JCPA convened over 500 Jewish
professionals and civic lay leaders virtually April 25th and 26th for the
JCPA2021 National Conference
https://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/jcpa2021-roundup/
A Jewish Call to Action: Ending
Mass Incarceration and Criminalization
The Meaning of a Stolen Diaper: The
black market for baby products is part of a larger debate about how New York
City handles low-level crime.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-meaning-of-a-stolen-diaper
San Jose Unified adds more
police, outraged community demands ‘Care, not Cops’: The board’s decision to
use police officers on campus makes the district – the largest in San Jose – an
outlier among other Bay Area districts, many of which have opted to decrease
the
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/12/9025520/
Probe finds ‘credible evidence’
Marin athletes used racial slurs toward opposing Bay Area teams
Israeli official: Turkey agrees to return ancient Hebrew inscription to Jerusalem
The Hypocrisy of Support for
Ukraine Must Not Harden Black America's Hearts
https://www.newsweek.com/hypocrisy-support-ukraine-must-not-harden-black-americas-hearts-1687360
Levits was born in Riga, into
the family of Latvian Jewish engineer Jonass Levits and his wife,
Latvian-Baltic German poet Ingeborga Levite (née Barga, pen name Aija Zemzare).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egils_Levits
In Ukraine: Where Is Black Human
Interest?
https://www.laprogressive.com/black-human-interest/
B'NAI B'RITH IN YOUR COMMUNITY
AND AROUND THE GLOBE
https://www.bnaibrith.org/bnai-brith-impact-spring-2022.html
Feminism as a Tool for Peace: As
nuclear disarmament becomes a growing priority for many countries, a
Corporation-supported report considers feminism as a tool for shaping better
policymaking
https://www.carnegie.org/topics/topic-articles/nuclear-threats/feminism-tool-peace/
“Grooming” Is Republicans’ Cruel
New Buzzword for Targeting Trans Kids: On the right, “grooming” is being teed
up as the next CRT.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165761/republican-governors-grooming-crt-trans-rights
E-Book: Say the Wrong Thing:
Stories and Strategies for Racial Justice & Authentic Community, from
Amanda Kemp
How to Have a Voice and Lean
Into Conversations About Race | Amanda Kemp | TEDxWilmington - Oct 5, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF--2vGj7Tg&t=72s
What white people can do to move
race conversations forward | Caprice Hollins | TEDxSeattle - Dec 18, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iknxhxEn1o
She Discovered What Happened to
400 Dutch Jews Who Disappeared: In a new exhibition, Wally de Lang, a Dutch
historian, has tracked what happened to each of the men rounded up in the first
Nazi raids on Dutch Jews, whose fates have largely been a mystery for
decades. Over the course of two days in
February 1941, some 400 Jewish men were rounded up by Nazi police in raids in
Amsterdam. Only a few survived the war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/design/nazis-dutch-jews-disappearance.html
Earlier this year, Officer Allen
suffered a heart attack that led to a serious brain injury after he was stung
by a bee. Doctors say he will not recover.
https://6abc.com/society/officer-incapacitated-by-bee-sting-moved-into-hospice-care/11659739/
‘What Led Him to This Assumption?’: Black Attorneys
Compare Being Mistaken for Defendants In Courtroom to the Systemic Biases Their
Clients Face
Black teen was top student until
she was dragged out of class and strip-searched by police at school
Federal jury awards $85 million
to California family in wrongful death lawsuit after arrest
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/19/us/san-diego-lucky-phounsy-wrongful-death-lawsuit/index.html
We Must Protect Historically
Black Colleges and Universities: It’s no wonder HBCUs are under attack given
how hostile our society remains to Black success.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hbcu-bomb-threats-education/
Stanley Nelson’s Lifetime of
Documenting Black Experience: The filmmaker discusses the film he co-directed
about the Attica prison uprising, how he got his start, and what it takes to
nurture the careers of younger artists.
Yes, Black Voters Feel Let Down
by Biden: From police reform to voting rights, Black voters are still waiting
for action from the administration they helped put in power.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-voting-police-reform/
My Norman Mailer Problem—and
Ours: Digging down into the roots of white America’s infatuation with Black.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/norman-mailer-white-negro/
Truth, Light, and the Origins of
the Fight Against Sexual Assault on College Campuses: How a cohort of young
feminists organized, agitated, and turned to Title IX to stop rape and sexual
harassment on colleges 45 years ago.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/college-title-ix-history/
Study and Struggle: The
pragmatism of police abolition.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/derecka-purnell-becoming-abolitionists/
Plastic Surgery Has a Troubled
History Inside Prisons. Some Advocates Want It to Make a Comeback.
Should cosmetic procedures be
part of how society prepares prisoners to reenter it?
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/02/plastic-surgery-prisons-lookism-appearance-bias/
Why Put Skinny Actors in Fat
Suits? In The Thing About Pam, Renee
Zellweger wears a fat suit to play Pamela Hupp, who is a plus-sized woman. Why?
