RJN! Co-Founder launches Book Tour in Washington, D.C. with Dayton, Ohio tour stop TBA

Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out!  features voices from the frontlines of a new movement for educational justice that is growing across the United States. Each author tells their own story of how black and brown parents, students, educators, and their allies are fighting back against profound and systemic inequities and mistreatment of children of color in low-income communities. The organizers and activists recount their journeys to movement building, lift up victories and successes, and offer practical organizing strategies and community-based alternatives to traditional education reform and privatization schemes.

“Lift Us Up! Don’t Push Us Out! is a bold and exciting book that presents the stories we never hear—powerful stories of successful grassroots organizing in schools and communities across the nation led by parents, students, educators, and allies.  The lessons we can learn from these inspiring activists and campaigns need to be spread far and wide.”

Check out the interview on Beacon Broadside!

Author Mark Warren and contributors Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Jitu Brown and Jonathan Stith sat down with the Beacon Broadside to discuss Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out! and what it means to them. Read their interview (Part 1, Part 2)  and get your copy now!

We’re excited to announce our book launch with a panel discussion and talk back, taking place on September 11th, 2018 at Busboys and Poets, located at 1025 5th St NW, Washington, DC 20001, from 6:30-8:30PM. See attached flyer to join us in person, or to see how to watch the launch via livestream.

Co-Author Mark Warren, along with various contributors will travel to various cities (see www.liftusupmovement.org for more details) to highlight the activism and organizing profiled and begin discussions about the People’s Think Tank.

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Media kit available at: http://www.beacon.org/assets/clientpages/LiftUsUpContributors.aspx

From contributor Zakiya Sankara-Jabar:

“I felt it was important to contribute a story, particularly from black parents’ perspective. For me, I came to this work really organically, responding to my son at the time who was being pushed out of preschool. Just as a response, pushing back, not accepting the narrative that the school system was providing regarding my son, asking questions, but not only that, taking it a step further to engage other black parents in that same space, to ask them the same question, “Are you having this experience?”

“When I realized that it wasn’t just me and this was much bigger and had been happening for decades in this country, I felt the need to start an organization to continue to organize our particular community, the parents, to push back on the cradle-to-prison pipeline, and make sure that black parents knew they had a voice, that they had a right to speak up, that they had a right to ask questions, and that they had a right not accept what the school system was saying about our children.”

Discounted price available for bulk purchase. Please contact Jennifer Canela at JCanela@Beacon.org

Join us in D.C. Tuesday, September 11th at Busboys and Poets 1025 5th st N.W., 6:30-8:30

Dayton, Ohio  November Book Tour Stop TBA