Posts Tagged Justice

By Jos Truitt • 12 years ago

What do you mean when you say justice?

I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.

I’ve never been so hungry that i willed hunger,

Never so angry as to want a gun over a pen.

-Suheir Hammad, First Writing Since

I realized something Sunday night when the news of Osama bin Laden’s assassination broke and as I watched the reaction unfold: when I say “justice” I mean something very different than when many other people say the word. I heard about “justice” in President Obama’s speech, on Facebook and Twitter, in the news, in the partying crowd outside the White House.

That’s not what I call justice. I don’t see justice in violence responding to violence. I see vengeance. I don’t see justice in ...

I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.

I’ve never been so hungry that i willed hunger,

Never so angry as to want a gun over a pen.

-Suheir Hammad, First Writing ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Kiran Bedi on unorthodox approaches to justice

Here’s another one of my favorite talks from last week’s TEDWomen. Kiran Bedi managed one of the country’s toughest prisons before becoming Director General of the Indian Police Service. She’s an incredible trailblazer and an advocate for the power of meditation and education.

Here’s another one of my favorite talks from last week’s TEDWomen. Kiran Bedi managed one of the country’s toughest prisons before becoming Director General of the Indian Police Service. She’s an incredible trailblazer and an advocate for ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Kiran Bedi on unorthodox approaches to justice

Here’s another one of my favorite talks from last week’s TEDWomen. Kiran Bedi managed one of the country’s toughest prisons before becoming Director General of the Indian Police Service. She’s an incredible trailblazer and an advocate for the power of meditation and education.

Here’s another one of my favorite talks from last week’s TEDWomen. Kiran Bedi managed one of the country’s toughest prisons before becoming Director General of the Indian Police Service. She’s an incredible trailblazer and an advocate for ...
By Lori Adelman • 13 years ago

Justice for Hurricane Katrina Victims

Not that you’d know it from the recent news cycle, but Hurricane Katrina affected more than just George Bush and Kanye West.

While the Hurricane may have provided an opportunity for these two wealthy men to discuss who does or does not care about black people, or what their political and social legacies will be, it served quite a different function for a few other folks: thousands of people lost their homes, their belongings, their families, and sometimes their lives as a result of the disaster.

The victims of Hurricane Katrina deserve justice, and this week brought them one step closer. As reported by The Root and the Chicago Tribune, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and Housing and Urban Development ...

Not that you’d know it from the recent news cycle, but Hurricane Katrina affected more than just George Bush and Kanye West.

While the Hurricane may have provided an opportunity for these two wealthy men to

By Courtney • 13 years ago

Afghani women resorting to immolation in increased numbers

According to the New York Times, self-immolation is on the rise among women in Afghanistan:

It is shameful here to admit to troubles at home, and mental illness often goes undiagnosed or untreated…The choices for Afghan women are extraordinarily restricted: Their family is their fate. There is little chance for education, little choice about whom a woman marries, no choice at all about her role in her own house. Her primary job is to serve her husband’s family. Outside that world, she is an outcast.

Many of the women who are burning themselves are trying to escape violence inflicted on them by husbands and in-laws. Sometimes, the burnings themselves are even purported to be suicide attempts when they are actually homicidal ...

According to the New York Times, self-immolation is on the rise among women in Afghanistan:

It is shameful here to admit to troubles at home, and mental illness often goes undiagnosed or untreated…The choices for Afghan women ...
By Miriam • 13 years ago

Help Colorlines celebrate love

Colorlines Editor Kai Wright told readers earlier this month that he wants to celebrate love more at Colorlines. I’m not entirely sure, but I believe it’s in response to the recent barrage of youth suicides.

Either way, I think it’s a fabulous idea. In Kai’s words:

There may be a long road ahead to justice, but surely it begins with everyone doing their best to love themselves and one another.

You can support this effort by sending in ideas for posts celebrating love. Instructions here.

In the latest celebrating love post, Colorlines highlighted the incredible journey of Mia Mingus and Stacey Millburn, two queer disabled diasporic Korean women of color who are moving from their respective Southern ...

Colorlines Editor Kai Wright told readers earlier this month that he wants to celebrate love more at Colorlines. I’m not entirely sure, but I believe it’s in response to the recent barrage of youth ...
By Lori Adelman • 13 years ago

[Don’t] Stop Snitchin’

This week, News One is reporting that a community group comprising mostly males and calling themselves the “Detroit 300″ has been mobilizing within their community to help catch rape suspects. Interestingly, to do so they have been actively countering the dominant community creed (and now meme) to “stop snitching” to police on community residents who are known to be guilty of a crime. From the article:

“A community group known as ‘Detroit 300′ is being credited for helping police track down 3 teens accused of raping a 90-year-old woman.  Now they’re pledging to take back the streets and continue to patrol the neighborhoods…

In times where the ‘Stop Snitching’ creed controls Black neighborhoods all across the country, this group is helping to bring ...

This week, News One is reporting that a community group comprising mostly males and calling themselves the “Detroit 300″ has been mobilizing within their community to help catch rape suspects. Interestingly, to do so they have been ...
By Courtney • 13 years ago

Will Bangladesh acknowledge its rape history?

The NYT reports: “As the 40th anniversary of the 1971 war approaches, the Bangladeshi government has set up an International Crimes Tribunal to investigate the atrocities of that era. But human rights advocates and lawyers fear that the mass rapes and killings of women will not be adequately addressed.”

This particular site and time of rape being used rampantly as a war crime was first brought to many Western feminists’ attention through Susan Brownmiller’s 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, in which she wrote that 200,000 women–at the least–and more likely up to 400,000 women had been raped during the 1971 war.

There are many events planned for the 40th anniversary commemoration, but it’s still unclear if ...

The NYT reports: “As the 40th anniversary of the 1971 war approaches, the Bangladeshi government has set up an International Crimes Tribunal to investigate the atrocities of that era. But human rights advocates and lawyers fear ...

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