"run The World" Maira

Today I watched a video by a youtube site called ninteenpercent it was about beyonce's new song "Run The World". I think the woman's name was Amanda basically she was just talking about how the video does not mean anything because "Woman Don't Run The World".If woman ran the world they wouldn't get disrespected in movies video's and in business. Some facts that she made where the fact that men make more money then woman.
IN domestice violence relationships 90% of the abused party are women, and don't even get me started on how the media & hip hop portray women on the daily.

This video made,145,000 hits in 4 days ... I believe that people see this video because they like what she has to say. I believe that woman could do anything they put there minds too. They just have to fine there inner power.

beyonce-RUN THE WORLD girls=lies

today i watch a video by a young lady name amanda , she talked about "Beyonce" new video "Run the world girls" she disagreed with the video as much as i did i feel that she shouldnt never made the video because women are down graded in our soicety everyday , and for her to make a video like that isnt right i think she should of made a video to help support us young ladys to stop being disrespect By beinG Called "Bitches" and "Hoes" rather than incourging it because its bad enough men are doing it i just hope in the future people will wake up and feel our pain -THANK YOU =)

RUN THE WORLD GURLS- E'shh

SO WE WATCH A VIDEO ON YOUTUBE BY A LADY NAMED AMANDA. HER CHANNEL IS CALLED NINETEEN PERCENT AND IT'S BASED ON BEYONCE'S NEW HIT SINGLE "RUN THE WORLD GURLS" AND THIS VIDEO HAS 145,000 HITS AND HAS ONLY BEEN OUT FOR 4 DAYS. WOW! THE POINT OF THIS VIDEO IS TO MAKE WOMEN AND YOUNG GURLS DO SOME CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT THE WORDS BEHIND THE SONG. SHE STATED THAT 90% OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS BASED ON MALE TO FEMALE VIOLENCE. A MALE GETS PAID 67% MORE ON A DOLLER THAN A FEMALES PAYCHECK. BEYONCE VERSE "DISRESPECT US NO THEY WONT" BUT DR. DRE VERSE "BITCHES AINT NOTHING BUT HOES AND TRICKS" ?? HOW ABOUT JAY-Z (her own husband) " I GOT 99 PROBLEMS BUT A BITCH AINT ONE" .. CLEARLY GURLS AINT RUNING THE RELATIONSHIP, JOBS, NOT EVEN IN THERE OWN HOUSE LET ALONE DO WE RUN THE WORLD. THE MEDIA PUTS US WOMEN OUT AS SEX SYMBOLS AND SOCIETY HAS EVERYONES MIND CAPTIVATED THINKIN MEN STILL DOMINATE OVER WOMEN. WE AS YOUNG LADIES AND WOMEN DONT GET THE CREDIT WE DESERVE. FACE IT WE STAND BEHIND THE MALE FIGURE. SOO THIS ACTUALLY GIVES ALL OF US GURLS AND YOUNG WOMEN ALOT TO THINK ABOUT..... ----------> .. e'shh <3

Beyonce-Dominique M

Today we watched a you-tube video about a lady that re-made beyonce's Music video "Girl Runs the World" talking about how beyonce is putting the wrong message out there to other women. Her point was basically that women are not running the world, they are gettin disrespected by men everyday. Statistics show that men get paid 67% more on the dollar then women. How in the South there was a law passed for 'COCK fights" but the law for domestic violence didnt get passed. The youtube video had more the 145,000 views and its been up for only four days. it shows how interesting that the video is & how she telking it how it is, keeping realistic. so many people viewed it because its talking beyonce And people want to know why she would talk bad about beyonce!

LIL' B

Today we watched a video about lil b.It was done by a women named Jazmyne and she recieved 660 views in 3 weeks. It was very shocking to me especially the part where he said''F nikki minaj im the baddest b*#%h. Anyway, so while performing at Coachella in indigo,california lil b quoted ''Im ngoing to do the most controversial thing in hip-hop'','' Im going to show y'all that words dont mean sh*t. I'm going to make an album called ''Im Gay''. This really shocked me when i seen this video. But the reason for him doing this is to get publicity to get famous. And it actually worked. My personal opinion i think he's gay on the under.

