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ODB (Organize Da Bay) is a coalition made up of different Bay Area youth based organizations working for social justice. The purpose of the coalition is to build a youth organizing network for justice in education. Our vision is to build a student power movement in the Bay Area and operate as a united front against current attacks on youth. www.organizedabay.orgODB Purpose: To build a youth organizing network for justice in educationODB Vision: To build a STUDENT POWER movement in the Bay Area and operate as a united front against current attacks on youthCurrent Campaign: Student Power What does Student Power Mean?STUDENT POWER is about having control over our own education. Nobody knows what we need better than our selves it is time that they ask us what we need and take our words seriously. Test, laws, and policies that directly affect students are being implemented but students are jet to have any place where they can really express how they feel about all of this and a place where they have real power over these decisions. Student Power is about getting students united to create systems where they can talk about these issues and where they have real power over their own education. Students dont have any input on what they learn, how they lean it, or who their teachers are. We are not learning our hxstory, we are not being empowered through this education and the majority of our teachers are not teachers who look like us and understand our experience. Student Power is about having students decide what they learn about, how they learn it and who they learn it from. We need to create spaces where students can develop organizing skills so that we can work together and be the leaders for our own education. We want to have spaces where we can voice our needs, where we can include our parents and other community members. We dont want people that arent from our community and never have been to our schools to decide whats best for us.