Beef is Bad For Hip-Hop…ask Snoop Dogg!!!

There was once a time when beef was good for hip-hop.  But today things have gotten out of hand. Sorry 50 Cent and Rick Ross, your current skirmish isn’t doing anything positive for the music industry.

That’s why we have to give Snoop credit for being a leader in the hip-hop world.   From his frequent calls for West Coast rappers to work together, to his work with youth in the Snoop Dogg Football League, Big Snoop Dogg takes action everyday to make sure the world is a better place.   Yeah he’s a rich and famous rapper, but he gets lots of love from us.

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Biko Baker

Learn in the Classroom or Learn in the Streets

California is first in prison spending and 41st in spending on education. Therein lies the the root cause of the problems we see in our communities. Let us silence the violence and invest in education.

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MK and Sandy Take on Prop 13

Two of our organizers from San Francisco, MK and Sandy, sent us a video they recorded last Friday about the need to repeal Prop 13, a piece of California legislation that was passed in 1978. Prop 13 created a cap on property tax rates in the state, reducing them by an average of 57% and totally bankrupting our funding for schools. We need to repeal Prop 13 so we can get funding back to our broken schools!

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Heather Box

The Hood Saves The Hood

If there is violence going on in your community there are ways to get involved to be part of the solution.  Like what Ashel does in Oakland, you can do that in your community too.

Email: theleague@99problems.org to get help getting started! Peace and love.

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Heather Box

The Campaign Against Violence

Violence is real.  Our communities rise and fall because of the love we have for each other.

The most powerful thing that you have is your voice: be loud!

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Sam Patton

Cash Warren and Tarik Ross Tackle Gang Violence

For decades, urban and gang violence has been a hands off issue for our national government.  We know why; the people in the White House didn’t see it as ‘their problem,’ and in the meantime there’s been a war in our streets that has cost thousands of our young lives and made it unsafe for us to go outside.

Now, we have an opportunity with the Obama Administration to push him to invest in new kinds of violence prevention programs, not just putting more cop cars and cameras on the streets.

Cash and Tarik are right…it is going to take serious investment in community based solutions, in programs like Amer-I-Can that have a track record of solving the problems from the ground up.

The League of Young Voters Education Fund is working in our communities to bring attention to local violence on a national level.  To get involved or speak your mind, email: theleague@99problems.org with your name and zip code.

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Sam Patton