Present: Jason Abbott, Samantha Dolat, Jennifer Chevinsky, Nikki Rubin, Romana Heider, Dan Lin, Alana, Sharielle Applewhite, Adan Abbey, Hanna Etim-Gorst, Erinn Arbelaez, Stephanie Guirand, Allison Lex, Amanda Ploch, Simon Haley, Kara O'Brien, Rafael Pérez-Segura, Pronoma Srivastava, Shefali Mamak
Hoodies-Money must be in by Monday at UNESCO Office-$28.52
Art and Justice event: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Art and Justice event: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
- meet on Friday at 3 PM in the Office of the UNESCO Chair
- Amanda, Hannah, Nikki, Erinn, Romana, Rafael, Kara, Shefali, Pronoma
- leave by 3 PM Friday
- sample workshop online
- highly thought of
- some reservations on being out-of-date
- Many view points represented
- Hamas
- Shown very favorably
- doesn't address voting in of Hamas
- will we be able to handle being apolitical on topic?
- Erinn explains background behind Gaza-Israel video screening event
- Jenn offers idea of seeing Israeli-Palestinian children together
- Everyone please take a look at the website: www.onevoicemovement.org
- Israeli and Palestinian youth leaders coming Feb 28th-March 5th
- member leader for promises/onevoice movement=Erinn
- advertising
- advertise really well
- emphasize humanitarian issue
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
- Romana brings up idea of panel discussions
- make fact oriented
- Adan
- Facts not agreed on by all sides
Daniel Lin and Barnaba Institute
- Asking to have a student endorse a play about Prostitution
- Around April 24th (but not the 24th)
- Institute would pay for space and plane ticket, but not necessarily for rooms at a hotel
- Literacy Around the World-definite workshop for this semester
- Ideas
- consistently talk about UNUDHR, Convention on the Rigths of the Child
- awareness->acceptance->understand->involvement/action (giving options, what you can do)
- be very specific
- child labor
- 3 facilitators
- Base workshops on Millennium Development Goals
- End Poverty and hunger
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
- Universal Education
- Gender Equality
- Environmental Sustainability
- Global Partnerships
- Child Health
- Maternal Health
- Doing bible study at Correctional Facility near UConn Depot Campus
- volunteered in South Africa at a detention center
- has learned a lot about inmate's lives
- Recidivism
- real problem, many get out and come back again
- no better or worse off than when inmates first came in
- people need tools once they get out of prison
- Why do prisoners deserve taxpayer money to learn when our own schools don't have enough money?
- very difficult question
- answer unclear
- Discussion
- Sharielle- Who people hang around with once out of prison has a lot to do with how much chance they have of going back
- to answer about who deserves taxpayer money, it should be who wants it more.
- idea-network of organizations that specialize in hiring back people who were imprisoned or wrongfully accused of something
- has relative that has had to deal with the stigma of going to jail now that he's out
- Hannah
- prisoners dynamic in personalities
- asks: more expensive to keep people in jail than to educate them?
- Jail per capita costs $22,000, education costs will pay themselves back over and over again
- Amanda
- no continuity between prison system and transition to society
- Would choose to educate the person in prison because person in jail to begin with because law abiding student would generally have a better chance to figure stuff out
- Dan
- clarification-recidivism means going back to jail, not necessarily back to crime
- Adan
- American prisons a shame
- US holds self to higher standards
- people come back many times worse than before.
- Shefali
- many prisoners sometimes encouraged to do crime again out of desperation
- change is difficult
- Simon
- Asks: What actually happens when people get released?
- Amanda answers: Programs about only a year long, not enough time for most people to adapt again
- Ask: Government incentives to have companies rehire people who have proved themselves out of prison
- Amanda answer: doesn't really know, but it seems like a good idea.
- there actually is a bakery that hires many ex-convicts who actually stay there
- important to recognize when ex-convicts are really willing to make change their ways
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