{"id":125,"date":"2020-08-04T06:09:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T06:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:35:01","slug":"issue-briefs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/issue-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"ISSUE BRIEFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-160\" src=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/issuebrieficon2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/issuebrieficon2.png 1500w, https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/issuebrieficon2-300x70.png 300w, https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/issuebrieficon2-1024x239.png 1024w, https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/issuebrieficon2-768x179.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>Our Issue Briefs<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As high school and college fellows, we have developed issue briefs across 3 sectors: <\/span><b>education, justice, and health<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Exploring structural racism within the Black community across these sectors, we also examined the recent impact of COVID-19, through existing data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0 <\/span><b>7 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0issue briefs were first available on <\/span><b>August 13, 2020<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at <\/span><b>12 PM<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the rally along with its own set of recommendations and demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/THE-GEM-PROJECT-AUGUST-2020-ISSUE-BRIEFS-STRUCTURAL-RACISM.pdf\" TARGET=\"BLANK\">\ud83d\udccc\u00a0 \u00a0FREE DOWNLOAD: THE GEM PROJECT AUGUST 2020 ISSUE BRIEFS &#8211; STRUCTURAL RACISM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please consider a donation to our organization, <a href=\"http:\/\/thegemproject.org\/donate\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/THE-GEM-PROJECT-AUGUST-2020-ISSUE-BRIEFS-STRUCTURAL-RACISM.pdf\" TARGET=\"BLANK\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-326\" src=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-02-at-1.41.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-02-at-1.41.22-PM.png 410w, https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-02-at-1.41.22-PM-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The issue briefs cover the following topics:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice &#8211; Wrongful Convictions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice &#8211; Police Brutality<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice &#8211; Poor Health Conditions (Prisons)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice &#8211; Mass Incarceration and Recidivism Rates<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education &#8211; Zero Tolerance Policies and Punitive Measures\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education &#8211; Access and Opportunity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Health &#8211;\u00a0 Black Maternal Health<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We encourage our friends, youth, schools, and communities to review the suggested reading recommendations and sources as it relates to <a href=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/suggested-readings-education\/\">education<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/suggested-readings-justice\/\">justice<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/suggested-readings-health\/\"> health<\/a> offered on <a href=\"http:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\">http:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This website will serve as a resource for the community and guide to have many thoughtful conversations surrounding structural racism and youth organizing today to push forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/virtual-museum-black-liberation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read about our art exhibit that will debut at the upcoming rally called,<\/span><b> \u201cReimagining Black Liberation through Afrofuturism\u201d <\/b>using a virtual reality interface<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Issue Briefs As high school and college fellows, we have developed issue briefs across 3 sectors: education, justice, and health. Exploring structural racism within the Black community across these sectors, we also examined the recent impact of COVID-19, through existing data. The\u00a0 7 \u00a0issue briefs were first available on August 13, 2020 at 12<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/issue-briefs\/\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegemproject.org\/rally2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}