Donnie interview (Poetry & Prison Project at Youth UpRising)

Donnie interview for the Poetry & Prison Project produced by Oakland youth reporters in the Youth UpRising Media Literacy & Production program (YU Media-LP).

For Donnie's poem "Awake in the streets" please go to:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KTqZLQ-nMPY

"Poetry & Prison" multimedia story is an introduction to in-depth reporting about how mass incarceration affects young people growing up in Oakland. We have found that poetry can be a more creative and honest way to express some of the feelings young people have from having gone through or knowing people who have gone through the prison system.

http://www.opentosolutions.com/poetry

This multimedia story was produced by Kash Gaines and Yoram Savion and their students in the Youth UpRising Multimedia Literacy & Production program:

Akeila Tolson, Cheyenne English, Shawn Hughes and Amore Love.

This story is part of the Oakland Tribune's 2007 Homicide Report.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandh...

© YU Media-LP 2008

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• donnie
• interview
• poetry
• prison
• youth
• uprising
• media
• literacy
• production
• yoram
• amore
• dawon
• akeila
• bizzy

[MARGERTTA]

WAT UP DONNIE I JUST WANT T O SAY KEEP YA HEAD UP STAY IN SKOOL AN DNT GOT O PRISION I NEVER BEEN BUT I KNOW IT'S NOT GOOD JUST HANG IN THERE TRUSTI KNOW WAT U GOING THROUGH IM FROM OAKLAND TOO I HADE TO G THROW PEOPEL DYING CLOSE TO ME I MIGHT BE YOUNG BUT TRUST I KNO WAT IM TALKIN BOUT L.L LIVE LIVE TO D fullest BRAH SEE U WHEN I CUM TO YU K UN TILL THEN BE GOOD

[dubauc98]

he talking bout this BUT NOW HE IN JAIL cmon bruh free DONNIE

[wtfimjah]

he knowez hiz self 100% fuck 50 umma kill me a police officer i hope itz tha 1 that locked lil donny up!

[wtfimjah]

real solllid nigga 100%

[wtfimjah]

swagggen

[32abell]

@dubauc98

This was how long ago? But , yeah Free donnie!