A criminal justice webinar on June 16 will address the economic impact of incarceration and of having a criminal record on prisoners, parolees, and their families. The panel will include Maurice Q. Jones, general manager of People Advancing Reintegration (PAR).
All by Judith Trustone
Rage, fear, and the 2020 election
I am afraid, very afraid.
Can you breathe now?
NO MORE we say, NO MORE, speaking as Planetarians not just Americans, thrusting feet from our necks with a roar of NO MORE in a bloody rebirth of a possibility for America to at last become the dream awakened, to finally remove the foot from its collective, administrative, racist neck.
Kindness at noon
Kindness at Noon (KAN) grew out of a homework assignment in one of the creative writing classes I teach in prisons. People behind bars have adopted this exercise as an anti-violence technique and use it as an alternative to conflict.
Calling for Kindness in the Face of Hatred
The voice on the phone was furious. Atta Arghandiwal, Co-Director of the Swarthmore-based Global Kindness Revolution, was reacting to President Trump’s recent rant about how he could end the war in Afghanistan by bombing the country into oblivion, killing 10 million people…but he just “didn’t feel like it!”
Arrogant blustering. Obsession with vengeance, no matter the cost. A bloodthirsty cruelty. The relentless demand for others to join him in his delusional, dangerous world. No, it wasn’t a day in the White House, but an evening with Captain Ahab at Hedgerow Theatre where I experienced a remarkable production of Moby-Dick.