The Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP) is a youth-led organization building a movement to end the practice of trying youth as adults in PA.
Joined June 2011
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YASP retweeted
10 Dec 2024
We stand with the #CommutationNow campaign in calling on @JoshShapiroPA to get the PA Board of Pardons back on track! Shapiro promised to support second chances, but far fewer people have been commuted under his admin compared to Gov. Wolf.
Sign petition: commutationnow.com
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YASP retweeted
12 Dec 2024
A statement from Councilmember Rue Landau and Councilmember Jamie Gauthier.
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From all of us at YASP, THANK YOU so much to the folks who helped sustain our work through the last year.
Thanks to all of you, we are ready to close this year strong with a lot of exciting updates to share, and we're really looking forward to what is ahead in the year to come.
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Over the next two months as we work to raise $20,000 to support our goals for 2025, we want to invite you to get to know us and our work a little better.
Follow along here, or head to tinyurl.com/withYASPin25 to donate today 💜
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YASP retweeted
1 Feb 2024
Join us and @YASP2 on 2/7 for a conversation about building youth-led movements through art, organizing, and creating non-carceral responses to harm and violence. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/youth-partn…
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Check out our youth leaders with the @CareNotControl squad in Harrisburg today! #YouthPower #YouthLeaders #TreatKidsAsKids #FreeOurYouth
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Thank you @senbartolotta for calling for an end to prosecuting children as adults in PA at today's #PAYouthSafetyCaucus press conf, and highlighting that direct file is a "staggering waste of money and human resources". We must #TreatKidsAsKids in PA! #carenotcontrol
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Let this be the year we end direct file and finally #TreatKidsAsKids in PA! Thank you, @senbartolotta @SenTonyWilliams @SenatorHughes for your leadership in fighting for this critical, common sense change in Harrisburg! #CareNotControl #NoKidsInPrison
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This #GivingTuesday, we're launching an ambitious fundraising drive to help us sustain grow our groundbreaking #HealingFutures restorative justice work in 2023. Please take a minute to donate! bit.ly/YASP2023
YASP retweeted
22 Nov 2022
Don’t Let Them Fool You, It’s A Numbers Game
But I Am More Than A Number
You Are More Than A Number
We Are More Than A Number ✊🏾
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Thank you for your leadership on this, @senbartolotta! We know keeping children out of adult courts prisons makes all of our communities safer in the long run.
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Thank you to @WmBrangham of @NewsHour for highlighting this important issue and my legislative proposal which is intended to end the automatic charging of juveniles as adults in certain crimes. pbs.org/newshour/show/advoca…
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Thank you for the excellent coverage of the movement to end direct file in PA @NewsHour, and big appreciation to @senbartolotta for your leadership on this critical issue! #TreatKidsAsKids #NoKidsInPrison #PassSB1240 #CareNotControl
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Thanks for sharing @svdebug!
Powerful call by @DayOneNotDayTwo and David of @YASP2 family to end transfers of youth into the adult carceral system in Pennsylvania and everywhere!!!Feature on @PBS
m.youtube.com/watch?v=UIdLA0…
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YASP retweeted
23 Nov 2022
Excellent coverage of our work to end direct file of youth in adult court featuring @JuvLaw1975 @YASP2 @senbartolotta. #juvenilejustice #carenotcontrol
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Powerful coverage of our work to end direct file, keep young people out of adult courts and #TreatKidsAsKids in Pennsylvania, featuring YASP leaders David Andre, aka @DayOneNotDayTwo! @CareNotControl @JuvLaw1975 #YouthJustice #NoKidsinPrison #PassSB1240
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YASP retweeted
11 Oct 2022
#CareNotControl and @YASP2’s Andre Simms, aka @DayOneNotDayTwo, the Ascension Project will host ☮️Pushing Peace ☮️: A Showcase to Save the Streets this Friday, 10/14, at 7 p.m. at Sera Phi (939 N Front St) 📍
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YASP retweeted
13 Oct 2022
That’s the message that #CareNotControl and @YASP2’s Andre Simms, aka @DayOneNotDayTwo, says he hopes people take away from #Delirium, his song from #CareNotControlTheAlbum, which addresses the horrors of solitary confinement. The track comes out tomorrow!
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YASP retweeted
23 Aug 2022
Last Friday, #CareNotControl and @YASP2's Andre aka @DayOneNotDayTwo gave an incredible performance at @easternstate's Night Tours event! His songs and discussion in the @SeriousRapShit podcast shed light on his horrific experiences being incarcerated as a child.
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