Ifoma Modibo Kambon is an author and activist who is incarcerated at Folsom State Prison. He has been incarcerated for 48 years and was in solitary confinement for 41 years. He was one of the leaders of a very impactful prisoners’ hunger strike to abolish solitary confinement in California.

This Week In Peace chronicles the true life experiences of Khalilah Ramirez, a peace-centric performance artist in San Jose. These accounts are relevant because they involve all of us. The entire community benefits when we share our stories. Weekly classes schedules, performance dates and general info about the Dance of Peace can be obtained by emailing khalilahthepeacedancer@gmail

A $23 million budget cut to the East Side Union High School District is causing much alarm that the proposal has been kept so internal. Students, teachers and supporters are spreading the word and organizing to attend Thursday's board meeting. Here's one educator's message to the board.

We joke now that the world is going to end and that we should either live it up or do nothing at all. One writer, confesses feeling useless in the face of impending doom, but he doesn't feel that way anymore. This is what changed and how he is dreaming and exercising new worlds in the face of climate change.

Written by Khalilah "The Peace Dancer" Ramirez, This Week In Peace is a column with the express purpose of contributing light to the world, love to ourselves and our community and sharing true stories and practical tips for living our best possible lives. This Week In Peace emphasizes the wonder of life and the endless possibilities human beings have for joy, growth, harmony and happiness.

Joel says goodbye to the Raiders, remembering that, "the Raiders are as synonymous to Oakland as the Black Panthers and the Hells Angels, with counter cultural imagery that was birthed out of an us-against-the-world mentality sprinkled with the East Bay's original spice."

Part of a series of reflections on what it's like growing up in the San José neighborhoods they love and are proud of - the same neighborhoods the SJPD has labeled gang hotspots.

Jack recalls growing up in two very different neighborhoods and comes to the conclusion that no neighborhood is perfect. This story is part of a series of reflections about growing up in neighborhoods that are labeled gang hotspots.

The first in a series of youth reflections on what it's like growing up in the San José neighborhoods they love and are proud of - the same neighborhoods the SJPD has labeled gang hotspots.

Khalilah Ramirez is a performance artist and author known as "The Peace Dancer" in San Jose, CA. It is her personal mission to spread joy, love and peace with her dance. Learn what she's been up through her column This Week in Peace.

Photos by: Imani Mfalme, Angela Dennis, Raymond Da-boi, Michael Goins SV De-Bug - SV De-Bug - October 29, 2019 Micheal from Community Defense of East Tennessee supporting #DayofOutrage while documenting the event. #Protectblackwomen Supporters stand in solidarity as the song "I Am My Sister's Keeper" plays in the background. The names of black women slain by police are read out loud, and a moment of silence follows. Imani wearing a quote by Malcolm X. “The most disrespected

Khalilah Ramirez is an author, educator and performance artist known as The Peace Dancer. Her performance art, the Dance of Peace, is designed to radiate light, joy and peace to all who see it. In this week's column Khalilah got to visit with family in Louisiana and bring that light behind the walls of Angola Prison.

Cassandra is the first woman in California history who received a reduction in her sentence due to a change in sentencing law called 1170(d)(1). Amika, now the Policy Director at the Young Women's Freedom Center, met Cassandra when they were in prison together. When Amika was released, she lead an effort to free her sister from an unjust sentence. This is Amika and Cass' story of the power of the sister warriors.

Khalilah Ramirez is a performance artist, author and educator in San Jose. She founded The Dance of Peace in 2008 and continues to practice daily with the mission of, "Peace In Every Heart." Here is her latest experience and it's all about remembering.

Real accounts, uncensored from currently and formerly unhoused women calling for action to provide safe spaces & life saving measures for women in Santa Clara County.

While violence and homicides have decreased in the city, San José has doubled down on attempts to incarcerate Black and Brown youth through its Mayor's Gang Prevention Task Force – a machinery that continues historical racism and leads us further away from national efforts to decarcerate. The move has put our community on alert to challenge the role of law enforcement in the city’s youth services.

In her message to 11 year old Magdalena, who pleaded for her father to be released by ICE after last month's workplace raids, De-Bug organizer Alicia Chavez is transported to the same experience she lived. No child should be denied the opportunity to be with their parents.

We can kick ICE out of our county through policies that keep local law enforcement from doing ICE's work, but creating a community support system makes it so that people can stand up to ICE when they show up at their door. Hear Raquel share her encounter with ICE and how she protected her family.

Members of Prisoners United of Silicon Valley who organized for reform, communicate with each other and the outside through this newsletter that we are proud to share.

Khalilah Ramirez is a performance artist and author know as "The Peace Dancer" in San Jose, CA. It is her personal mission to spread joy, love and peace with her dance as well as standing for inclusiveness on all levels. Find out more or reach out to Khalilah @thepeacedancer on Instagram.