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A Teen Newspaper Written by Teens for Teens about Teen Issues!
Sponsored by Institute of Woman and Ethnic Studies and Students at the Center
(With financial assistance form the Community Volunteer Association and the Brown Foundation)
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1 January/February 2000 EDITION

Community Collaborations

Students Get Trashed on Saturdays

Frederick A. Douglass Senior High Students continue leading a neighborhood clean-up drive the last Saturday of every month from 9:30 to 11:30. The students clean around the school and along the St. Claude Ave. neutral ground from Poland to Franklin Ave.

PJ's Frenchmen sponsors the activity along with the Fred Hampton Youth Action Committee. Our Voice encourages all schools to partner with community groups on similar monthly projects. Plan academic projects (essays, articles, art work, studies of types of trash people leave, oral histories of a block) related to this neighborhood work.

Douglass SAC students have developed a pledge that they distribute to all schoolmates who join them in this urban environmentalism project. People who take the pledge wear a green ribbon and age to these three steps:

1. Not to drop any trash

2. To pick up at least two pieces of trash that some one else dropped each day.

3. To participate in a neighborhood clean-up activity once a month.