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Racial Healing and Youth Action!
Opportunity for Action Spread the word! We are proud to announce the Power of Youth Challenge: Youth Leading Racial Healing, a leadership and service opportunity supporting youth-designed projects that promote racial equity and address systemic racism. Through this opportunity, young people aged 13-19 can identify a need in their own communities and receive $250 in mini-grants to…
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National Day for Racial Healing
Join the Dialogue You are invited to join our local dialogue on Sunday January 17 at 2 pm MT as we explore connections between truth, racial healing and transformation from the perspective of multi-faiths. This dialogue is in honor of the National Day for Racial Healing on January 19, 2021. Email peecetoday@gmail.com for login information
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Why is it important to name racial bias as a cause of systemic racial inequity?
“ Unfortunately, any new task force will be destined (to repeat early mistakes) unless it explicitly identifies and aggressively challenges racial inequities as one of the most significant barriers to the fair administration of justice.” Re: bipartisan efforts to launch a new National Criminal Justice Commission in 2017 Kristin Henning, (2018) –George Washington Law…
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Transforming Trauma to Health and Healing
Now Accepting Applications Email peecetoday@gmail.com for more information. Who? Opportunity youth- ages 16-24 What? A virtual experience where you will Explore connections between trauma, health and well-being Identify and address barriers to housing and or work Work with others to address individual and system problems that may be blocking success.
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Virus of Bigotry in Youth Justice?
Why the Unexplained Racial Disparities?? Crime Report July 2020 In this moment, our nation is facing a multitude of viruses. We are battling not just COVID-19, but the diseases of racism and injustice. A new report from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, for example, shows that overall, youth incarceration has decreased by almost 60…
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Walk with the wind and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide
Last Open Message From John Lewis to the Next Generation While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used…
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A LIVING DEATH: LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE FOR NONVIOLENT OFFENSES: Why?
The ACLU reports that for 3,278 people, it was nonviolent offenses like stealing a $159 jacket or serving as a middleman in the sale of $10 of marijuana to get food. An estimated 65% of them are Black. https://www.aclu.org/report/living-death-life-without-parole-nonviolent-offenses
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Systemic Reform Requires Conscious, Bold Proaction
NEW TOOLS FROM HUD HELP BUILD EQUITY INTO HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE SYSTEMS https://www.usich.gov/news/new-tools-from-hud-helpbuildequity-into-homelessness-response-systems
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Can people of color be seen and treated as individuals rather than as a collective?
While violence rises in Chicago, why can’t police target violent behavior rather than RACE for arresting and charging people?
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Anguish and Action
“We work to help leaders change their world—and the world needs changing.: https://www.obama.org/anguish-and-action/?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=071820_TownHall_JohnLewis#watch
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