Help Youth Empowered in the Struggle Fund Mural on the Racine Labor Center

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Help us paint pro public education mural on the Racine Labor Center

We’re excited to have gotten permission to paint a mural on the Racine Labor Center. It’s an important place for our movement. We really like the labor center because it gives Youth Empowered in the Struggle a place to meet, organize, and have fun. It’s time to breathe some creative energy into the place by painting a large pro public education mural on a wall facing the street. The image is a heart with a Janes Elementary on the top, a Public School on Main Street in Racine. The image is surrounded by the text ‘Public School is the Heart of Our Community.”

Youth Empowered in the Struggle is a High School and Middle School based organization dedicated to fighting for immigrant, student, and worker power in Racine, Milwaukee, and now Sheboygan. The organization blossomed in Racine with the help of dedicated Educators at Horlick High, right up the road from the Labor Center. Youth Empowered in the Struggle has organized student-led campaigns for a Student Bill of Rights and to make schools a safe zone for immigrant and refugee students.

Art is an important part of the movement. Youth Empowered in the Struggle students have recently been printing a lot of t shirts and posters as well as painting large banners for their actions. But sometimes teachers end up paying for supplies out of our own pockets, that’s why we are asking for help to fund this mural. We will use the money for tools to prep the wall, brushes, drop cloths, and high quality paint. The left over funds will be used to keep a stock of cloth for banners, paint, gesso, brushes, markers, screens, screen printing ink, and union made blank t shirts so we can keep making art for the movement. Art is an important tool for organizers to spread our ideas and creatively convey our messages. Help us inspire workers and students to action and shape the future of our public schools and communities.