A quick YouTube search reveals a wave of grassroots opposition to Prop 6. Most are home-made, amateur videos from young people and youth advocates. The videos come from all across California - SoCal, Central and Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. Some are funny. Some are meant to pull at the heart strings. And others are informational. Yet almost all seem to be against the proposition.
"Well, we don't have the money to do a 30 minute commercial like Obama, or even 30 seconds because airtime is so expensive...But what we do have is people power and this thing is going viral," says Christina "Krea" Gomez of Community Justice Network for Youth (CJNY), a national network of grassroots organizations, service providing agencies, residential facilities and advocacy groups that focus their work on youth of color.
CJNY and their member groups across the state are part of various coalitions to defeat Prop 6, which they say will increase racial disparities and unequal sentencing, lower the age a child can be tried as an adult to 14 and move tax payer dollars from schools and after school programs to prisons. See their blog and YouTube page.
Contact Karlos Gauna Schmieder at 510 444 0640x333 or by email.
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