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Title: Meet the ‘Radical Brownies’ – girl scouts for the modern age (Oakland, CA)
Source:
Fusion
URL Source: http://fusion.net/story/39637/meet- ... irl-scouts-for-the-modern-age/
Published: Jan 22, 2015
Author: Jorge Rivas
Post Date: 2015-01-25 21:00:33 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 109
Comments: 5
Not all girl scouts are concerned with peddling shortbread cookies. There’s one troop of young girls in Oakland that discusses matters of racial inequality and wear brown berets in an homage to radical civil rights groups. The girls, ages 8-12, are part of the “Radical Brownies,” an edgier, younger version of the Girl Scouts, where girls earn badges for completing workshops on social protests, and a beauty workshop that celebrate racial diversity. Radical Brownies is dedicated to providing young girls of color relevant life experiences, explains the group’s co-founder Anayvette Martinez. Martinez, a community organizer, created the Radical Brownies with Marilyn Hollinquest because “there aren’t enough spaces [for young girls of color] in our society.” The Radical Brownies of Oakland launched last month and already includes 12 girls. All the members are girls of color or mixed-race. The Radical Brownies are not affiliated with the Girl Scouts of the USA. The founders say once the program expands to multiple chapters the organization will be open to everybody, but the program will always remain focused on young girls of color. In the Radical Brownies, girls learn about social justice movements such the Black Panthers and the Chicano group Brown Berets. They wear their brown berets in homage to those two groups. But they also study how Disney princesses define girls’ image of beauty, and how that can affect self-image. The Radical Brownies have their own badge system, including one for “Radical Beauty” and an “LGBT ally” badge. The girls also earned a “Black Lives Matter” badge after learning about police accountability and attending a civil rights march in Oakland. “I think it’s never too early to have these conversations with young people,” Martinez told Fusion. “Children are more aware than we think; it’s important to not shelter children from real issues that we’re living,” she said. “It’s especially important for young girls of color to feel empowered.” The troop is ready to attend more protest and will soon launch a fundraising campaign on their Facebook page to raise money for a banner and a megaphone. Poster Comment: Power to the People.....'n sheeit.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
If I were younger, I would move to Japan to live.
Stop before puking. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Oh, come on, those girls are learning the black power/commie salute!!! Aren't they cute??
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
“there aren’t enough spaces [for young girls of color] in our society.”
#3. To: Lod (#2)
-Alex Kurtagic
#4. To: X-15, 4 (#0)
While ppl are looking for the Mossad hit team that did the Paris shooting, our nation is being over run and overturned.
#5. To: X-15 (#0)
I'm in the Bay Area and I recognize some of those faces on a package of Girl Scout cookies that I saw the other day. So BS on the "not peddling Girl Scout cookies". If they want to push "rights", time to concern themselves with opposing the endless wars (will affect their lives sooner or later). Otherwise, match the brown berets with brown shirts.
John Howard says: There are 4 schools of economics:
Marxism: steal everything
Keynesianism: steal by counterfeiting whenever needed
Chicago school (Milton Friedman): steal by counterfeiting at a steady, predictable rate
Austrians: don't steal
Democrats don't mind war as long as they can have big government. Republicans don't mind big government as long as they can have war.
'Wiped off the Map' – The Rumor of the Century
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