Revelations: “Our Best Weapon is Sunlight…”
Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest Green Is the New Red Drone on the Farm Campaign, Kickstarter (33)
CI: Justice As Theft
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
Revelations: The Pale Blue Dot
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Revelations: The Defiance of Flowers
“War kills people and destroys human creation; but as though mocking war’s devastation, flowers inevitably bloom through its ruins.” ~ from “The First Decoration Day” by David W. Blight, 2011. The People’s History of Memorial Day, Zinn Education Project. (8)
CI: The Time Has Come
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
Brown at 60: “Great Progress, a Long Retreat and an Uncertain Future”
Brown at 60: Great Progress, a Long Retreat and an Uncertain Future Authors: Gary Orfield and Erica Frankenberg, with Jongyeon Ee and John Kuscera UCLA’s Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, May 15, 2014 “Brown was a major accomplishment and we should rightfully be proud. But a real celebration should also…
CI: Words and Action Against Youth Incarceration
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at…
Obama’s FY 2015 Budget Proposal Unsettling for Student Loan Borrowers
From Heather Jarvis: On the one hand, the administration proposes to extend PAYE to all student borrowers starting in 2015, regardless of when they borrowed. That would be nice. But the administration proposes sharply reducing the loan forgiveness available to high-debt student loan borrowers (except they refer to these cuts…
