Youth Branches or Ramas is the extended learning branch within Oakland Leaf. It includes youth interns and socio-cultural travel excursions. Ramas provides youth involved with Love Cultivating Schoolyards or who have completed at least 1 year with Youth Roots with paid leadership, mentoring, teaching, and culture producing opportunities within the following programs: Youth Roots, Ascend Sunset Warriors, Urban Arts, Project Phoenix, Oakland Peace Camp, and Love Cultivating Schoolyards. As interns, they co-plan and co-facilitate Seed Sessions and Rites of Passage activities for Youth Roots fellows; facilitate conference workshops; assist Academic Mentors and Enrichment Instructors in our Ascend Sunset Warriors and Urban Promise Academy afterschool classes; establish and nurture the growing garden spaces of Love Cultivating Schoolyards; co-facilitate and help administer the Oakland Peace Camp (OPC); and support event production in program and organizational celebrations and performances like the OPC End-of-Camp EXPO and the All Oakland Youth Talent Showcase.
The most recent Socio-cultural excursion was to Puerto Rico in the summer of 2008, where 13 youth explored topics of colonization and resistance with honorary madrina Dylcia Pagan.
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"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime"W.E.B. DuBois
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