Sistas and Brothas United (SBU), the youth organizing arm of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, a 46-year-old organization of students, parents, clergy and community members across the Bronx are organizing a rally to take action against school policing, and what the organization says are all the practices and policies that criminalize young people in schools.
For the last two decades SBU has been working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline, organizing to eradicate suspensions, arrests, metal detectors, and school safety agents in schools that the organization says pushes young people out of school and into the prison system.
Ahead of the start of the school year, SBU youth leaders will lead a rally on Saturday, Aug. 22 with parents, clergy and allies who share their police-free school demands to bring attention to the issue.
The group are meeting at the corner of Fordham Road and Washington Avenue in the Bronx at 11 a.m.