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August 2018
From Prison to College Degrees
FROM PRISONS TO COLLEGE DEGREES: A Conversation on Incarceration and the Importance of Higher Education Join us at The Fortune Society in Long Island City on Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 6 pm for an insightful discussion on the challenges and triumphs faced by individuals with justice histories who are pursuing advanced degrees. Ronald Day, Associate Vice President of Fortune's I-CAN program, and current doctoral candidate, will lead the conversation with Kandra Clark (Fortune's Strategic Partnerships Liaison and Senior Grant Writer), Brittany Smith…
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Advanced Peacemaking Circles with Kay Pranis
Advanced Peacemaking Circles with Kay Pranis September 7th-9th 9:30am - 5:00pm - All three days required Columbia School of Social Work This advanced peacemaking circle training is for people who are currently or have recently been using peacemaking circles in the work. ABOUT PEACEMAKING CIRCLES The Peacemaking Circle training is an opportunity for anyone interested in conflict resolution, community building or restorative justice to increase their skills and knowledge for having difficult conversations. The peacemaking circle is a dialogue process…
Find out more »Accounting for Harm
Accounting for Harm: Building Connections in Accounting for Individual, Institutional and Ideological Harm Friday September 7th, 2018 – 6:30pm Columbia School of Social Work 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027 Speakers Piper Anderson, Create Forward Kassandra Frederique, Drug Policy Alliance Sethu Nair, Hidden Water / CCCR Kay Pranis, Restorative Justice Trainer Cameron Rasmussen, Center for Justice (moderator) Register here: accountingforharm.eventbrite.com ** This event is free and open to the public **
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A Question of Compassion: Parole for People Aging in Prison
by Vera Institute of Justice and Release Aging People in Prison: RAPP Campaign Although New York State’s prison population is shrinking overall, the number of elderly people incarcerated is growing rapidly. Now, approximately two out of ten people incarcerated in New York is 50 or older. Many are frail and ill, aging in a prison system that is not equipped to serve as a nursing home or a hospice facility. On September 12, we invite you to join the…
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Come Register To Vote!
Where: The Back Patio Area at Hour Children’s Main Office 36-11 12th Street LIC, NY 11106 If you have any questions, please call Sarah Murphy at 347-535-3487 or [email protected] CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE
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October 2018
Just Societies Speaker Series: Katherine Franke
The Division of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Columbia University presents the Just Societies Speaker Series, the signature initiative of Dean Fredrick Harris. The second event of the Fall 2018 semester will feature Katherine Franke, Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Columbia University Professor Franke's lecture is entitled "Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition" and will take place in the World Room on the second floor of Columbia's Journalism School (Pulitzer Hall)…
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What Does Justice Look Like?: A Celebration of the Arts and Social Justice
What Does Justice Look Like?: A Celebration of the Arts and Social Justice Break out of your comfort zone and stretch your imagination to envision new ways of thinking about justice Join us in commemorating the work of the inaugural cohort of the June Jordan Fellowship and in celebrating arts organizations from around the city who are engaged in social justice work. The event will highlight art by the June Jordan Fellows and participants of their workshops, in addition…
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Reimagining Prison
Join the Vera Institute of Justice and staff and residents of the TRUE unit at Cheshire Correctional Institution in Connecticut to Reimagine Prison in the United States. Today, life in America’s prisons is dismal and not productive, and the brunt of these conditions fall on people of color and those who are socially and economically disadvantaged—in large part, the result of their systemic and historic social exclusion from much of American society. To remedy this, our nation must reckon with…
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