Sade'

Lil B Doc.-Damena

The point of this documentry was to show that rappers can get money from saying anything. Soceity has taught us that not putting your true talent and effort into what you really want to acheive you can take tha easy way out and start a new dumb saying; such as Nicki Minaj saying she's barbie and creating the cooking dance from Lil B! I agreed with the way she tried to say that Lil B was promoting himself by saying he was gay because that is what most artists do now a days; like Rebecca Black singing about Friday and the Chicken Noodle Soup song. The video has 660 views and its been up about 3weeks. I did not agree on anything because soceity teaches us to do crazy things in order to get money fast! Some things that he said to get attention was "If he didn't get on a track with Kanya West, then he would fuck him in the ass," and "If he did not sell out of albums, he would fuck his own mom!" Doing crazy things like this got him attention and publicity from record labels, different artists, and the media in general.

Damena, 17

LiL B based on a tru story :

So my take on this documentary is that the media will talk about anything . You don't even need talent anymore hip hop is being taken over by catchy phrases and silly lyrics.Lil b is just one example on how the media and how easily people are influenced with nonsense.basically the overall point was to show that all you need is a good beat a catchy phrase and you might get lucky, if you market and promote your self in the right way .my feeling is that we as a hip hop nation have lost the sense of real good music "REAL HIP HOP" and now we just have the silly garbage just because its there. this is not hip hop . I think maybe his ideal so naming his album I'm gay and backing the lesbian and gay community , is in essence a good thing just to show support and change the label that you have to be a gangster rapper to become to be famous .Its the way that he's going about it that is redundant .For example looks at nicki minaji , solier boy, and the new boys , with that said all its really doing is inviting more people to create phoney music to make poblisity for them self . And who whats to keep hearing this. This vlog was created by Jazymne three weeks ago and now has a total of 6,000 views. I think it means that people are interested in hearing opposite perspectives.

PLEASE BRING REAL HIP HOP BACK

Young families events and mother's day

The event was a amizing expriences for me. Being in a event like this made me very happy because I felt that i was making a differnces for people. I loved seeing people with there family's having a good time .I do believe that the more events we make for our community we will get in the hearts of more people.This YFP event proves there are people that do care.

Mother's day was amizing to me . I speed time with my family and friend . being around the people that love me and support me was wonderful . Going with my baby girl was so much fun because this is something new to me this experinces was one of my best moments in life .. So to all da mom's out there Happy Mother's and wish you the best in life.

Mothers' day event

My name is Alexis & I helped promote/run the Mother's/Father's Day event. I was very happy with the outcome. There were a lot of kids with happy face-painted smiles. I was helping run the jumpers. There was a big flow of kids & then a race. I participated and had FUN.

For Mother's Day I took my mom out to eat. She wanted Pupusas. Then afterward we went to her mother's house And ate MORE. Mother's day was kicked back. Nothing special, nothing boring.

Mother's Day Celebration-SADE' 20
The mothers day event that the sister's rising girls did outreach for turned out to be a good event. We did a sample of our play based on sisterhood and i thought i was going to be nervous but it turned out better than i thought. It was less people than i thought it was but it was still cool. I invited my mom,sister,brother,niece,nephew,and last but never the least my son was there. The kids enjoyed the jumpers and the face painting and t-shirt drawings.That was cute how the sapphire girls where doing the kids activities my family was telling me that they really enjoyed the celebration for mothers as well as fathers,aunties,uncles. At closing their was a little girl on stage singin ''pretty boy swag'' i thought that was cute, then my little niece was like: ''auntie i want to say something'', so she got up on stage and started singin '' i whip my hair back and forth,i whip my hair back an forth'', i thought that was the cutest thing of the day the all the kids started dancing. Overall the event was great.