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/film/fat-suits
Racial Cleansing in the United
States - Rick Shenkman: The white community would issue an ultimatum to blacks
that they would have to leave within a certain amount of time – usually
measured in hours – or they would be killed.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/racial-cleansing-in-the-united-states
The Conservative and the
Murderer: Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?
Letters to the Editor: Judging
Slave Owners in the 21st Century; Wisdom Doesn’t Stop with Judeo-Christian
Teachings; United World Needed; Sinkhole or Swim.
https://www.populist.com/28.06.Letters.html
I’m a Christian Mom and I Love My Trans Daughter: I’m a
lot like you — except my state wants to investigate me as a child abuser simply
for supporting my kid.
https://www.populist.com/28.06.Shappley.html
The Meaning Behind Brian
Flores’s New Job: Brian Flores has a new gig in the league, but it won’t deter
him from pressing forward on his racial discrimination suit.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/brian-flores-steelers/
Meet the High School Students
Who Organized Thousands to Walk Out for Amir Locke: Twin Cities teens demand a
true ban on deadly “no-knock” warrants, a broken promise from Mayor Frey.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/students-walkout-amir-locke-blm-defund-minneapolis-police-minnesota
St. Louis’s Movement-Backed
Mayor Promised to Close an Infamous Jail. What’s the Hold Up?
Mayor Tishaura Jones, who took
office in April 2021, promised to empty the jail known as “the Workhouse”
within the first 100 days of her tenure.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-lives-matter-st-louis-workhouse-public-safety-bail-campaign
WHISTLEBLOWER: Have
Trump-supporting MAGA followers infiltrated the CIA?
America's Black upper class -
Rich, successful and empowered | DW Documentary - Mar 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-0NsJ6RgJ0
A Mirror on Every Wall—and a
Microphone Behind Every Mirror. The work
of belonging is never done.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jargon-authenticity-belonging-dei/
The Secret Black History of LSD:
Research on psychedelics, then and now, has been riddled with medical racism
and exclusion. But that hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and
solace through such drugs.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/lsd-acid-black-history/
In the Balance: American women
at work.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/claudia-goldin-career-family/
Abolitionists Win Big-ish in
Sleepy College Town
https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2022/abolitionists-win-big/
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act
Will Protect All of Us: Hate crimes of all kinds, and against all kinds of
people, are still far too prevalent in American society. And they are massively
underreported.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165930/emmett-till-anti-lynching-act-arbery-hate-crimes
Native, Inc.: Fifty years ago,
Indigenous Alaskans created their own corporations to manage their land and
affairs. Their success holds lessons in the lower 48, where tribal rights are
under renewed attack.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/native-inc/
On the Basis of Sex: The amazing
success and frustrating challenges of Title IX.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/on-the-basis-of-sex/
Jane Elliott, internationally
known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National
Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice
and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely
arbitrary factors.
Ms. Elliott invites you to make
immediate use of the materials below. The task of combating prejudice and
racism requires education, introspection, and commitment. We hope you find
these materials enlightening and useful.
https://janeelliott.com/learning-materials
Building inclusive
organizations: An interview with Raquel Saraswati, AFSC’s senior director of
diversity, equity, and inclusion
https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/building-inclusive-organizations
1983 arson conviction vacated
due to antisemitism at trial
Racist flyers circulating in
Houston neighborhoods, city leaders respond
'Hate and violence:' Noose found
at Fremont high school
https://www.ktvu.com/news/hate-and-violence-noose-found-at-fremont-high-school
‘Shocked at the viciousness’:
Six assailants beat Jewish man on New York City street. Police investigating assault in Brooklyn as a
hate crime, make one arrest; ADL offers $10,000 reward for information;
governor ‘outraged,’ as antisemitic attacks surge
Security guard at Columbus
Jewish school arrested for making online anti-Semitic threats: According to
media reports, Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun with the
message, “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”
No charges will be filed in
fatal police shooting of Amir Locke, killed during no-knock warrant service
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/us/amir-locke-shooting-police-no-charges/index.html
Some women shared the messages they get on Instagram.
It’s not pretty. A study that looked at
over 8,700 direct messages to five high-profile women on Instagram finds the
platform failed to act on 90 percent of the abuse
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/06/instagram-women-harassment/
Dad who lived in dorm convicted
of abusing daughter’s pals
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-manhattan-education-6bc73ea0314cef6b21d72e592cd04456
We look at “the Putin wing” of the Republican
Party.
https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2
SPLC Releases Annual Year in
Hate & Extremism Report: When Hate Goes Mainstream
The Year in Hate & Extremism
Report 2021
https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021
The Year in Hate & Extremism
Report 2021
https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#hate-group-numbers
The Extreme Right’s Pivot to
(Live) Video
https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#pivot-live-video
A White Nationalist’s Journey
Through Alt-Tech
https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#nick-fuentes
The Year in Unity and Resilience
https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#community-resilience
What We Do Now: Policy
Recommendations
https://www.splcenter.org/20220309/year-hate-extremism-report-2021#policy-change
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