Community Organizing news

• Detroit News: Project to help 47 teens spur change in southwest Detroit

• Community challenges cuts to bilingual education in state budget

• Rally draws 900 people and key pledges from policymakers

• Metro Times blog on the March 22 rally

• CBS Detroit: Parents rally for education in Detroit

• WXYZ-TV: Giant rally planned for schools, neighborhoods, jobs

• Detroit Free Press: Ordinance would give felons break

• Detroit News: Activists want to bar criminal background checks for Detroit vendors

• Detroit News: Push to Ban the Box (felony conviction) continues

• Detroit News: Warming center in Detroit finally opens; 50 stay the first night

• Dynamic southwest Detroit principal Helena Lazo retires

• WXYZ-TV: Youth rally to end violence and seek the ears of Detroit leaders

• WDET-FM: Youth Group Seeks Anti-Violence Plan for Detroit

• Michigan Radio: Detroit youth spearhead anti-violence effort

• WDET-FM: Detroit Teens Invite Local Officials to Anti-Violence Summit

• CNN interviews Youth Voice leaders after Mayor Bing meeting

• Youth Voice anti-violence summit: Video

• Photo story: Youth Voice meets with Mayor Bing

• Associated Press: Teens ask Bing for solutions to ills

• Robert Bobb meets with Youth Voice at Southwest Solutions

• Community organizers get City to demolish blighted houses near elementary school

• Photo story: Community organizing at Phoenix Academy

• Photo story: Community Organizing at Roberto Clemente Academy

• Photo story: Youth Voice summit on May 1, 2009

• YouTube video of Youth Voice summit on May 1, 2009