Young Families Day Celebration

The Young Families Day Celebration was surely a windy success . i had a great time supervising the obstacle court . My little brother also attented the celebration with me and he enjoyed himself so much he said he loved all the activities and also was able to make a card for his mom and dad .The wind was out a little bit but it couldn't stop our celebration. it was nice to see some young familes come out to celebrate the love of family and honoring all mothers i hope all mothers enjoyed themselves and felt the love of The Center for Young Women's Development .

The Mother's DAy Celebration-Dominique 20

Mothers day celebration was an event held for young families that need support in parenting or need resources for employement and education. Sister's rising helped coordinate and event & acted out our theatre piece about "Sisterhood". It was a very succesfull event , many people showed up & alot of single families were there too. there was arts & crafts for kids, three jumpers that my niece & nephew enjoyed. it was so nice seeing kids gettin on stage dancing to all the songs.

On that sunday My granny went to church before i even woke up , but when she came back i had cleaned the house & had her flowers & a card waiting for her in her room. Mother's day was different for me this year because i actually got to take my mom & granny out with my own money and treat them to whatever they wanted.

Dominique Moss
20

MOTHERS DAY

SOOO.. ITS MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATION TURNED OUT TO BE ALOT BETTER THAN I THOUGHT. THE DAY WAS KINDA WINDY BUT WE DIDNT LET THAT GET IN OUR WAY. AS THE DAY WENT ABOUT MORE FAMILIES WERE SHOWIN UP. WE PRACTICED OUR PLAY AND IT WASNT SO BAD AS MANY OF US THOUGHT IT WAS. ANY WAY, MY SISTERS SHOWED UP WITH MA NIECES AND CUZZIN AND I WAS GLAD TO HAVE THEM THERE FOR SUPPORT AND ALSO TO SHARE THIS EXPERIENCE WITH. I WANTED FOR MY MOTHER TO BE THERE BEING THAT IT WAS ALSO HER BIRTHDAY BUT SHE HAD OTHER PLANS SO I GUESS IT WAS OK. I WROTE A MOTHERS DAY POEM AND WILLING SHARED MY WORK AT THE MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATION FOR SPOKEN WORD. I STARTED OUT WITH A MOTHERS DAY PRAYER. I WAS ALSO GLAD I HAD ONE OF MY SISTERS FRM SISTERS RISING COME UP ON THE STAGE WITH ME FOR SUPPORT BECAUSE I WAS KINDA SHY IN READING INFORNT OF SOO MANY PEOPLE. IT WENT BETTER THAN I ASSUMED IT WAS. I HAD SUPPORT FROM ALL THE STAFF AND OTHER SISTERS RISING INTERNS SO IT MADE ME THAT MUCH MORE MOTIVATED TO BREAK MY FEAR IN PUBLIC SPEAKING. I ENJOYED BEING AROUND ALL THESE MOTHERS EVEN THOUGH MINES WASNT THERE BECAUSE I STILL FELT AS IF SHE WAS THERE PERSONALLY BY THE ENERGY FROM ALL THE OTHER YOUNG MOTHERS. AFTER THE CELEBRATION I WENT TO MY MOMS HOUSE AND RELAXED TO GET OUT THE SUN. (I GOTTS SUN BURN TOO HEHE) LATER ON THAT NIGHT ME AND MY FAMILY WENT OUT TO BUCCA FOR DINNER. I HAD FUN. THE WAITER WAS POLITE AND FUNNY. FOR A MOMENT I LOOKED AROUND THE TABLE AT SOO MANY SMILES AND THOUGHT TO MASELF. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME THAT IVE SEEN MY FAMILY THIS HAPPY ON MOTHERS DAY. I HOPE MY MOM FELT APPRICIATED FOR ALL THAT SHE HAS DONE FOR THE FAMILY. SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY ALL 5 OF HER KIDS AND ALL HER GRANDCHILDREN. WE ATE AND JOKED AROUND ALL NIGHT. I WAS GLAD FOR THIS MOMENT NO FIGHTS NO ARGUEMENTS JUS LAUGHS AND SMILES. ILL ALWAYS APPRICIATE THIS MOMENT FOR WHAT IT TRUELY WAS.. PURE LOVE & HAPPINESS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE ON MOTHERS DAY!! ----- sigin out ------ ESHH <3

Young Families Day Event!

