Join Teen Empowerment and our co-sponsors at the Unity Rally for Children Left Behind at the State House in Boston on Wednesday, May 21, at 3:00 PM. Everyone who supports educational equality in Massachusetts is invited! What is the rally about? READ THIS! And for more information, read an op-ed about urban schools in the Boston Globe written by TE's executive director, and download TE's new publication, Voices of Children Left Behind in Massachusetts Public Schools.
The Boston Youth Peace Conference on May 10 was a great success! Read about it in the Boston Herald. At the conference, TE premiered a video that we produced, Voices from Behind the Wall, featuring messages to youth from inmates at the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, MA. Here are two articles about the video from the Boston Globe. Prison counsel and In video, a message to victim
The Peace Conference is part of Peace Month in Boston--download the Peace Month calendar of events to promote peace on Boston streets.
TE on YouTube: See what people are saying about TE. Check out a powerful and moving speech by a TE youth organizer.
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Youth Peace Conferences
Teen Empowerment's Youth Peace Conferences bring together hundreds of teens to think about issues of concern to urban youth through interactive workshops led by young people and presentations featuring theater, rap, spoken word, and speeches.
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