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Reverend Leon Wood: Living Life as Minister, Educator, Activist

4 years ago Feature, The Palacio Podcast
Reverend Leon Wood

Reverend Leon Wood is a founder and President of Success in Challenges, a non-profit grass-roots social service agency largely serving the greater Long Beach Community.  At various times in his life, he has been and still is a Minister, Educator, and Activist. Reverend Wood has a long list of life experiences that have served as…

Democracy Now!

Amazon’s Defeat in NYC Galvanizes Movement to End Corporate Welfare

4 years ago Democracy Now

“New York City is still reeling since Amazon announced last week that it was scrapping plans to build a major office facility in Queens. The decision came under mounting pressure from grassroots activists and local politicians who opposed the deal. Amazon had announced the project in November after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New…

Palacio Podcast

James Suazo Credits His Family for Mission as a Community Organizer

4 years ago Feature, The Palacio Podcast
James Suazo

James Suazo is Associate Director for Long Beach Forward where he oversees communications strategies while providing support to the organization’s multiple initiatives and campaigns. Long Beach Forward is a nonprofit whose vision is to create a healthy Long Beach so that race and income don’t determine one’s future. “…A community where everyone is safe, connected, and…

Voices in My Head

1968, New York, and What I Left Behind

5 years ago Feature
1968

Fifty years ago, in 1968, a roaring fire swept across this nation and the world. As ThinkProgress.com writer Sam Fulwood III described in a piece recently, “This year marks the 50th anniversary of 1968, arguably one of the most traumatic years in our nation’s history, filled with war, riots, assassinations, political upheavals, and social unrest.” At the…

TEDx

TEDx presents “Black Women In Politics” by Jasmen Rogers-Shaw

5 years ago TEDx

“What should Black women do when they aren’t given a seat at the table? Jasmen Rogers is a community organizer in Dade and Broward counties, working primarily at the intersections of racial and gender justice. Jasmen developed a zeal for social justice after the 2006 tragic death of Martin Lee Anderson at the hands of…

TEDx

TEDx: Evolution of a Revolution by Jaime Witherspoon

5 years ago TEDx

“A look at how protests and revolutions have evolved and changed. Jaime is a junior at Mays High and a top athlete on the girls softball team. She is #2 in the state of Georgia for Grand slams by a girl. She believes in equality and speaks up on behalf of other students that she…

Voices in Our Heads

Jessica Quintana is Always Pushing Forward

6 years ago Feature

Jessica Quintana, Executive Director of Centro CHA, reminds me of another community organizer I had the honor to work with during 1968-69. Evelina Lopez Antonetty was a civil rights activist who fought battles with the Education establishment on behalf of parents and children of the Bronx. Like Jessica Quintana, she was dogged in her determination…

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