“Duh!” written on numerous post-its were placed on a human body drawn on butcher paper. The body was one of three, each one representing a different audience that would receive findings from the youth survey. The body represented Khmer youth and workshop participants felt that the response of youth to each finding they reviewed, would be – of course, we already knew that.
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On 03.03.10, In Program Updates, By admin
On 03.03.10, In Program Updates, By admin
In 2003, DataCenter was approached by the Domestic Workers United to partner on a participatory, worker-led research project to document the working conditions of domestic workers in New York City. That project led to a parallel one in the Bay Area and the two projects laid down the groundwork for institutionalizing community-led research at the DataCenter.
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On 02.26.10, In Program Updates, By admin
By Noemi Bravo
Watch: Oakland High School Student Interview; Student-Teacher Fishbowl Skyline HS
Download: Town Researchers 2010 Calendar in pdf format.
Da Town Researchers are moving into Phase Two of Gathering Voice: Research and Data Collection! This year, Da Town Researchers are focusing on student support systems in Oakland schools. Three different teams have focused on Student-Teacher Relationships, Counseling Systems and Emotional Support. We have finished Phase one, which consisted of surveying about 700 students. These surveys gathered voice from ten high schools with the help of All City Council. Phase two will consist of interviews, school and classroom observations, and focus groups with students, parents and school staff.
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On 02.05.10, In Indigenous Knowledge Project, Program Updates, By Allen
By Nadine Padilla, Coordinator, MASE (Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment) Coalition, Albuquerque, NM.
DataCenter and Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE) partnered in late 2009 to bring 12 young people together for an Indigenous Knowledge and Research Justice Camp. The 2-day camp was the first step in building a network of young people that can participate in and eventually lead the current uranium battles, offering their skills and talents as politically-oriented organizers, artists, and performers.
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On 11.04.09, In Program Updates, Youth Strategy Project, By Allen
Khmer Girls for Action works primarily with young girls of Southeast Asian descent in the Long Beach area in Southern California. Most are from low income, immigrant and/or refugee families and face such issues such as poverty, racism, and violence. Though Long Beach is home to the largest Cambodian population in the United States, there is a dearth of data and information that reflect the experience of the community. For this reason, KGA decided to launch a research project that would assess the conditions and needs among Khmer youth in their community. KGA hopes that the findings will inform the myriad services serving youth in Long Beach so they can better meet the needs of this very vulnerable, often marginalized population.
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On 05.11.09, In Indigenous Knowledge Project, Program Updates, By admin
Presented May 11, 2009 (Wed) nation-wide and internationally! Click here to listen on your local public radio station or to download a podcast.
With DataCenter support, our youth intern Michael Preston, a young emerging leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Northern California, along with our research intern Rachel Gelfand worked closely with one of National Radio Project’s own star producers Andrew Stelzer to produce a very powerful radio documentary: War Dance of the Winnemem Wintu. Preston presents the story of his tribe and their struggle to prevent the flooding of the sacred land and native ecology they have called home for centuries. The Winnemem evoked the ceremonial War Dance to protect their sacred sites, burial grounds, and historical village sites from further destruction in 1887, 2004 and again in 2009. (more…)
On 04.20.09, In Economic Justice Program, Program Updates, By admin
This month, DataCenter joined Just Cause Oakland in a community workshop for the Right to the City (RTTC) white paper, HOMESICK: A Community-Driven Prescription to the Affordable Housing Crisis, coming out this summer. Across the country, our RTTC allies are holding similar workshops, from New York to New Orleans, taking a first hand look at local research on public and subsidized housing, and making room for the lived experiences of residents. (more…)
On 04.19.09, In Environmental Justice, Program Updates, By admin
Congratulations to Maria Gunnoe, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition!
We congratulate Maria, 2009 recipient of the prestigious Goldman Prize for the Environment! DataCenter is proud, and humbled, to be a part of the historic effort Maria and other community residents led to halt mountaintop removal coal mining – a truly historic victory – by providing critical campaign support through research and analysis. (more…)
On 03.07.09, In Program Updates, Youth Strategy Project, By admin
An Intensive Training Camp on Social Justice Youth-led Research
…with Youth in Focus.
On March 7th, 2009, youth organizers from a variety of organizations in the East Bay and San Francisco united at the Madison Park Apartments Community Room in Oakland with the desire to learn more about the range of methods that can be used to document the realities lived by people in their day to day life in order to produce data that will actually reflect the truth as they know it. The main objective of the day was to instill a heightened sense of familiarity and confidence in these impassioned organizers in order for them to approach research as a strategic tool used to empower their voices and bring real change to their communities. (more…)
On 12.01.05, In Economic Justice Program, Program Updates, By admin
Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM)’s Immigrant Justice Program and CAAAV’s Women Workers Project (WWP) in New York City have joined together to conduct a community documentation project to show how Asian low-income immigrant workers are affected by unfair immigration policies and practices.
DRUM’s Immigrant Justice Program builds the power of low-income immigrants to end rising detention, deportation and abuse of immigrant detainees, and to end anti-immigrant policies of the Department of Homeland Security. As New York City’s economy increasingly relies on the exploited labor of undocumented immigrant service workers, CAAAV’s Women Workers Project seeks to develop leadership among and create spaces for Asian women working in these sectors to unite with other immigrant workers to fight sweatshop conditions and build power for all low-wage workers City-wide. Women Workers Project also mobilizes Asian women workers to oppose racist immigration practices that tear communities apart, and promotes policies supporting human rights and dignity for all. (more…)