My Experience @Our young families day event was better then i thought it would be. A lot of people showed up the children had a lot of fun the performances and activities for families to enjoy with there little ones were nice the food was good and it was enough for everyone who showed up. We had little down falls such as the weather and little malfunction but all around the event was good!




-T.K

Mother's Day Celebration-Damena 16

The Mother's Day Celebration turned out good. There were a lot of resources for different types of people. We had shirts for the children to draw on about what they love about their family and jumpers for them to play in. We had many skits reflecting relatable issues such as sisterhood and young mother's who aren't educated about their rights when pregnant! It turned out great because we got it all together as a group and worked hard to put on a excellent event. I though a lot of people were going to come, but it was a good amount to support our program. The food was of course delicious but everything was blowing everywhere.

On Mother's Day, I woke up and gave my mom the present I bought her. It was a Besty Johnson purse and she loved it because it was pink and black! Then around three o'clock me and my family started to get ready and go out to eat. We went to eat at Benihana's in Japan Town. We met my older sister there with her husband. I ordered the Falemon Steak Trio and we took lots of pictures. It was fun because it was the first time I actually kicked back with my family without my friend.

WHAT IS A STRONG FAMILY

IN SOLIDARITY & CELEBRATION OF MOTHERS DAY!

http://youtu.be/ZjL-TWMyw30

A music video celebrating all young moms to honor their struggle, love, and commitment to building. Created through a multicultural collaboration of Communities ..

OWWLS OUTREACH

I like the outreach because im helping all of these women to change there lives or at least be safe on the streets. I dislike the time we picked to do outreach because their wasnt anyone to do outreach to. I expected to find young women to help and let them know theres people here to help them and got disappointed. -Maira 20

owwls

owwls for me was a great experience.. OwWLS stands for Outreach to Women Working and Living in the Streets.. what ii liked about it was that we got to get out of the office and actually got to do outreach hands on .. we spoke to the youth and those who seem to appear workin in the street about our program. We also gave out resources, condoms, and hygein to those in the streets. me and my sisters and cywd also had declerations of our own that we shared with the public.. the down fall about it was that we were out there too early being that our target was to those women workin and livin in the street not many were out at that time of day so it made it a little difficult to outreach to them.. over all the experience was great!!!! never done anything like it and i look foward into doing it again.. -------> e'shh

Owwls Out Reach.

I liked getting out of the office I liked having a big crowd interested in what we were offering I felt like were very organized

experience @ the owls OutreaCh

• I Liked how the street teaminG came along, every one of the girls from the center did a great job.

• An what i disliked the most about this outreach is there wasnt as much niGht workers in the day so we did not pass out as many kits.

• Nexttime we need to go at night so we can actually see some night workers.

owwls

owwls means outreach to woman working and liveing on the streets this is an outreach program spacificly for woman this program was started by our program director here at the center for young womans development i feel this is a good program,i feel this outreach program will be very succsessful so far we outreach once in the mission distrect. -jessie

OWWLS OUTREACH

My experience in the mission doing outreach was a half and half experience only because i expected it to be more but for what it was i cant wait to do it again hopefully next time we get to do more outreach and i pray there actually woman out there to do outreach to. - TK 19

OWWLS (OUTREACH TO WOMEN WORKING AND LIVING IN THE STREETS

My experience outreaching to the community were sex work is really going on was a great thing for me it makes me feel as if im being apart of the work that greatly needs to be done. Walking the steets trying to outreach to young women is a beautiful thing and me being young myself and think that they'd be better able to connect with me . I love to be apart of helping the community and hopefully on our next outreach day were able to see some young women that need our resourses and connections . KJB

