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*trigger warning: sexual assault* I personally first acquired information about Restorative Justice after a visit back in 2019 to the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, California. On our tour of the center, they showed us a mediation room specifically meant for using restorative justice with incarcerated folks which I believe were the beginnings of the...
Read MoreThis post is the final installment of a seven part series on the history of political action and suppression at UC Berkeley that will be released throughout the spring and summer of 2022. A central political goal of this project was to learn from the failures of past political conflicts. I intended to study political suppression to support future m...
Read MoreThis post is the sixth installment of a seven part series on the history of political action and suppression at UC Berkeley that will be released throughout the spring and summer of 2022. Many current students were taught growing up that if we wanted to earn the same living standards as our parents, we would need to go to college. Unfortunately, wh...
Read MoreThis post is the fifth installment of a seven part series on the history of political action and suppression at UC Berkeley that will be released throughout the spring and summer of 2022. UC Berkeley pays a considerable amount of attention to diversity on campus and the lack thereof, with the Department of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) rep...
Read MoreThis post is the fourth installment of a seven part series on the history of political action and suppression at UC Berkeley that will be released throughout the spring and summer of 2022. Unlike the other subjects of this work, I only learned about the closing of the criminology school through the course of my research. This is noteworthy to me as...
Read MoreThis post is the third installment of a seven part series on the history of political action and suppression at UC Berkeley that will be released throughout the spring and summer of 2022. There is no political controversy from UC Berkeley’s history that is more relevant on campus today than that of People’s Park. Interestingly, though, while most s...
Read MoreWhen we’re responding to a harm restoratively, we begin by asking the following questions: The answers that follow shape the way that we facilitate harm circles and community building activities. Depending on the nature and attributes of the harm, we develop ways for the victim to tell their story, the perpetrator to take accountability, and ultima...
Read MoreThis post is the second installment of a seven part series on the history of political action and suppression at UC Berkeley that will be released throughout the spring and summer of 2022. One aspect of my Berkeley experience that has lived up to expectations is the prevalence of on-campus demonstrations. However, alongside the relatively strong cu...
Read MoreThis post is the first installment of a seven part series on the history of political action and suppression at UC Berkeley that will be released throughout the spring and summer of 2022. UC Berkeley has a reputation for being exceedingly political, as well as dogmatically progressive. Though there is truth to it, I have found this perception to be...
Read MoreThe implementation of Restorative Justice as an alternative to our criminal justice system is difficult to achieve. Our society has become accustomed to the current process and is hesitant to make any changes regardless of how harmful the system may be. Of course, this is due to the narrative and understanding that has been embedded into this count...
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