For Equity In Schools will hold its annual Week Of Action event as we honor "warriors for justice" from all areas of our community; to include students, parents, advocates, elected officials, faith-based leaders, policy analysts, law enforcement, and our legal allies.
We will also host a youth and adult panel, where the community will have unique opportunity to ask our youth their perspectives regarding the impact of school push out and their recommendations for dismantling Virginia's Pre-School-To-Prison Pipeline. Our families will have the opportunity to share your voice with our media partners as well as social media resources.
*Light refreshments will be served.
See more here: https://www.facebook.com/
Prom Bring It / Go High
Date & Location TBD
Music video listening party followed up by a forum. The audience will consist of fellow youth from the area, local government officials, non-profits, schools, local dignitaries. It will be organized by the youth. For more info contact: Jenny High [email protected]
I Vote for Me
Tues, Oct 24
6p – 9p
We are organizing multiple community organizations that support youth and family to produce a rally or retreat event. A county supervisor, city council member and school board members from two jurisdictions are participating in our strategy work. The focus will be on students but attract parents as well. Sexuality (LGBTQ) issues and push out will be our focus. The schools in our focus area (straddling a city/county line) are in a majority minority area of the twojurisdictions with high poverty rates. For more info contact: Roland Winston [email protected]
Strategic Litigation Consultants
Date & Location TBD
Conducting an Education Advocacy Teach-In. For more info contact: Saad El-Amin [email protected]