How a tulip teaches us resilience and other big life lessons from Mother Nature Jane Goodall on resilience of nature and the indomitable human spirit Imagination: “I would describe it as ‘ripe for invasion’” – Resilience Floating Rafts of Fire Ants “As water levels in a flood rise, the ants…
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† 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, and author of The School-to- Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline and Racialized Double Standards, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer…
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‘Cause it’s the new Mother Nature taking over It’s the new Splendid lady come to call It’s the new Mother Nature taking over She’s gettin’ us all She’s gettin’ us all….. *** Animal Agency: Resistance, Rebellion, and the Struggle for Autonomy Giant Antarctic iceberg ‘hanging by a thread’, say scientists Great…
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Johnny Cash sings Merle Haggard, 1969 “Mama Tried” *** (15)
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Led Zepplein “Good Times Bad Times” (Bonham/Jones/Page) The Hindenburg disaster, 80 years on: a ‘perfect storm of circumstances’ “Then the zeppelin turned. Its tail swung into view. On it, stark and black, were swastikas…that beauty up there turned into fear.” *** (60)
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† 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, and author of The School-to- Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline and Racialized Double Standards, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer…
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“On the evening of May 4, 1886, a meeting was called for Haymarket Square in Chicago to protest the killing of four strikers at the McCormick Harvester Works the day before. It was a peaceful meeting, and had dwindled from several thousand to a few hundred when a detachment of…
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† 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 and Considering Hate, is co-founder of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every…
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