The Arise Podcast Danielle S. Castillejo, Margalyn Hemphill

Justice for ALL Students Campaign, Part 4
In Their Own Voices - here first hand from those at the November 22, 2022 meeting, including other voices who spoke publicly in the past few months to the North Kitsap School Board, with no response to this date as to implementation of any of the (7) solutions presented to the Superintendent and School Board in February 2023.

In this Episode (of dealing with North Kitsap School District), I open up with some brief history, the basic law of Lau v. Nichols (1973-1974), and how that changed the English Language Access for students, an example of one complaint from our school district, as well as hearing from community members in their own voices, in their own words, both Allies, and personal examples of what they experienced, how they are involved with advocacy, and what, if anything has changed since last year (2022)

Conversations on faith, race, justice, gender healing in the church. This morning I'm coming at you with a throwback episode that I recorded, actually last year after working with Chasing Justice in Sandra Van Opstal, in Chicago, and things I learned about the Latinx collective experience. Looking forward to sharing this with you. I think it might be helpful to throw this in, in the middle of the series on what is going on with the school board and the Latino community here. And I know I'm focusing on Latino community, Latinx community, but really there's such a need for justice among all of our communities. But I cannot speak to everyone's experience. So as other people's voices come in, they will speak to their own experience. I hope to amplify that. So listen in.

During this episode, hear more of the history of racism and efforts to work with North Kitsap School District from community members, some names are shielded for safety reason. You will also have the opportunity to hear some of the details of the November timeline and be introduced to KAIRE (Kitsap Advocating for Immigrant Rights and Equality) and how they came into the picture.

After a few months hiatus, Partly that is due to me, Danielle Rueb - Castillejo, doing this on my own, and also just in February, having a town hall and gathering the Latino/a/x community together, and which this situation with the school board has not been resolved yet. This is the history of the "break" and what led to the Latino/a/x - Community Town Hall in February 2023.
This has taken an honorable place of, of my time and I'm continuing to work towards that - toward justice in the North Kitsap school district, and equity. It might be helpful to tell a little bit of the history of how that got started and, what happened for me and why the meeting happened in November of 2022. If you're following along, I'll put some links to the Kitsap Sun articles, in the notes.

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