This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Ray Michalowski* As the great Yankee’s baseball catcher and American philosopher Yogi Berra once … Continue reading
by Tom Bodenheimer* March 24, 2017 marked seven years and one day since the signing of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) into law on March 23, 2010. On that seventh anniversary, House Speaker Paul Ryan abandoned the Republican plan to repeal … Continue reading
by José A. Brandariz, Manuel Maroto, and Cristina Fernández-Bessa* Spanish conservatives have not ever been interested in winning over their political contenders, they are just interested in defeating them. Guillem Martínez, journalist and writer The resurgence of the Catalan independentist … Continue reading
by Janelle Reinelt* Last June I saw Tony Kushner’s epic new play, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. It is directed by Tony Taccone. Since then, I haven’t … Continue reading
Gregory Shank, ed. This issue of Social Justice examines the historical roots of recent forms of domestic spying and the fear campaigns that justify such programs–as well as the wars on crime, drugs, and terror. Authors look at how globalization affects policing … Continue reading
2017 Subscription Rates for Social Justice ISSN: 1043-1578 * Federal I.D.: 94-2438499 Click here to download a pdf version Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order is a quarterly journal, with issues scheduled to appear in April, … Continue reading
by Bill Rolston* With state prisoners in California and detained immigrants in Seattle using the hunger strike as a form of protest, what can we learn from prisoners in Northern Ireland who used hunger and art as weapons of resistance … Continue reading
This post is part of a series on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues. Click here to read more. • • • by Michael J. Lynch, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael A. Long, and Kimberly L. Barrett* We … Continue reading
by Margaret Randall* International Women’s Day, March 8th, is my favorite holiday. Every year I write a brief tribute—to remind my friends and also myself how much women everywhere give to resist oppression and sustain life. Usually I’ve focused on … Continue reading
by Alessandro De Giorgi* The news has not garnered much attention on the national media, yet it is rather striking: for the first time in the last twenty years or so, crime has been rising in the United States for … Continue reading