The Summer Activist (SAI) is our two month long training program designed to educate and empower students to be active participants in the political process. This program will be managed by both college and community interns who use their extensive connections with other political groups, organizations, and the vast community resources of Cambridge and Boston to educate high school and middle school students on a variety of issues affecting their local and global communities.

SAI specifically is geared toward youth between the ages of 14 to 18 who feel disengaged from school and/or youth who have experienced significant personal barriers to succeeding in school or work.

Through a series of hands-on trainings, participants learn community organizing, non-profit skills and personal leadership competencies that are transferable to both school and work.

SAI will run from July 2nd until August 10th of this year concluding with presentations made by participants.

The US military is making a stronger push than ever before to recruit our nation's youth. With flashy commericials and unbelievable promises, thousands of high school students are being shipped off
to fight. Military recruiters are highly concentrated in high schools across the country, talking with students in cafeterias, hallways, and even at commencement ceremonies.The law states that if
a school allows recruiters onto their campus, they must extend the same courtesy to counter-recruiters.

MOBE is working with Project Hip-Hop to go into Boston's high schools to educate students about alternatives to military service, the fine-print that recruiters may not tell them, and encourage them to
"Opt Out" of the being placed into the national registry that all public schools are required to submit to under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) creates and presents Peer-to-Peer anti-racism and anti-violence popular education workshops in the Boston and greater Boston area schools.  New workshops promote understanding of the interrelationship of Martin Luther King's theory of the Triple evils of militarism, racism and materialism.

We create a safe space for young people to come together and think deeply, critically and constructively on divisive issues such as race, gender, violence and socio-economics.  Then we help them to examine what they can personally do to address these issues, and empower them to take action.