Social Justice @ LREI

On March 8th, our group spoke to one of the members at Campaign for Educational Equity named Jessica Wolff. The Campaign for Educational Equity is an organization that helps impoverished children to get the same/equal services as more...

On March 6th, my group and I talked to a woman named Bonnie Greaves who is a volunteer at the Citizens' Committee for Children. This organization's goal is to "educate and mobilize New Yorkers to make the city a better place for children". This...

On March 7th, the Child Poverty had 

Last Saturday my social justice group and I volunteered at St Joe's Soup Kitchen from 9:00 - 12:00 preparing food for the homeless and the hungry. We went hoping to experience poverty first hand and to get in the field of poverty. We prepared...

The eighth graders worked incredibly hard to put together the assemblies and workshops for the Teach-In. Please provide a comment below on your experience as a participant. What did you enjoy about the assemblies and workshops? What did you learn?...

On February 23, the Child Poverty had the opportunity to go

On February 22nd, the Child Poverty Group went to visit a wonderful organization called Street Squash! This is a free program that tutors 6th through 12th graders with classwork that the teachers at Street Squash provide them. We sat and...

On Friday, March 1st, my group and I met with Katherine Tabares and her assistant, Antonio. Katherine and Antonio work for Make the Road, an organization that helps immigrants with their struggles, educates them and helps them with any problems they...

On January 11, 2013, my group brought Osman Canales, an El Salvadorian Immigrant and DREAM Act activist, to talk during the advisory period at our school, Little Red Elisabeth Irwin. (LREI). The DREAM Act is a U.S. Federal Law that has not been...

On Friday, March 1st, 2013, my group and I met with Katherine Tabares and her assistant, Antonio. Katherine and Antonio work for Make the Road, an organization headquartered in Queens that helps immigrants with their struggles, educates them, and...

This is the quote to go alongside with the photo before this one. 

The caption about this girl's eye injury is in the next photo.

An inmate in his cell. He must have been there for a while to have so many things in his cell. 

This is a sample uniform the exhibit had. From a distance the shoes looked like they were made of leather, but actually they were made from plastic. That must be extremely uncomfortable. 

These were the handcuffs that I put on. 

I tried on the same device that the teenager was wearing in the picture before this one. (Taken by Lauren)

Handcuff and hip retraining device. (Taken by Lauren)

(Taken by Lauren)