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Hetch Hetchy Redux: An Effort To Turn Back The Environmental Clock, Nancy Unger

History

If San Francisco voters pass Measure F on November 6, the city will conduct an $8 million study on the feasibility, costs, and benefits of draining the 300-foot deep reservoir created by the O’Shaughnessy Dam in 1923. The measure’s proponents see it as a first step in restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley, sister valley to Yosemite, to its natural state. That the measure is even on the ballot is a significant indication of the shift in attitudes towards the ongoing conflict between nature preservation and traditional notions of progress.

Introduction: Sex, Sexuality, And Gender As Useful Categories In Environmental History, Nancy Unger

History

This book is an effort to explain these kinds of extreme gendered divisions and to offer an enriched understanding of the powerful interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender. The synergy produced by that interplay has been significant throughout American history, but it cannot be adequately understood and appreciated as long as those fields are discussed as discrete entities. The fields of gender and environment are growing, but scholars have seldom joined them together in analysis or heeded historian Carolyn Merchant's call that a gendered perspective be added to conceptual frameworks in environmental history.5 They have not offered a …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-U, No. 10, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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The Better News Is:

The Graying Prison Population

El Mundo ya no es Digno

More Solitary

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-T, No. 9, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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¡Just Stop!

Logo Contest

College Guild

Excerpt from the: Agreement to End Hostilities Called For by Prisoners in the Short Corridor of the SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison in CA.

Attica Anniversary Commemoration

Soliciting Holiday Card Design

¡Adelante!

A Call To Integrate Religious Communities Into Practice: The Case Of Sikhs, Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia, Anjali Alimchandani

Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works

Sikhs, an ethnic and religious minority group in the United States, have seen a significant shift in their social location since 9/11. They have experienced harassment and violence beyond race and ethnicity to the visible markers of the religion (e.g., turbans). In this article, we address how counseling psychology is uniquely positioned to work with Sikhs given these circumstances. We provide an overview of Sikh Americans, including specific experiences that may affect treatment such as race-based traumatic injury, identification as a part of a visible religious minority group, and the impact of historic community-level trauma. We discuss recommendations for practitioners …

Simulating Real Lives: Promoting Global Empathy And Interest In Learning Through Simulation Games, Christine Bachen, Pedro F. Hernández-Ramos, Chad Raphael

Communication

In response to an increasingly interdependent world, educators are demonstrating a growing interest in educating for global citizenship. Many definitions of the “good global citizen” value empathy as an especially important disposition for understanding others across national borders and cultural divides. Yet it may be difficult for people to achieve empathy with others who are perceived as psychologically and geographically distant. Can computerized simulation games help foster global empathy and interest in global civic learning? This quasiexperimental classroom study of 301 Northern California high school students in three schools examined the effects of playing REAL LIVES, a simulation game that …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-S, No. 8, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Still Locked Up For Life

On a More Hopeful Note: Prison Population Decline

Program Saved

Survivors Manual Re-released

VSPW -- Calusura or Conversión?

Voices From Inside

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-R, No. 7, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Lower "Crime" Rates, But Some Prisons Grow

Racial Bias in Federal Clemency

Racial Bias in Youth Detention

México Elige Presidente

Crime of the Month

Save LWOP Beneficiaries Program

A Proposal Request For A Native American Task Force On Student Success At Portland State University, Cornel Pewewardy

Global Diversity and Inclusion Publications and Presentations

This is a proposal request for a Native American Task Force on Student Success by the Director of Native American Studies Cornel Pewewardy.

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-Q, No. 6, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Prison Conditions Fightback

Amicus Chrismas Card Competition

San Quentin News

No More Mandatory JLWOP!

