Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE)

Listening to CADRE on #BuildingPower on FB Live.

This coming Wednesday at 9 AM PST (Noon ET), CADRE Core Leaders, Roslyn Broadnax & Thalia Carmona, and CADRE Executive Director Maisie Chin will be on #BuildingPower to discuss Grassroots Education Advocacy.

Last night we completed the third of our three-day webinar series on the roots of school policing in LAUSD. The final night was a parent-centered dialogue on how LA grassroots parents can join the fight to defund school police & be part of redefining school and community safety. #SouthLAParentLove #ReimagineSchoolSafety

A brief glimpse into day-one of the Parent Empowerment Assembly as our CADRE parent leaders work to connect with new parents to continue cultivating their collective strength and wisdom. #SouthLAParentLove

The first day of our two-day Parent Empowerment Assembly is underway via Zoom. The Assembly is for Black and Brown South LA Parents, to connect and build their resilience as they prepare for the new school year. #SouthLAParentLove

CADRE parent leaders are excited to participate in this political education opportunity offered by DSC CA, and its member organizations. #COVID19Demands #DSCCAFrontlines #DSCCASolidarity

A community is at its best when it acts to #ChooseBlackLives. Investing in Black communities benefits the collective future of all Californians. Instead, we have chosen to invest in mass incarceration. Let’s heed the call of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. We must shift funds from punishing and incarcerating people towards health, education, food, job training and other critical needs! Call the Governor to tell him we need community-based alternatives to traditional policing: https://p2a.co/BLIE6lZ #ChooseHealthNotHandcuffs #DefundPolice #ChooseUs #RepCA

A brief glimpse into tonight’s Political Education meeting- Discussing disproportionate representation Black and Brown communities in COVID-19 cases. #SouthLAParentLove

VICTORY! A big win last week for organizers including Brothers, Sons, Selves Coalition, Students Deserve, Community Coalition, Innercity Struggle, Youth Justice Coalition, and Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE) who fought for and won a 35% cut to the LAUSD School Budget. This is a huge step in decriminalizing students and the $25m divestment away from police can now be invested into resources and support for Black students.

"Today people tend to assume police were placed in schools in response to the first school shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. But in reality, police presence in Oakland schools has a long, racist past that needs to be shed and undone. The origin of police in schools is rooted in a racist ideological reaction to the mass migration of Southern Black families to Oakland in the 1940s and 1950s." #ReimagineSchoolSafety #AbolishSchoolPolice

After a decade of work by the Black Organizing Project,the school board vote is tonight. The George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate OSPD!

Speaking on behalf of CADRE Parents, Anton Rankin, CADRE Core Leader, calls on the LAUSD School Board to defund school police. #DefundSchoolPolice and #ReimagineSchoolSafety