The Youth Way Campaign is a youth-led partnership between the Boston-area Youth Organizing Project (BYOP) and the Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project (REEP), with support from the T Riders Union (TRU).
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ACE: Alternatives for Community and Environment |
BYOP: Boston-area Youth Organizing Project |
| ACE builds the power of communities of color and lower income communities in New England to eradicate environmental racism and classism and achieve environmental justice. We believe that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and to be decision-makers in issues affecting our communities.
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REEP: Roxbury Environmental Empowerment ProjectREEP is a youth-led organizing program. We build youth power for environmental justice in Roxbury, Dorchester and across the City of Boston. Join us! Visit REEP’s web site and Facebook page!
TRU: T Riders UnionThe T Riders Union organizes riders of the MBTA to demand first class service in transit dependent communities and to build a movement for better public transit in Greater Boston. Every rider has a place in our monthly meetings. Visit TRU’s web site and Facebook page! |
Established in 1996, BYOP is on fourteen years of youth-led organizing experience. We are an organization of youth, led by youth, supported by adults, and united by a common purpose: to increase youth power and create positive social change. To do this we identify values, build relationships across differences, train and develop leaders, identify key issues of concern, and take action for justice.
BYOP is a space for youth to discuss the problems they face as a constituency. BYOP identifies issues from these problems in Boston area communities and schools. Some of the common problems our constituency struggles with are gun violence in neighborhoods, no access to health care, school closings, dropping out of school, no jobs, police harassment, epidemic HIV infections rising among youth of color and more. For BYOP youth organizing is an urgent response to save lives in the midst of hopelessness. BYOP takes the problem and puts it through an analysis, to identify it as an issue current issues include: more foundational money in BPS budget, creating safe spaces in neighborhoods for youth, better access for health care and affordable public transit. In 2010 BYOP youth created a clear platform of which youth issues we organize around. BYOP’s Youth Justice Platform has five key issues are: Education, Transportation, Health, Safety and Job/Recreation 565 Boylston Street, 5th floor Visit our web site http://byop.org or our Facebook page. |
