Who Are We: Students using digital media to advance social justice. We are middle schoolers, high schoolers, and students up to age 25.
GBYM Mission: To create communities where young people build
the confidence and media skills to express themselves and to promote community building, multi-cultural understanding, and the common good.
Our Social Justice Values
Our films and programs follow these priorities.
Young leadership:
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Making space for youth voices, listening to youth voices, lifting up youth voices, & promoting young leaders.
Community:
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Coming together, sharing stories, listening to others’ stories, and healing and growing together.
Healthy Earth, Healthy Humans:
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Reviving and protecting our natural world, urban green space, & healthy lifestyles.
Visual, Performing, and Media Arts:
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Powering youth to express their experiences and to build empathy.
Social Justice:
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Valuing and protecting Black lives: ending white supremacy and anti-Black racism in our society’s public and private structures.
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Valuing and protecting non-Black and indigenous people of color.
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Achieving and protecting Immigrant and refugee rights
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Helping families regardless of their legal status.
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Ending generations of dehumanizing immigrants and refugees
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Achieving and protecting LGBTQ+ rights including access to healthcare
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Achieving and protecting women’s rights including women’s access to healthcare.
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Achieving and protecting rights of all regardless of physical or mental ability.
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Fighting anti-disabled policies.
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Acknowledging that we do not know what we do not know. Always learning.