🚨 LAST DAY TO REGISTER 🚨 The countdown is ON for the 2026 Peace & Justice Youth Conference ✊🏽🔥 ✅ Registration closes TODAY — Thursday, May 28 at 6:00 PM! https://bit.ly/peaceandjustice2026 📅 Saturday, May 30, 2026 ⏰ 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM 📍 DesignWorks High School 29 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Dear Familia! A loving reminder that registration for the 2026 Peace & Justice Youth Conference will close on Thursday, May 28 at 6:00 PM.  Register before the deadline: https://bit.ly/peaceandjustice2026 📅 Saturday, May 30, 2026

Happy Friday! Here's what The Circle Keepers have been up to this week:

The 2026 Peace & Justice Youth Conference is ONE WEEK AWAY!!!! 🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/peaceandjustice2026 📅 May 30, 2026 ⏰ 9:30AM-5PM 📍 DesignWorks High School, Brooklyn 🌱 #CommunityCare #YouthOrganizing #JusticeMovement #CollectivePower

Friday updates from us!

Please join us on Friday May 29th, from 3:30-7pm at Prospect Park, Concert Grove Pavilion, Brooklyn. NY. We’ll have youth groups and partners offering workshops and trainings on topics like immigration, reproductive health, activism, restorative justice, anti-violence, and more.

🚨 YOUTH ACTIVISTS, ORGANIZERS & CHANGE MAKERS 🚨 Participants at the 2026 Peace & Justice Youth Conference will receive 7 HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE for attending! 🎉 📝 REGISTER NOW: bit.ly/peaceandjustice2026

The ballot is live!  Through #ThePeoplesMoney, all New Yorkers 11 and older regardless of immigration status get to decide how millions of dollars of the city budget will be spent in their communities. Cast your vote today our #linkinbio or at on.nyc.gov/pb (choose code "CIRCLE")

Happy May Day and Friday Updates! Here's what we've been up to this week.

Join The Circle Keepers and RJOY on May 4th. 2026 from 5PM –7PM for a participatory songwriting workshop, where we will engage in creative resistance, artivism and cultural wealth!

Canvassing Training For Participatory Budgeting! THURSDAY MAY7" 4PM-6PM RSVP: bit.ly/sptrie-canvass

Organization Highlight: Register for the 2026 Peace & Justice Conference Program Highlight: Our Youth Leaders Circle Kept Intergenerationally Free Resource: A Police-Free Schools Slide Deck: Learn About The Solutions Not Suspensions Campaign Funding Ask: Help Us Raise $10,000 For Our Conference!

FINAL 24 hours to submit your Workshops and Tabling requests for  The 2026 PEACE & JUSTICE YOUTH CONFERENCE !!!! Submit Workshops: https://bit.ly/pandj26-workshops Submit Tabling: https://bit.ly/pandj26-tabling SAVE THE DATE: https://bit.ly/peaceandjustice2026

Friday updates!

WE Call everyone to VETO Intros. 001-B and 175-B! which would allow the NYPD to decide when and how students speak out for democracy in their schools!   Join us today at 12PM noon at City Hall Park and help us chant!!

Friday updates from us!  Organization Highlight: The Circle Keepers And Vibe Theater Experience At Face2Face Conference! Program Highlight: Spring Break! Free Resource: The Sherrification Of Education   Funding Ask: Help Us Raise $10,000 Toward Our 2026 Peace & Justice Conference!

7h Annual Online Conference April 10-12, 2026 https://givebutter.com/CFTE2026conference

Friday updates from us! We taught workshops at DesignWorks High School and Kurt Hahn High School! We had our youth fellows give workshops on increasing engagement! We made a free resource for practicing circle keeping! Our ask for the week is for funds to support our upcoming youth conference!

viBe Theater Experience & The Circle Keepers invite you to join our artivism program combining music, mental health and restorative justice. The program is FREE OR CHARGE! and will happen on Mondays from 6:00pm-7:30PM, starting on Monday April 13th.  Apply today! bit.ly/thrive-sumner26

Friday updates from us!

Friday updates from us! Organization Highlight: We Presented a Workshop at the “Beyond High School” Teen Summit.   Program Highlight: We Joined the Sing, Resist, Organize Event with Hands Off NYC.  Free Resource: No Kings! Songbook from the Kairos Center. Funding Ask: Help Us Raise $10K!

Friday updates from us! Organization Highlight: We Have a NYC Public Schools Vendors License! Program Highlight: Farewell to Two Youth Fellows Free Resource: Becoming a Restorative Justice Neighbor Circle Protocol Funding Ask: Help Us Raise $10,000 Towards Our 2026 Peace & Justice Conference!

Join us at The Riverside Church on 3/19 for a massive resistance sing-in. Link in bio. We’ll learn songs of resistance with @resistancerevivalchorus and @singingresistancenyc and @kairoscenternyc bringing joyful, singing resistance to the streets. Sign up to sing with us at HandsOffNYC.com/sing

Friday updates!  Organization Highlight: A report from our artivist campaign for Immigrant Rights in San Antonio, TX! Program Highlight: A new Sounds of Justice & Joy at Design Works High School in Brooklyn! Free Resource: A Housing Justice Booklet  Funding Ask: Support our 2026 Conference

Friday updates! Hear from our Youth Organizer Amber, sign up for our Peace and Justice Youth Conference, and enjoy a free resource / lesson plan we made on teaching youth to be better public speakers!

Get yourself board members like Tanesha Grant form Parents Supporting Parents NY with board member Tajh Sutton picked up a few BRAND NEW LAPTOPS & PRINTERS! to donate to our program so the youths we serve can work on their college essays, their community organizing, and their artivist presentations!