OWLS Outreach

OWLS is a organization that helps prositutes practice safe sex and try and get them off the streets. We did outreach targeting protitutes in the mission area. My experience during outreach was good because I got to spend a little time with my sisters. I enjoyed being outside also. There wasn't much prostitutes on the streets but I did have the opportunity to hand out condoms and other information about CYWD. Improvments will be more organization and a area where theres more action as far as seeing more pimps, prositutes, tricks, etc. -Damena,16

Owwls(Outreach to Women Working and Living in the Streets)

Owwls is a new outreach group that our director @ the Center for Young Womens Development came up with. The purpose of the outreach program OWWLS is for the girls in the sister's rising program to go out to high risk area's in san francisco and hand out hygiene bag's to street worker's from the age of 13-24.We also outreach to them and let them know about our program and the services we offer to them.Our first outreach group for the owwls program started two thursdays ago and we started in the mission district we didnt really see that many street workers probably due to the day light.Every thursday where going to be going out to different area's in the city and hopefully we accomplish what were going out there for........................ sade'.......sisters rising intern

Owwls Out Reach.

Owwls... Out Reach for Women Working & Living on the Streets. While working on this program, I was happy to see neded materials going to ones who may need it ( Soaps, Lotions, Dentail Dams, Condoms, Lube, Toothbrush/Toothpaste, Nail-filers with Clinic information on it, Candy & information on the Center Shall they ever need it.) Our goal is to target Women but is not limited to helping men if they may also need a few resources. We DO NOT harrass these women, we serve them !

owwls outreach (outreach to woman working and living in the streets)

owwls is an outreach program started by our program director @ cywd i feel lyk it is a good program for woman living an working in the streets we provide higyne supplys

when was the last time you applied for a job and got it?

the last time i applied for a job and got it was @ girlsource inc ! in 2007. The reason why it took so long to get a job from then an now was because i was pregnant in group home so when i was finally able to start searching again it took along time now im at CYWD and its a great start for my future...........sf415

I enjoyed the know justice conference alot I like that there was performances and I appreciated those who spoke on the panel explaining their situations behind justice and knowing their rights.
JH

Finding A Summer Job

My last summer job was A "Youth Administraive Assistant" for the Bayview Opera House summer program. I did general Office work and i also help assist my supervisor with the youth and there art and performances.

I go about finding jobs through job search on foot and on the internet. I apply at employment programs and get help from employment specialist. I also get resourses from my case manager and also from staff memebers at larkin street youth services

2 questions

My last summer job was working at Girlsource. I found it from researching youth jobs in San Francisco on Google. I worked there the summer of 2010. The one thing i liked about the job was that the staff was friendly, helpful, and supportive!

I look for jobs by walking the mall and being out in general. Also by using the CYWD job board and hearing from friends and family.

Damena

finding a summer job

I walked in to T.J maxx clothing store and applied on the spot, turned in my application the same day and the next week i was called for a interview. I think its easy to look for a job all you have to do is just walk in and ask is the company hiring keep yourself motivated, but i think the reason they dont give young people a chance these days because of sterotype, compatition with older peole because the economy is bad also bad backgrounds. i have applied for several jobs in the pass and did not get no response back thats why its good to check in with company that you have applied for =]

kcj7

The know justice confrence was koo. I liked the know justice workshop it was lit in that thang...Good Job Jasmine.... I didnt like that we didnt have any security to watch our belongimgs. I didnt like that my property got got stolen out of my purse...Im glad that we had enough food for everyone. Everyone that i talked to about the confrence said they enjoyed it. Im glad it turned out good..... anyway deuces until next time

Summer Job Hunting

My plans for finding a summer consist of walking! LOTS AND LOTS of walking.. I'll most likely begin my search online, but afterwards it's off to some good old fashion foot work.

The Know Justice conference was so much fun. holding a workshop talking to kids was very inspiring. i like the entertainment that we haD IT made people come outthey shell & start dancing.even though, it waas very chaotic it was a very smoth conference. the kids that attended were all all from different areas of the bayarea & it was nice seeing all kids from evrywhere gettin along with eachother. overall the conference was a success & i give all my sistas props for putting together a very strong conference!!

