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Education is Transformation! Listening to the Voices of Justice-Involved Students Changing lives, developing leaders, building communities Half-Day Symposium Where: Columbia Law School, Case Lounge, 435 W. 116th Street, New York, NY 10027 Date: Friday, October 17, 2014 Time: 12pm-4pm RSVP HERE  Education is one of the most powerful ways that justice-involved youth and adults can shift the script and take back our lives. In an era of mass incarceration, lack of educational access is a key factor in our nation’s…

Over the past twenty years a vast public negotiation has taken place over the causes of, and responsibility for, disease. For the most part this discussion has flown under the radar of doctors, historians and public health professionals. To the extent they have participated, professionals and scholars have been called in as “experts,” as witnesses, to be either listened to, or rejected, by juries and judges. This talk will look at a number of cases over the course of the…

Is Health a Human Right? The European Perspective In this talk, Panayotis Yatagantzidis will present tentative definitions of the concept of human rights as delineated in different schools of thought and will define a constitutional cartography of the right to health in nations-members of the European Union. From within that perspective, he will examine the international protection provided by the Treaty of the EU and the European Declaration of Human Rights and will analyze the existing international legal discourse. Yatagantzidis will locate…

Please join the African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies for IN PLAIN SIGHT Towards Engendering the Fight for Racial Justice in the 21st Century WHY ARE WOMEN OF COLOR: KILLED BY STATE VIOLENCE, but their names, faces and stories unknown? EXPERIENCING PRIVATE VIOLENCE, but silenced by community politics? OVER-REPRESENTED IN THE PRISON SYSTEM, but considered outside the fight against the New Jim Crow? MORE DEEPLY IMPACTED BY THE RECESSION, but not represented in…

The Justice Forum – Reimagining Justice: Narratives of Inclusion How do we change the current criminal justice system, one defined by mass incarceration, a paradigm of punishment, and racial discrimination? Changing how we achieve justice through policing, courts, jails, prisons and reentry must include changing the public narrative about people who become involved with the criminal justice system. We must move away from the current narratives that pathologize people and their behavior and provides little consideration for the current and…

Youth, Media and Educational Justice: Building Community Through Collaborative Inquiry – Justice Teaching Roundtable Series Tuesday November 18th, 2014 – 3–5pmTeachers College, Russell Hall Rm 305 Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Associate Professor of English Education Teachers CollegeLalitha Vasudevan, Associate Professor of Technology and Education, Teachers CollegeYouth, Media, and Educational Justiceymej.orgFor the past three years (2011-2014), members of the Youth, Media, and EducationalJustice (YMEJ) project have been engaged in the exploration of education andwellbeing in the lives of youth who are involved with…

**Tickets for this event have sold out. Should any seats become available, they will be available for purchase through the Miller Theatre Box Office the day of the show until 4pm** On November 20th, join the Center for Justice at Columbia University and our university and community partners from across New York City for a performance of Bryonn Bain’s Lyrics from Lockdown.  This powerful one man show exposing racial profiling and wrongful incarceration will be followed by a discussion inspired by Harry Belafonte about…