Dear beloveds, 🌀 FREE RESOURCE: “The Real Me” RJ Circle 🔗 bit.ly/therealme-tck 💛 2026 Goal: 50 Monthly Donors First 10 supporters get a swag bag. $25/month feeds one full youth RJ circle. 🔗thecirclekeepers.com/donate #RestorativeJustice #YouthLeadership #AbolitionInAction #TheCircleKeepers

Friday updates from us! Two exciting events, spots still open for our T.H.R.I.V.E music fellowship afterschool program, and our free resource is a collection of roleplays  on standing up for your neighbors.

Please join us this Thursday, Feb 12th at 4:00pm for Dignity in Schools-NY's FY27 Campaign Launch at Tweed Courthouse fighting to expand school-based restorative justice, mental health access, immigrant protections and POL/ICE Free Schools.

Taking place October 17th-25th, DSC's 2026 National Week of Action Against School Pushout will unite communities across the country as we continue challenging harmful disciplinary policies and uplift viable alternatives that keep young people learning, thriving, and whole. #DSCWoA2026 #DSC20

Friday updates from us! AQE Youth Advocacy Day Recap, a new Care Circle Fellowship, and a Games Library for Group Bonding and Icebreakers!

Save the dates! The Circle Keepers will be speaking in Los Angeles on April 9th, 10th, and 12th. Swipe for details on each specific day, and hope you see you there!

This week is Week of Action from Black Lives Matter at School! The Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action began as a one-day solidarity for Black lives in Seattle, then became a week of action in Philadelphia, is now a national movement encompassing a Year of Purpose.

Friday updates from us! Two new youth organizers, preparing for Youth Lobby Day in Albany, a Free Resource and Roleplay on Gossip and Social Media ("The Mean Finsta"), and supporting our cause!

The Circle Keepers are hosting a Youth Lobby Day Prep for youth of our organizations to engage in some good ole peer-to-peer support, to build confidence, to sharpen their messages, and to connect as a community. 📅 Saturday, January 31 ⏰ 12 PM – 3 PM 📍 The YA-YA Network 🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/tck-jan31

Friday updates! We're so excited to announce that we have a new Director of Development. We also have a new free restorative justice protocol for you based on New Adventures, and this past week our Youth Fellows spent time with the folks at the Restorative Justice Institute!

Happy Friday! This week, we're excited to announce we have two new board members, we have new free resources for you based on the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and some great, educational program updates. We also hit our goal of 25 monthly donors for 2025, and we're aiming for 50 in 2026!

"They try to silence us, but they don’t know we are songs." At The Circle Keepers, we KNOW that singing songs together is healing medicine. Singing songs together is how we organize. And so we tell them. AND SO WE SING THEM.  WE DON'T JUST SING SONGS. WE ARE SONGS!

Happy Friday! This week we have many exciting things to share. We have a new Manager of People and Programs, Múle Herrera!  We have a free resource  on the Native American and Indigenous roots of restorative justice. Our 2026 Peace and Justice Youth Conference is coming up this May!

🌟 Join Our Team! 🌟 Mental Health & Wellness Facilitator! This role integrates abolitionist north stars, social work practices, restorative justice, arts-based healing, and youth development frameworks. Full Application details: https://bit.ly/tck-msw 📧

Happy New Year! We hope 2026 is already bringing love, care and connection to you and yours. This week we have three free restorative justice circle protocols that you can use for your communities, and twelve quotes that we hope will inspire your thinking and actions for the new year.

As we enter the holidays, we at The Circle Keepers invite you to enact our H.O.L.Y.D.A.Y.S. commitments alongside us! We also have an Artivist Transformation and Reflection workbook for you all to usher in the new year.

Hanukkah and Noche Buenas were where I first experienced homeplace.  my wish is that we all reflect on—and embody—the lessons of homeplace: tending the flame, honoring our ancestors, and choosing care as a practice of resistance. With love and solidarity, Martín Urbach

Friday updates from us! Funding Ask: Help us reach $10K in donations before 2026.  Organization Highlight: Weekend Cohort Training in Milwaukee. We had a great time with @sun__seekermke, a Black Trans Youth-led group of RJ practitioners Free Resource: An ABC's of Restorative Justice coloring book

Friday updates from us!

viBe Theater Experience & The Circle Keepers invite you to apply for our T.H.R.I.V.E Fellowship —a free Music & Mental Health Fellowship for Brooklyn High Schoolers who care about healing, justice, and the arts on Wednesdays, 3:30PM–6PM APPLY: https://bit.ly/thrive2026 Apply by 12/31/25!

Friday updates! Keep an eye out for our 2026 Peace & Justice Youth Conference RSVPs, enjoy our free Seasons of Change Restorative Justice Circle, and help us reach raise $1,600 by the end of the year to hit $10K raised in donations in 2025!

FAMILIA! New Yorkers for Racially Just Public Schools (RJPS) invites you to “Meeting the Moment: A Roadmap to the NYC Schools Chancellor” on December 8th at 6:30 PM. 👉 Register at the QR code!

Help us reach $2,025 today, and we can get those donations matched! Your tax-deductible gift helps us provide weekly homemade meals + snacks, restorative justice & art-making materials, instruments for Sounds of Justice & Joy, youth-led circles that shift schools from punishment to possibility.

FAMILIA!!!!! 📣 We’re Hiring! — Program & People Operations Manager The Circle Keepers is excited to welcome someone who loves systems, people, and youth leadership as much as we do!  Read the full application at: bit.ly/tck-opsmanager