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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.14,0:00:01.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I am a youth advocate.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.75,0:00:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I am a mentor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.90,0:00:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I am an Oakland native.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.30,0:00:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm an attorney.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.45,0:00:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I am formerly incarcerated.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.57,0:00:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I am the father of\Ntwo wonderful children.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.82,0:00:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm a policy analyst.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.80,0:00:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I am an example of redemption.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.04,0:00:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm hoping for change.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.93,0:00:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm hoping that what I went through,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.65,0:00:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this generation won't go through.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.79,0:00:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(rhythmic drum music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.09,0:00:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Our mission is to advance justice
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.25,0:00:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by protecting the rights\Nof children and youth
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.64,0:00:34.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by improving the systems\Nthat impact their lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.61,0:00:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I was involved in a system,\Nthe youth prison system,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.61,0:00:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that at the time had 11,000 kids
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.07,0:00:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a system designed to hold\Nonly 6,000 young people.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.92,0:00:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But tremendous amounts of\Nviolence, abuse, and neglect
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.37,0:00:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the hands of the state and the guards.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.03,0:00:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It made me much worse having gone there
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.54,0:00:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than when I went in.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.86,0:00:58.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Being in that frame\Nof mind where you think
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.26,0:01:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you aren't worth anything,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.18,0:01:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you have no hope for the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.94,0:01:04.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a dark place to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.88,0:01:08.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just didn't value\Nmyself or my life at all
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.28,0:01:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'cause I thought that, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.70,0:01:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been told over and over\Nthat I wasn't going anywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.21,0:01:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A lot of kids these days,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.63,0:01:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they don't feel loved,\Nso they put up a front.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.62,0:01:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's why they get in trouble a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.27,0:01:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they want people to think\Nthat they're all big and bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.83,0:01:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But like once you really get to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.86,0:01:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, they're still\Nkids and they need love too.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.20,0:01:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- There's essentially an\Nabuse-to-prison pipeline
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.30,0:01:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we're criminalizing foster youth,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.48,0:01:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're criminalizing\Ngirls who've experienced
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.90,0:01:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sexual abuse and physical abuse.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.99,0:01:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we need to disrupt that pipeline
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.91,0:01:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do everything we can\Nto actually help people
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.17,0:01:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of just continually\Npushing them away into prisons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.16,0:01:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- People with imaginations
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.26,0:01:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ability to dream only goes so far.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.37,0:01:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we often say, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.84,0:01:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, we have to lock them up\Nbecause nothing else works."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.60,0:01:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the truth is we haven't\Ntried very many other things.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.51,0:02:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so unless we show and prove\Nthat these things can work,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.37,0:02:03.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people won't really take\Nthem as viable alternatives.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.57,0:02:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The California Youth Justice Initiative
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.64,0:02:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is really at the center of all
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.36,0:02:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the juvenile justice\Nreforms taking place right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.87,0:02:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- We are working on legislation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.13,0:02:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're working on a\Ncommunications campaign.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.50,0:02:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're working on research\Nand civic engagement
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.50,0:02:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and community capacity building
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.02,0:02:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to essentially change\Nconditions on the ground
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.48,0:02:30.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as policies\Ncoming from the capitol.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.58,0:02:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we never do that\Nwithout the participation
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.42,0:02:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leadership of directly\Nimpacted communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.22,0:02:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Through the work we do, policy work,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.40,0:02:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can impact thousands of kids at a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.82,0:02:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of thousands of youth at a time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.77,0:02:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- How healing it is to have\Nbeen disempowered for so long
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.50,0:02:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then to take your\Npower back and to speak
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.83,0:02:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from your own experience\Nabout what matters to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.30,0:02:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- When they know that I\Nshare those experiences
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.79,0:02:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of having an incarcerated parent,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.12,0:02:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being incarcerated myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.48,0:02:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it allows 'em to let their guard down
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.71,0:03:00.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it allows them to reach them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.69,0:03:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- My name's--\N- So we bring young people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.81,0:03:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up to the capitol, we give them space
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.73,0:03:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tell their stories to\Nlegislators and to staffers,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.37,0:03:11.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to testify at hearings, write\Nletters to the governor.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.58,0:03:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However they want to share their stories,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.77,0:03:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we give them the space to do so.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.25,0:03:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we educate them\Nabout the policy process
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.79,0:03:19.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here in California.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.32,0:03:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- We recognize that the policies
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.22,0:03:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we're putting into place,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.27,0:03:26.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the movements that we're trying to build,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.21,0:03:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the campaigns that we\Nare putting together,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.97,0:03:31.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people who are going\Nto be most impacted
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.22,0:03:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the people on the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.27,0:03:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's gonna be the communities,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.67,0:03:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's gonna be the families,\Nand it's gonna be the youth.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.17,0:03:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Our youth justice work is not just
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.95,0:03:40.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of our most important work,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.41,0:03:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a piece of the work that\Nwe've grown significantly
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.45,0:03:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the past three years\Nbecause of the momentum
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.77,0:03:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we've generated here in California
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.89,0:03:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the moment for change being right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.37,0:03:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- When you think about where
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.59,0:03:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is some of most progressive change
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.37,0:03:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regarding juvenile justice happening,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.63,0:03:59.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to look no\Nfurther than the Bay Area.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.95,0:04:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Kids today are so much more engaged.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.46,0:04:05.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are so much more\Ninformed about the issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.93,0:04:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kids are so much more tolerant
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.58,0:04:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than older generations have been.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.67,0:04:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like I really think that kids, that youth
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.61,0:04:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are really ready to take the\Nreins and fight for themselves
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.53,0:04:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ways that we haven't seen before.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.76,0:04:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- This movement inspires\Nme because it's my people.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.50,0:04:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's people from the streets
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.58,0:04:27.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or from the jail cells, things like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.53,0:04:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who turn their pain and experience
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.38,0:04:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into inspiration, into\Neducation, into power.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.33,0:04:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Frankie] Right now is the\Ntime to be really aggressive
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.66,0:04:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and aspirational about what we\Nexpect out of our government,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.07,0:04:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of our leaders, for our communities
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.53,0:04:42.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for our children and our future.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.97,0:04:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Man] We have to do more to acknowledge
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.55,0:04:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only the harm of incarceration,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.66,0:04:56.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the promise that\Nthe communities possess
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.67,0:04:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in being able to deal\Nwith our young people
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.42,0:05:00.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a much more responsible\Nand healthy fashion.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.81,0:05:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's what this\Nconversation here is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.34,0:05:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're talking about.