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By Jackie Bueno Preface: This article will discuss immigration, a very nuanced and complex topic that’s one of the main reasons for the recent government shutdown. Here’s a link to better understand immigration policies in the U.S. such as DACA: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/16/16879632/daca-bill-durbin-graham
Read MoreBy Jackie Bueno Reading Wilbert Cooper’s “I Was Forced to Fight, Now I'm Learning to Cry” we're all too familiar for me. As a woman of color from both a Latinx and Filipinx background, I recognized the parallels immediately in Cooper’s article between the realitiesBlack men face to establish legitimacy as men in their communities and the realities...
Read MoreWelcome to **active listening,** the UC Berkeley Restorative Justice Center blog! We’re excited to bring you news and information about restorative justice and restorative practice at UC Berkeley, and in other local and global communities. At UCB we see rj and rp as pathways for increasing understanding, promoting social justice goals, and reducing...
Read MoreNote: This is Part 1 of a 3 part series on how campus communities respond to cases of sexual harassment by faculty Julie Shackford-Bradley When a case of sexual harassment occurs on a college campus, two parties are typically identified, the perpetrator also known as the “respondent” or person who has done the harm and the survivor/victim, aka “com...
Read MoreImage Via USA Today By TJ Grayson There is a clear miscommunication between the needs of students and the environments in which they are expected to thrive and succeed. While students of color, including those at UC Berkeley, have known this for years, recent events surrounding the relationship between race, cultural appropriation and the on-campus...
Read MoreImage via Columbia Prison Divest By Annie Gorden "[W]e hope that private prison divestment campaigns, with the abolitionist vision of a larger anti-prison movement, can help us start working towards divesting from the idea that prisons equal justice, which we believe to be fundamentally racist." – Dunni Oduyemi
Read MoreThe New York Times has published a very supportive OP Ed on the use of RJ for campus sexual misconduct cases. The article summarizes: The process lets victims tell their stories in the way they choose and seek the kind of redress that’s most appropriate for them, which has not always been the case in college disciplinary procedures or in the crimin...
Read Moreby Nava Bearson A recent article, Restoring Racial Justice (open as pdf) pushes for greater incorporation of race in restorative justice. Authors Fania Davis, Mikhail Lyubansky, and Mara Schiff assert that up to this point, the restorative justice movement has failed to explicitly address race. Through recognizing race and tackling race related iss...
Read Moreby Nava Bearson Fortunately for all of us, UNICEF has created an online version of the foundational text of RJ in the US, The Little Book of Restorative Justice, by Howard Zehr, founder of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice,Distinguished Professor in the field and prolific writer on an array of RJ-related issues. This version was created in...
Read Moreby Sandra Farzam, UC Berkeley class of 2015 Within the past five years, the Lone Star State’s imprisonment rate has decreased by 10% and crime there has fallen 18%. Texas is leading the way in bipartisan support for liberal prison policies and much of its success has inspired reforms to the prison systems of other states.
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