FINAL 24 hours to submit your Workshops and Tabling requests for The 2026 PEACE & JUSTICE YOUTH CONFERENCE !!!!
Submit Workshops: https://bit.ly/pandj26-workshops
Submit Tabling: https://bit.ly/pandj26-tabling
SAVE THE DATE: https://bit.ly/peaceandjustice2026
Friday updates!
WE Call everyone to VETO Intros. 001-B and 175-B! which would allow the NYPD to decide when and how students speak out for democracy in their schools!
Join us today at 12PM noon at City Hall Park and help us chant!!
Friday updates from us!
Organization Highlight: The Circle Keepers And Vibe Theater Experience At Face2Face Conference!
Program Highlight: Spring Break!
Free Resource: The Sherrification Of Education
Funding Ask: Help Us Raise $10,000 Toward Our 2026 Peace & Justice Conference!
Friday updates from us!
We taught workshops at DesignWorks High School and Kurt Hahn High School!
We had our youth fellows give workshops on increasing engagement!
We made a free resource for practicing circle keeping!
Our ask for the week is for funds to support our upcoming youth conference!
viBe Theater Experience & The Circle Keepers invite you to join our artivism program combining music, mental health and restorative justice. The program is FREE OR CHARGE! and will happen on Mondays from 6:00pm-7:30PM, starting on Monday April 13th.
Apply today! bit.ly/thrive-sumner26
Friday updates from us!
Friday updates from us!
Organization Highlight: We Presented a Workshop at the “Beyond High School” Teen Summit.
Program Highlight: We Joined the Sing, Resist, Organize Event with Hands Off NYC.
Free Resource: No Kings! Songbook from the Kairos Center.
Funding Ask: Help Us Raise $10K!
Friday updates from us!
Organization Highlight: We Have a NYC Public Schools Vendors License!
Program Highlight: Farewell to Two Youth Fellows
Free Resource: Becoming a Restorative Justice Neighbor Circle Protocol
Funding Ask: Help Us Raise $10,000 Towards Our 2026 Peace & Justice Conference!
Join us at The Riverside Church on 3/19 for a massive resistance sing-in. Link in bio.
We’ll learn songs of resistance with @resistancerevivalchorus and @singingresistancenyc and @kairoscenternyc bringing joyful, singing resistance to the streets.
Sign up to sing with us at HandsOffNYC.com/sing
Friday updates!
Organization Highlight: A report from our artivist campaign for Immigrant Rights in San Antonio, TX!
Program Highlight: A new Sounds of Justice & Joy at Design Works High School in Brooklyn!
Free Resource: A Housing Justice Booklet
Funding Ask: Support our 2026 Conference
Friday updates! Hear from our Youth Organizer Amber, sign up for our Peace and Justice Youth Conference, and enjoy a free resource / lesson plan we made on teaching youth to be better public speakers!
Get yourself board members like Tanesha Grant form Parents Supporting Parents NY with board member Tajh Sutton picked up a few BRAND NEW LAPTOPS & PRINTERS! to donate to our program so the youths we serve can work on their college essays, their community organizing, and their artivist presentations!
Dear beloveds,
🌀 FREE RESOURCE: “The Real Me” RJ Circle
🔗 bit.ly/therealme-tck
💛 2026 Goal: 50 Monthly Donors
First 10 supporters get a swag bag.
$25/month feeds one full youth RJ circle.
🔗thecirclekeepers.com/donate
#RestorativeJustice #YouthLeadership #AbolitionInAction #TheCircleKeepers
Friday updates from us! Two exciting events, spots still open for our T.H.R.I.V.E music fellowship afterschool program, and our free resource is a collection of roleplays on standing up for your neighbors.
Please join us this Thursday, Feb 12th at 4:00pm for Dignity in Schools-NY's FY27 Campaign Launch at Tweed Courthouse fighting to expand school-based restorative justice, mental health access, immigrant protections and POL/ICE Free Schools.
Taking place October 17th-25th, DSC's 2026 National Week of Action Against School Pushout will unite communities across the country as we continue challenging harmful disciplinary policies and uplift viable alternatives that keep young people learning, thriving, and whole.
#DSCWoA2026 #DSC20
Friday updates from us! AQE Youth Advocacy Day Recap, a new Care Circle Fellowship, and a Games Library for Group Bonding and Icebreakers!
Save the dates! The Circle Keepers will be speaking in Los Angeles on April 9th, 10th, and 12th. Swipe for details on each specific day, and hope you see you there!
This week is Week of Action from Black Lives Matter at School! The Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action began as a one-day solidarity for Black lives in Seattle, then became a week of action in Philadelphia, is now a national movement encompassing a Year of Purpose.
Friday updates from us! Two new youth organizers, preparing for Youth Lobby Day in Albany, a Free Resource and Roleplay on Gossip and Social Media ("The Mean Finsta"), and supporting our cause!
The Circle Keepers are hosting a Youth Lobby Day Prep for youth of our organizations to engage in some good ole peer-to-peer support, to build confidence, to sharpen their messages, and to connect as a community.
📅 Saturday, January 31
⏰ 12 PM – 3 PM
📍 The YA-YA Network
🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/tck-jan31
Friday updates! We're so excited to announce that we have a new Director of Development. We also have a new free restorative justice protocol for you based on New Adventures, and this past week our Youth Fellows spent time with the folks at the Restorative Justice Institute!
Happy Friday! This week, we're excited to announce we have two new board members, we have new free resources for you based on the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and some great, educational program updates. We also hit our goal of 25 monthly donors for 2025, and we're aiming for 50 in 2026!
"They try to silence us, but they don’t know we are songs."
At The Circle Keepers, we KNOW that singing songs together is healing medicine. Singing songs together is how we organize.
And so we tell them. AND SO WE SING THEM.
WE DON'T JUST SING SONGS. WE ARE SONGS!
Happy Friday! This week we have many exciting things to share.
We have a new Manager of People and Programs, Múle Herrera!
We have a free resource on the Native American and Indigenous roots of restorative justice.
Our 2026 Peace and Justice Youth Conference is coming up this May!
🌟 Join Our Team! 🌟 Mental Health & Wellness Facilitator!
This role integrates abolitionist north stars, social work practices, restorative justice, arts-based healing, and youth development frameworks.
Full Application details: https://bit.ly/tck-msw
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Happy New Year! We hope 2026 is already bringing love, care and connection to you and yours.
This week we have three free restorative justice circle protocols that you can use for your communities, and twelve quotes that we hope will inspire your thinking and actions for the new year.
As we enter the holidays, we at The Circle Keepers invite you to enact our H.O.L.Y.D.A.Y.S. commitments alongside us! We also have an Artivist Transformation and Reflection workbook for you all to usher in the new year.