Critica México Fallo de la Core Suprema de EU ley SB 1070 de Arizona

"I Enter Into Its Burning": Yvonne Vera's Beautiful Cauldron Of Violence, John C. Hawley

English

Commentators inevitably remark upon Yvonne Vera's prose and upon its startling application to the violent episodes she recounts. Some find it inappropriate, self-conscious, more suited to poetry than to prose. Others (and sometimes the same folks) describe it as by far her strongest suit, wherein descriptive powers overtake narration and plot becomes inevitably amorphous - but lovely. In this essay I wish to analyze why this conflicted response would not have concerned the author and why, in fact, she would have sought to discomfort the reader while bringing pleasure. Many writers before Vera have struggled over the applicability of art …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-P, No. 5, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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¡Unions Help Occupy the 1%!

The Other Death Penalty Project Reluctantly Supports the S.A.F.E. California Act

More Life Without Parole Law

Ordenes de Sujecíon de ICE

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-O, No. 4, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Incarceration Nation

Cruel and Dehumanizing

Prison Rape

Crime of the Month

Se Celebra Día del Niño

Voices From Inside

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-N, No. 3, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Who's The Worst of the Worst?

Valley State Prison Conversion

Eliminate Juvenile Life Without

Alumnos Indocumentados

Voices From Inside

LifeLines Poetry Competition 2012

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-M, No. 2, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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The Nation in Lockdown

Long Sentences Mean

Victory Against Torture

In Memoriam

We Stand in Solidarity With All Those Celebrating Black History

Licencias para Indocumentados en Limbo

Prison Health News Asks You To:

Out Of Reach: The Impact Of Changes In Rent Supplement:Summ, Gerard Doyle, Tanya Lalor

Reports

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When The Abyss Looks Back: Treatments Of Human Trafficking In Superhero Comic Books., Bond Benton, Daniela Peterka-Benton

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Superhero comic book characters have historically engaged issues of social concern. From Superman’s opposition to the Ku Klux Klan in 1947 (Bowers, 2011) to Captain America’s acceptance of a gay soldier in 1982 (Witt, Sherry, & Marcus, 1995) to Batman’s stance against landmines in 1996 (O’Neil, 1996), stories involving superheroes have frequently demonstrated a developed social awareness on national and international problems. Given that the audience for superhero characters is often composed of young people, this engagement has served as a vehicle for raising understanding of issues and as tool for encouraging activism on the part of readers (McAllister, 1992; …

The Paradox Of Political Power: Post-Racialism, Equal Protection, And Democracy, William M. Carter Jr.

Articles

Racial minorities have achieved unparalleled electoral success in recent years. Simultaneously, they have continued to rank at or near the bottom in terms of health, wealth, income, education, and the effects of the criminal justice system. Social conservatives, including those on the Supreme Court, have latched onto evidence of isolated electoral success as proof of “post-racialism,” while ignoring the evidence of continued disparities for the vast majority of people of color.

This Essay will examine the tension between the Court's conservatives' repeated calls for minorities to achieve their goals through the political process and the Supreme Court's increasingly restrictive "colorblind" …

The Social Dimensions Of Sustainability And Change In Diversified Farming Systems, Christopher M. Bacon, Christy Getz, Sibella Kraus, Maywa Montenegro, Kaelin Holland

Environmental Studies and Sciences

Agricultural systems are embedded in wider social-ecological processes that must be considered in any complete discussion of sustainable agriculture. Just as climatic profiles will influence the future viability of crops, institutions, i.e., governance agreements, rural household and community norms, local associations, markets, and agricultural ministries, to name but a few, create the conditions that foster sustainable food systems. Because discussions of agricultural sustainability often overlook the full range of social dimensions, we propose a dual focus on a broad set of criteria, i.e., human health, labor, democratic participation, resiliency, biological and cultural diversity, equity, and ethics, to assess social outcomes, …

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 36-L, No. 1, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

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Struggle to Improve Conditions Goes On

Crime of the Month

To Incarcerated Foreigners

International Day of Solidarity

Just Detention International - JDI

Incremento de Salario en Nuevo México