-d.moss 20

KJC11

I FEEL OVERALL THE KNOW JUSTICE CONFRENCE WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING FOR ALL SUCH A DEVERSE GROUP OF YOUNG FOLKS TO COME TOGETHER TO LEARN THIER RIGHS IN KEEP THE SPACE POSITIVE AT THE SAME TIME . MOSTLY EVERYTHING WENT SMOOTH , WE TURNED OUT AT LEAST 250 YOUTH FROM ALL OVER THE BAY , I BELIEVE EVERYONE TOOK SOMETHING FROM COMING DOWN THE ONLY PROMBLEM WAS WE SHOULD HAVE IT AT A SPACE A LITTLE MORE FRIENDLY TO TEENS WE CAN BE A BIIT NOISY (FOR A LIBRARY ) AND SOME YOUTH LEFT THEIR TRASH BEHIND OTTHERWISE IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL THING ......
KJB

Know Justice Conference

I enjoyed the conference a lot.. It was VERY informing & helpful... I Liked that there was LOTS of youth, community based organizations & SF citizens.. I LOVED how the youth were involved in the workshops & were seeking information.. I didn't like that the workshops short & that there was only a limit of two per person.. I think we should have got information from four.. I also didn't like how messy it was afterwards.. I would have liked other people to voulenteer, help or clean up after themselves... Otherwise.. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!!

My Goods and things that need improvment at the "know justice conference"

GOOD: I LikEd that it was very positive no BEEF oR prObLems, thE entertainment was great over all everything was cool =]


THINGS THAT NEEDED IMPROVEMENT: The food arrangment's was not on point everything should have been prepared before lunch. also they should have made sure people did not bring food into the auditorium because there was a lot of trash that had to be picked up after =[

The Good, The Bad, And The Conference

At this year’s annual Know Justice Conference presented by the Center for Young Women’s Development there was A LOT going on; mostly good, but some bad. There was a great turn-out, a lot of diverse groups of people from many different walks of life, culture, and backgrounds. There were great workshops, (gang injunction, immigration, young mother bill of rights, know justice, and foster care)all the partner organizations like United Playaz & Bikes for life had great information, and the youth were definitely informed on there rights. With so many people coming together something bad is bound to happen, and yet the worst was not the worst! OK, OK yes, of course there were some minor miss-haps, say a little drama, a broken table, some bad performances, some security issues, timing was off a bit, and A LOT of boxes to be broken down, but over all the conference was good. I enjoyed working the it, even though the conference its self was long and I was the go to girl for errands lol, it was good and I'm v e r y glad that I was able to be apart of it.

Know Justice Confrence

SECURITY- I THINK WE COULD HAVE HAD A LITTLE MORE SECURTY AT THE CONFRENCE JUST TO SECURE AREA'S AND HELP KEEP THINGS MORE ORGANIZED AS FAR AS THOSE WHO ATTENDED GO. hELP FROM SECURITY WOULD HAVE MADE IT ALOT EASIER FOR STAFF TO MAINTAIN STATIONS HELP KEEP IT LESS CHAOTIC.
WORKSHOPS- MY WORKSHOP WAS FUNN!!!! ALOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN OUR WORKSHOP LIKE IT! THE SINERIO OF OUR GAME THAT WE PLAYED SEEMED REAL TO THEM AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANTED.. FOR THEM TO EXPERIENCE GOING TROUGH THE SYSTEM IN A REALISTIC MANNER BUT THEY ALSO GOT TO ENJOY THEMSELVES AND HAVE FUNN WITH IT AS WELL. THEY GOT ALOT OF INFORMATION HANDBOOKS AND RESOURCES ON HOW TO GO ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS IF THEY EVER GO THROUGH THE SYSTEM.WE HAD A FULL WORKSHOP SO IT WAS REAL BUSY BUT IT WENT REAL SMOOTH..I HAD FUN... --> E'Shh.