Carissa Purnell Salinas Public Library 2012 Eureka! Leadership Institute Social Justice Academy funded in part by The California State Library, Library Services And Technology Act (LSTA) and the California Endowment Building Healthy Communities Initiative.

Racism Education Injustice Prison Industrial Complex Media White Privilege Institutionalized Oppression Immigration Policy Voting Regulations Poverty Health Built Environment Democracy Advocacy Community Organizing Social Movements Historical Context Philosophy Politics

WHY do our youth need to know this content…? (Shouldn’t schools be teaching this?)

In Salinas 100% of the children in the qualify for free and reduced lunch. POVERTY The Alisal District has been the worst performing district in the state for 4 consecutive years. EDUCATION The homicide rate among Monterey County youths led California counties in 2009 — and was nearly three times the state as a whole, a report released Monday said. And from there, the news doesn't get better: Monterey County had 50 percent more youth homicides per capita than Alameda, the California county with the next-highest rate (Violence Policy Center, California Department of Justice data and looked at homicide victims ages 10 to 24) VIOLENCE We are a Latino city (74%) and the life expectancy is lower for black and brown communities, with higher reported cases of heart disease, hyper tension, diabetes, and obesity. HEALTH

but what is CRITICAL thinking… We see the data so how do we change it… CRITICAL THINKING

“Everything happens for a reason ”

“There’s a reason for WHY things happen”

The Salinas Public Library Is designed to identify those reasons why, to explore the historical context, motive, impact, and find solutions … and this is how…

the texts Pedagogy of the Oppressed The Art of Critical Pedagogy The Autobiography of Malcom X Angela Davis An Autobiography The Rose That Grew From Concrete Union of Their Dreams Book of Rhymes: The Poetics Of Hip Hop Learning to Teach for Social Justice Millennials, Activism and Race Hope on a Tightrope Democracy Matters The Prince The Art of War the authors

the music Immortal Technique Billy Holiday Lupe Fiasco Tupac Shakur Drake Jay-Z MosDef Common Lauryn Hill

The Spook Who Sat By The Door Unnatural Causes (PBS) Sin País Which Way Home El Corrido de Cecilia Rios A Hard Straight the films

Community Events “The Loss of Our Cultural Identity/ La Perdida de la Identidad Cultural” “Racial Equity and Structural Racism/ Equidad Racial y Racismo Estructural”

“I live in a state of POVERTY in Salinas” student work

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.” -Cesar Chavez