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Farm Workers Speak Out This Spring
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Another Farmer Calls for Justice
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Vassar Interns on Alternative Spring Break
with Katia Chapman, RMM Youth Empowerment Assistant Coordinator and Intern Coordinator
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Brooklyn Food Connections
newsletter's featured article: "Labor Activists, Community Members, and Ethical Eaters: Join the Justice for Farmworkers Campaign" Click here for article.
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Youth Economic Group in the news
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Dairy Farmer calls for equal rights for farmworkers
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Leadership Academy

The Leadership Academy is a summer-long program jointly sponsored between RMM and the Youth Arts Group. The Academy offers a series of workshops focusing on issues raised by high school aged students in our region. Workshops in recent years have focused upon such topics as:

  • Preparing for the College application process
  •  Financial literacy
  •  Art for Change
  •  Gender violence

Events held in July 2010

  • Thur, 7/15 Tools for Exploring the World: A Research Journey, Poughkeepsie
  • Sat, 7/17 Movie Night, Middletown
  • Sat, 7/24 Oral History and Photojournalism, Monticello
  • Wed, 7/28 Creating Art for Social Justice, Middletown

Click for flyer describing last July's events.

Events held in August 2010

  • Fri, 8/6 Living with Gang Violence, Middletown
  • Tues, 8/10 Financial Literacy, Middletown
  • Fri, 8/13 Undoing Adultism, Middletown
  • Wed, 8/18 Preparing the College Application Essay, Poughkeepsie

Click for flyer describing last August's events