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The 2024 Northern California Youth Racial and Economic Justice Summit brought together 200 participants across 35+ student associations and a statewide coalition of 60+ youth-serving grassroots, social justice, advocacy, civic engagement, health, arts, and education organizations in a united mission for youth equity, solidarity, and liberation. Led by The Reclamation Project @ 916 in partnership with the Sacramento County Youth Commission, local movement leaders, and various social change entities throughout the state, the Northern California Youth Racial and Economic Justice Summit is an annual, youth-centered conference advocating for liberating, anti-carceral, anti-oppression, youth-serving approaches to public policy, education, grassroots services, community organizing and activism, cultural programs, and more, while amplifying marginalized youth voices and lived experiences. Attendees enjoyed catered meals, passionate keynote speaking segments and panels, youth work-groups tackling community issues, a versatile community resource fair, the grand launch of the Sacramento County Youth Bill of Rights, meet-and-greets with public leaders, and so much more. The Northern California Youth Racial and Economic Justice Summit is the first 100% youth-run social justice conference serving across Sacramento County. Learn about this event here!
february 25, 2024
At the annual Martin Luther King Jr. March drawing tens of thousands of people across northern California each year, The Reclamation Project @ 916’s youth partnered with Answer Sacramento, Youth 4 Palestine Sac, Sac Stands With Palestine, Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestine, and Sacramento PSL, assembling to amplify MLK Jr’s radical legacy against militarism, imperialism, white supremacy, and empire. With chants, rallying with signs, on community drums, children, families, and people of all ages showed out to demand ceasefire, a permanent halt to U.S. military aid for Israel, and an end to occupation, apartheid, and colonization for Palestine. Liberate all oppressed lands and peoples!
january 15, 2024
Moment of a Movement: A Night for the People was our end-of-year gala of 2023. With live song, dance, and spoken-word poetry performances, delicious catered dinner and dessert, a glimpse into our organization’s impact, liberation-vision-building into 2024, a grand launch of our latest print magazines issue, gifts, music, atmosphere, and so much more, this gala brought together youth, organizers, and guests across our numerous partner organizations for a night of joy and unity. Guests were treated with free copies of our print magazines and great local Southern Cajun, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and more cuisines, along with a selection of baked goods. While recognizing the efforts upon efforts ahead, we celebrate our shared strides together and emphasize, once again, that revolutionary optimism and community keeps our work strong. The Reclamation Project @ 916 thanks everyone for making this year so special, and for allowing us to bear our torch for a better world.
december 15, 2023
Our November 2023 Community Sandwich & Snack Pack Making yielded over twelve hundred food packages. What a fabulous way to end off the Community Food Justice Initiative for this year! Special thanks to TAG’s Community Table and all the Sacramento mutual aid groups that helped us distribute over two thousand meals to unhoused encampments, pantries, and free fridges throughout the entire city.
november 22, 2023
Abolition 101, hosted alongside Decarcerate Sacramento, was an interactive and transformative policy advocacy workshop, focusing on abolitionist history and anti-carceral community care. Exploring the origins and modern-day imperative of prison abolition, especially amidst the rise in state-manufactured violence against people of color, unhoused folks, tenants, the poor and working-class, and numerous other marginalized groups within Sacramento County and beyond, we gathered the community to voice their most pressing needs for genuinely life-affirming services and institutions. Lively discussion, food, gifts, zines, political education, art, & social justice organizing concepts practiced through collective learning activities generated some of the most beautiful moments, reenergizing our forthcoming goals for people-serving policy. Thank you to Decarcerate Sacramento for allowing us to bear the torch at the forefront of Abolition 101!
september 30, 2023
Supplies for Solidarity is our largest, community-wide, back-to-school resource distribution, providing free school supplies, classroom materials, and other essential needs to Sacramento area’s marginalized & under-served students, teachers, & families. Built on the framework of grassroots mutual aid, Supplies for Solidarity aims to mitigate the insufficient access to educational resources of BIPOC low-income communities and under-funded schools, especially for youth of color and working-class folks. Our goal is to deliver liberating education by bridging the disparities created by systemic oppression. This year, we offered two distribution sites, one in South Sacramento and one in the inner city, each delivering a vast inventory of items to 175+ student families, marking 250+ total served by this inititiative. After all these months of strategizing, outreach, organizing, and crowdfunding, seeing BIPOC youth and folks obtain the resources they deserve was absolutely worth it. Thank you so much to all of our partner organizations for making this possible! This absolutely beautiful weekended reaffirmed, once more, the power of the people. Proud for this mutual aid initiative to be 100% youth-run, now and always.
september 2-3, 2023
