Youth Organizing/Education
Articles from PIA's recent News and Views newsletters:
East Palo Alto Youth Plea for Safer Sidewalks
Palo Alto Daily, 7/10/08
City Tours Teen Centers
Mountain View Voice, 6/26/08
Youth Urge City to Build Teen Center
Valley Catholic, 6/24/08
Mountain View Teen Center
Mountain View Voice, 5/22/08
Heightened Call for a Teen Center
Mountain View Voice, 3/7/08
Measure C Committee in East Palo Alto
San Mateo County Times 2/21/08
Youth Services climbs Rec List
Mountain View Voice, 10/2/07
Piden un alto a las pandillas
El Mensajero, 5/29/07
Local teens want a center of their own
Mountain View Voice, 5/18/07
Residents seek gang solutions
Palo Alto Daily News, 5/13/07
Youth Programs-Crime Prevention
Palo Alto Daily News, 07/27/06
PIA has lobbied to have 70% of the revenues from a new property tax measure to be directed to youth crime prevention programs, with the remaining 30% going to the Police Department
Group backs tax aimed at aiding youth
Palo Alto Daily News, 07/26/06
The Measure could generate up to $1.7 million per year �You can see from tonight that people want more programs for the community�s youth,� said Carolina Cervantes, spokeswoman for Peninsula Interfaith Action.
Alarman Crimen y Violencia en East Palo Alto - Page 1
Alarman Crimen y Violencia en East Palo Alto - Page 2
El Mensajero, 07/09/2006
Isela Ramos de 18 anos, no puede disfrutar de las actividades normales de una chica de su edad.
Church Rally Draws Hundreds
San Mateo County Times, 06/30/2006
Community and religious leaders converge to call on the city of East Palo Alto to place a parcel-tax measure on the November ballot.
Hundreds rally in East P.A. to put anti-crime parcel tax on ballot
San Jose Mercury News, 06/30/2006
Community and religious leaders converged to call on the city to place a parcel-tax measure on the November ballot.
'All the killings...we're going to stop'
San Mateo County Times, 06/06/2006
Community Activism through religion: Nonprofit spurs residents to support ballot measure in East Palo Alto to fund violence prevention programs.
Slater School to close in June 2006, Board ditches proposal to close Castro
Mountain View Voice, 3-23-05
PIA helps Spanish-speaking parents speak out and save Castro Elementary School, which is located in their heavily immigrant neighborhood.
Mtn. View district to shut Slater School (Castro School saved)
San Jose Mercury News, 3-23-05
With PIA support, Spanish-speaking parents are successful in convincing the school district not to close their neighborhood school.
Speakers object to school closing; 200 jam auditorium
San Jose Mercury News, 3-11-05
With PIA support, immigrant families speak out to school board about their need and desire to keep local school open. | 
