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CALL for PRESENTATIONS
The President and Executive Board of Justice Studies Association invite
scholars and activists from around the globe to participate in the association's
2012 annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois from Thursday, May 31 to Saturday, June
2.
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To the First 20 folks who register for the 2012 confab
A FREE COPY of David Wieck's memoir
of AGNES BURNS WIECK, activist labor leader
known as "The Mother Jones of Illinois."
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JSA 2012 Fourteenth Annual Conference
THEME:
JUSTICE AND WORK
May 30 - June 1, 2012
Loyola University
Chicago, IL
KIM BOBO OF INTERFAITH WORKER JUSTICE
2012 opening keynote speaker
Kim is the Executive Director and founder of Interfaith Worker Justice, the nation's largest network of people of faith engaging in local and national actions to improve wages, benefits, and conditions for workers, especially those in low-wage economies.
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KEITH MCHENRY
2012 CHOMSKY AWARD RECIPIENT
The Justice Studies Association is happy to award its 2012 Noam Chomsky Award to Keith McHenry – co-founder of the Food Not Bombs social movement. During the 1970s, Keith McHenry began studying painting at Boston University. His anti-nuclear war street art became the subject of an Off Broadway play called Murder Now! and the film, The Sidewalk Sector. At the same time, Keith studied with Howard Zinn and became active with the Clamshell Alliance making several trips to Seabrook, New Hampshire to protest nuclear power.
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Announcing our JSA 2012 Awards
Chomsky
Award
KEITH McHENRY
Open Letter from the
Justice Studies Association (JSA)
to News Corporations,
the American, and Global Public
regarding Glenn Beck’s attacks against
Dr. Frances Fox Piven
January 27, 2011
For the past year, Glenn Beck has directed unwarranted and unprovoked attacks against Dr. Frances Fox Piven, an esteemed, and well-respected public scholar and intellectual. Professor Dr. Piven is also the former president of both the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) and the American Sociological Association (ASA). Glenn Beck has elected to mischaracterize her work, and the work of her late husband, Richard Cloward, and by so doing has placed her life in grave danger through death threats from individuals who simply follow Mr. Beck's unfounded accusations. We urge News Corporations....
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Open Letter of Support
to the People of Tunisia, Egypt,
and Other African and Middle East Nations
Yearning for Democracy,
Freedom of Expression, Rights, Responsibilities, and the Restoration Dignity and Justice
January 28, 2011
In the last couple of days, we have witnessed the direct involvement of the people of Tunisia in taking control of the restoration of their social well being long overdue. By working collaboratively to remove a dictator that repressed their progress for many decades, Tunisians took the lead and gave notice to all dictators in Africa and the Middle East that there is no longer room for repression and oppression. Over many decades, brutal usurpation of power, the manipulation of national resources to form brutal police, and military machines have often been used to force timorous subservience from most citizens. ....
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JSA letter to the Govenor of Arizona
"Dear Governor Brewer:
We, the membership of the Justice Studies Association (JSA), write to you to strongly express our condemnation of Senate Bill 1070 which you signed into law on April 23, 2010."
By criminalizing failure to carry proof of U.S. citizenship or legal status, this punitive, enforcement-only legal measure not only fails to address the issue of unauthorized immigration, it creates other more serious problems...
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Our Annual Noam Chomsky Award for the 2010 conference will be presented to
BRENDA CLUBINE |
Brenda Clubine served 15 years in prison for defending herself against her abusive husband.
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2012
Fourteenth Annual
JSA Conference
"JUSTICE AND WORK"
May 30 - June 1,
2012
Loyola University
Chicago, IL.
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