Da Urban Butterflies Youth Leadership Development Project

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Da Urban Butterflies (D.U.B) Young Women's Leadership Project was formed by youth (ages 13-25) on October 2004. DUB aims to contribute in the leadership development, capacity building, and the personal and collective empowerment of the youth in Washington Heights, and the New York City community as a whole. D.U.B, since its inception has supported local and international campaigns of people and na

tions in the struggle everywhere to achieve empowerment, peace with justice and liberation in all its dimensions-personal, social, political, economic, and religious. D.U.B provides youth in the community, particularly young women of color, with a safe space to explore our identities, our personal stories, and the HERS/histories of our people and their struggles for equality and justice. In our process of educating self, we also seek to create a positive impact in our community. From the people’s HER/histories of struggle in marginalized communities, we learn to strategize and find creative solutions using social media, art expressions, education, and organizing skills to address present issues related to immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, youth empowerment and activism, and women’s rights amongst other struggles towards justice. D.U.B offers a physical space for youth to meet and create long lasting healthy relationships and support networks amongst the youth, as well as intergenerational support. DUB is active in promoting and creating alternatives that will advance the processes to achieve peace with justice, NOW. We firmly believe that the youth are our community’s most valuable resource, and the youth's talents should be valued and nourished with the purpose of strengthening self and the community. Our goal is to educate, build community, organize and mobilize our communities to take actions that will bring systematic changes in our society. UPDATED: AUGUST 2010

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Mercury, Venus, and Saturn align with the Pyramids of Giza for the first time in 2,737 years on December 3, 2012
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Mercury, Venus, and Saturn align with the Pyramids of Giza for the first time in 2,737 years on December 3, 2012

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“Women have always been healers. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists. They were abortionists, nurses and counselors. They were the pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs, and exchanging the secrets of their uses. They were midwives, traveling from home to home and village to village. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from books and lectures, learning from each other, and passing on experience from neighbor to neighbor and mother to daughter. They were called “wise women” by the people, witches or charlatans by the authorities. Medicine is part of our heritage as women, our history, our birthright.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, “Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women”

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La Flor wearing our "HERstory Is Our Strength" tee in red! Available in white! Super comfy shirt! Available at daurbanbutterflies.bigcartel.com

Our Book of Ideas!
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Our Book of Ideas!

04/20/2014

"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them”
- Assata Shakur

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Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor DiopShot in Abidjan
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Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop
Shot in Abidjan

Paredes que hablan // Walls that TalkCiudad de México // Mexico CityFoto por La nepantlerA // Photo taken by La nepantle...
04/02/2014

Paredes que hablan // Walls that Talk
Ciudad de México // Mexico City
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