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Tuesday Oct 5th – Wrongful Conviction Day
Innocence Project As one of the Central Park Five, I was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated as a teenager for a horrible crime I did not commit. I was finally exonerated in 2002. After all these years, that experience has never left me. Even though I’m free, I can’t and I won’t forget about all the…
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Where is the Disconnect?
Officials report they fear there will be no place for some young people to go when they close or downsize Rikers Island in New York. This is the institution that imprisoned 17 yr old Kalief Browder for approx 3 years without a trial after being accused of stealing a backpack. All the while, community…
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Youth Interns for Progress, Peace, and Justice
Now Recruiting Youth Interns for Progress, Peace, and Justice What? A Project to Reduce Crime and Improve Racial Equity We are looking for youth with experiences in foster care and or the juvenile justice system who have been charged with low-level nonviolent offenses to serve as interns for social change. Who? Males and Females…
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”
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Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Langston Hughes
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Happy Black History Month!
“ “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
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“Preventing Another Flint will Take an Outpouring of Resolve.”
Another minority community, this time in East Tx, faces major public health crisis suspected from fracking/inversion well spills and operations. https://wordpress.com/view/itsaboutmorethanjustus.wordpress.com
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Public Health, Environmental Health: Whose Responsibility is It?
Flint -Michigan- Should race, class, and power determine the quality of public health? https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandro-galea/lessons-from-flint-its-no_b_9100654.html
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Without Youth Voices, There Can Be No Youth Justice
The field is beginning to realize that in order to see true transformation, it is critical to partner with youth and their families. It’s crucial to give them a voice in the changes that affect them. https://www.vera.org/blog/without-youth-voices-there-can-be-no-youth-justice
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Youth Justice Action Month
Transferring Power to those Impacted- Systems that are turning some of their power over to youth, families, and communities are seeing success. The Vera Institute for Justice reports “For too long, the justice systems have held all the decision-making power. In order to generate lasting change, actors in the justice systems will have to…
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