Flying Squads
Where Youth Rights Take Flight
The Climate: Is It an Emergency for Youth?
Today we went to Fridays For Future (FFF) at City Hall, a youth-based, peaceful organization striking for the climate emergency.
Flying Squads
Where Youth Rights Take Flight
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October 15th
My apologies for my brevity on this update; I am writing this a week and a half late, as I have fallen behind on posting. From what I remember, on this day, we simply went to Prospect Park, played Friday…
Pout Pout
Sometimes I have internal conflict over my desires and needs and those of the young people I spend my time with. I so desperately want the young people I work with to rise up and overthrow… everything. And most of…
A Place of Our Own
Today we spent most of the day working on our houses in Prospect Park. It’s fascinating to me how simple the group’s needs and desires are– they simply want a place of their own to care for and develop and…
The World is Drowning!
The morning started out being quite difficult. We couldn’t agree on what to do today. Ultimately, we all agreed that someone needed to make an executive decision for what to do each week. And so, we came up with a…
Zip Ties, Family Ties
On Friday, I talked about needing to find the rhythm backbone of our community before we’re able to run wild. In contrast, this Tuesday Flying Squad group has predominantly survived a year together as community. We survived being outdoors in…
I’ve Got Rhythm
I wrote to a new parent tonight: “We had a bit of a weird day, really. But it was good. Flying Squad is a lot about people learning how to be with one another (a skill I so wish the…
BK TFS Goes to Fort Greene Park
Our day… We went to Fort Greene Park and played Friday the 13th and tag and other games. Charlie explained how to play Friday the 13th in this video: Oh, and by request, here’s a photo of Solomon eating…
Brooklyn TFS Headed to Governors Island
Today the Tuesday Flying Squad decided to go to Governors Island (Roosevelt Island was a close second, inspired by seeing Portland TFS’s tram posts from last week… ) Along the way we played a game of Fairplay where we freed…
FFS Brooklyn
Today was the first ever Friday Flying Squad! We met in the library and talked a bit about what we want Fridays to look like and what social justice issues are important to us (the focus of Friday’s squad is…