A Project of YAOTL

Honey Well and EPA come to Little Village By: BB&J June 17, 2008

Our community organizers and residents gathered on June 16th to go protest for a clean park. unfortunately EPA”s representatives left from the gathering after all of us arrived. This was before we even finished what we had to say.They said they would take the petitions but they did not have time to talk. We still had the courage to keep protesting. We definitely got people’s attention, so they joined us on our journey to demand our right for a clean park. We are most definitely still working toward this theres no doubt. WE WANT A CLEAN PARK! We will be gathering again on June 25, 2008 come out and support us. For more information contact LVEJO.

Meyer Steel Drum Pt. 2 May 5, 2008

Community Views on Gangs

YAOTL to Present at Allied Media Conference and Cine Youth May 2, 2008

Marisol Becerra and Zane Scheuerlein have been invited to present their video, The Cloud Factory at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit. Several members of Young Activists Organizing as Today’s Leaders (YAOTL) will also attend the conference and present OurMap of Environmental Justice at a workshop for youth activists who will add to the map. Click below on Allied Media Conference link below to get more details!

The Cloud Factory and the MyMap of Environmental Justice will also be featured at the Chicago Cine Youth Festival.
DIGITAL INTERACTIVE ACTIVISM
Interactive Skill-Share
Open Youth Networks and YAOTL

Saturday June 21st, Chicago’s Columbia College Film Row

3:00-4:00 PM

Youth environmental activists from YAOTL and Open Youth Networks will demonstrate how they are using new digital media networks and DIY participatory culture tools (blogs, googlemaps and social networking) to build awareness. The youth will screen their video, THE CLOUD FACTORY, a video funded by Adobe Youth Voices and Listen Up as part of the international TV series BEYOND GREEN. They will also share their Environmental Justice multimedia map — an online community map that documents the assets and toxics of Little Village through youth-produced photos, videos and stories. The audience will then contribute their own digital content to the map as collaborators with quick demonstrations in Flickr, wordpress, googlemaps and who knows what else. This highly energized and hands-on skill share session shows how the model of commons-based peer production can infuse new possibilities into the field of youth media and organizing.

Meyer Steel Drum May 1, 2008

The Cloud Factory April 30, 2008

When eighteen year-old Marisol discovers that a coal power plant in her Chicago-based Latino neighborhood of Little Village may be the cause of her sister’s asthma, she becomes a youth activist fighting for cleaner air and alternative energy. But when she learns that the dirtiest polluting industries in America are predominantly located in low-income communities of color, her struggle to achieve a greener world involves another battle —one to expose environmental racism. In order to raise awareness about the damaging impact of the coal power plant in Little Village, Marisol organizes youth in Little Village to create a multimedia Google mapzine documenting the toxics and assets in her community. In doing so, she networks with others youth environmental activists from around the country who join in her effort to build a global online Map for Environmental Justice. A video by Marisol Becerra with Zane Scheuerlein

Crawford Coal Power Plant Video

A video in which random Little Village community members were interviewed about the Crawford Plant.