Friday, January 3, 2020

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination links 010420



Obama and Cummings

The Lies in True Crime

All-Aboard the Freedom Train: ‘Harriet’ is Real Life African American Action Hero

The Nationals’ Discordant White House Celebration: Trump taints everything, but the 2019 World Series—and the joy of that win – will be Washington’s long after he’s gone

‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ and the GOP’s Crisis of Conscience

Explaining Trump’s Racism: Racism means a lot more than using slurs or feeling hatred. Yet even in these narrow terms, Trump fits the bill.

Years after agreeing to tackle cartels, US and Mexico are doing little

Colin Kaepernick Refused to Bend to Roger Goodell’s Will

How to build a multiracial DSA

Can Plantations Be Redeemed?  Thoughtful plantation tours can help us lean into our discomfort — and reconcile a painful past.

Back to Jim Crow Under Trump: 'Lynch Her' Is Republicans' Big Idea to Deal With Rep. Ilhan Omar: The Twitter account of Danielle Stella, the Republican challenger to Omar, has been shut down.

Dead Woman Walking: A Capital Film on Capital Punishment

High School Football Players Took a Knee Before a Game, and Opposing ‘Fans’ Threw Trash at Them: “Look at these [n-words] taking a knee and they don’t even know why they’re doing it,” said one person in the crowd.

Finding the Other: Toni Morrison’s Revolution.

News 13 Investigates: White Supremacy across the Carolinas and political issues

The Hate Report: Weird that this keeps happening, right?

SPLC Chairman of the Board, Bryan Fair, is the Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law

How much did it cost? Madison Co. wants amount in racial profiling settlement kept secret

Lawsuit aims to end juvenile solitary confinement in Florida

Weekend Read: Top 10 Ways You Helped Us Make a Difference in 2019

Weekend Read: When justice depends on the size of your pocketbook

A black woman faces prison because of a Jim Crow-era plan to ‘protect white voters’

On Indigenous People’s Day, Anishinaabeg Leaders March Against Enbridge’s $7.5 Billion Oil Pipeline: The pipeline’s route would carry 760,000 barrels of oil per day, crossing 15 watersheds affecting 215 lakes, and violating Ojibwe treaty rights.

Restorative Justice: A Much-Needed Alternative to Mass Incarceration. Courts and schools across the country are looking beyond punishment.

Ageism Has No Place in the Presidential Election: Science tells us that age and health are two very different things.

Why We Need Young People To Run the Country—And Why I’m Voting for Bernie Anyway: You can’t trust anyone over 30 years in office. Except maybe one.

Meet the Jew who built 5,300 schools for black children in the 1900s Deep South: New film, ‘Rosenwald,’ tells story of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald who transformed black lives, including those of writer Langston Hughes and opera singer Marion Anderson

Evanston will use recreational marijuana sales tax proceeds to fund local reparations program

Rep. John Lewis to undergo treatment for stage 4 pancreatic cancer: "I will return to Washington in coming days to continue our work and begin my treatment plan, which will occur over the next several weeks," he said in a statement.

Trump and racism: What do the data say?

The Decade in Asian America: Asian Americans are moving past stereotypes of being apolitical and perpetually foreign, but there's still work to do.

Confessions of a Veteran Klansman: How the U.S. Army Radicalized a Soldier

'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

Missouri Cops Used Federal Loophole To Seize $2.6 Million From Drivers Who They Never Charged With Crimes.  St. Charles County law enforcement used shady practices to seize motorists' assets without convictions.

key harm reduction strategies

LifeLines: Voices Against the Other Death Penalty

The Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration

Amistad Law Project advocates for the recognition of the human rights of all people and believes in the intersection of movements against systemic oppression.

ARDELLA'S HOUSE

HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION

Bread and Roses Community Fund

Philadelphia Drug Users' Union

Reconstruction, Inc.: Our mission is to effect social change by forging individuals that were formerly incarcerated into an organized community of leaders working together to transform the criminal justice system, their communities and themselves.

SISTERS RETURNING HOME: We assist women returning from prison to the community by re-establishing their connections to family while helping  to build and develop self-esteem, self-respect, self-confidence and self-sufficiency.  We focus on making the maximum positive effort for our community. Our members and volunteers provide the momentum that helps us affect change. Using data driven models, we provide solutions that make a long-lasting difference.

Why Not Prosper, Inc.: We are a grassroots nonprofit founded by a formerly incarcerated woman for other formerly incarcerated women. We are strong advocates for women and are committed to providing programs and services that support women in their re-entry efforts from prison to community. We provide a continuum of programs that includes Pre-Release Mentoring to incarcerated women, residential services at Why Not Prosper House and community services at our Resource Center located in Philadelphia PA.

Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project (YSRP) works to keep children out of adult jails and prisons, and to bring home people who were sentenced as children to life in prison without the possibility of parole (“Juvenile Lifers“).

Florida grandmother shocked with Taser, arrested on her 70th birthday when she refuses home search

‘Mother Of Environmental Justice’ Hazel Johnson Could Get Postage Stamp To Honor Work Cleaning Up South Side: The "Mother of Environmental Justice" may soon be the next to be honored with a commemorative postage stamp.

Woman saved by McDonald’s employees when she mouthed ‘help’ and ‘call 911’

The New Deal Wasn’t Intrinsically Racist: How today’s focus on “racial disparity” can distort our understanding of structural inequality

Appalachia vs. the Carceral State: After a mountaintop was flattened by coal mining, politicians pushed to build a prison there. Then the community got organized.

First-Person Singular: Reflections of an Urban Indian.  As Indian people, we are taught that it is community that saves us. So imagine my fear when I think of the displacement of urban Indians.

Martin Luther King vs Moodswing

Witch Hunting Requires An International Response

Everything Means Something In Viking

African American Museum in Philadelphia is the first institution built by a major United States city to house and interpret the life and work of African Americans

2 Kicked Out of National Guard over White Supremacist Ties

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