“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
-Dr. martin luther king, jr.
grassroots power
We’re committed to building holistic visions for community health in San Francisco. We aim to uplift grassroots platforms that promote proactive demands for equity and justice on multiple fronts. We believe that movement building across racial, economic, educational, gender, and juvenile justice is critical to advancing interventions to systems of criminalization, poverty, and trauma. More importantly, we believe that it’s the leadership of our most marginalized communities who will define the terms of our collective healing and liberation.
Video Edited by Anthony Navarro.
Ethnic Studies Project (ESP) was a youth-created sage space, to build their leadership skills while building solidarity among communities of color across San Francisco. This project was developed out of the youth-led grassroots vision and advocacy for culturally relevant education in SFUSD. Majority of students at Balboa at this time (2010-2016) were working class and qualified for free and reduced lunch, and were either 1st generation immigrant or the children of immigrants. We supported youth to build a leadership pipeline into social justice organizations, allowing students to apply lessons learned in the classroom to current issues.
ESP was created in partnership with Youth In Power (People Organized to Win Employment Rights, Youth Making a Change (Coleman Advocates), ALAY (Active Leadership to Advance the Youth), Kabataan Youth Program (Filipino Community Center), and AROC (Arab Resource and Organizing Center). This project later evolved into the Solidarity Organizing Project (SOP).
Ethnic Studies Project (ESP) was a youth-created sage space, to build their leadership skills while building solidarity among communities of color across San Francisco. This project was developed out of the youth-led grassroots vision and advocacy for culturally relevant education in SFUSD. Majority of students at Balboa at this time (2010-2016) were working class and qualified for free and reduced lunch, and were either 1st generation immigrant or the children of immigrants. We supported youth to build a leadership pipeline into social justice organizations, allowing students to apply lessons learned in the classroom to current issues.
ESP was created in partnership with Youth In Power (People Organized to Win Employment Rights, Youth Making a Change (Coleman Advocates), ALAY (Active Leadership to Advance the Youth), Kabataan Youth Program (Filipino Community Center), and AROC (Arab Resource and Organizing Center). This project later evolved into the Solidarity Organizing Project (SOP).