Stop Solitary CT’s website says the replica will allow those who visit to “experience the horror, isolation, and dehumanization that is solitary confinement.” It will be in the lobby of the Capitol until March 4.

Members of Stop Solitary CT argue that increased isolation in prisons may achieve the very opposite goal of rehabilitating inmates.

“Correction means to correct something. But this is not correction, this is torture,” said James Tillman, who was wrongly convicted and served more than 18 years in prison for a rape he never committed.

Tillman said three of those years were spent in solitary confinement at the Northern Correctional Institution in Somers...

https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20200225_judiciary_committee_to_tackle_end_to_solitary_confinement/

Today we are celebrating and honoring the late Elijah E. Cummings. He was a #civil rights #activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VvcoMH

It brought riches to Britain and many other European nations; played a major role in enslaving more than 10 million Africans; and created the first global markets in cotton, tobacco and sugar. But now colonialism has been accused of having an even greater influence. It is claimed that it changed the Earth’s very makeup...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/10/colonialism-changed-earth-geology-claim-scientists?

Today we are honoring and celebrating Dr. Esmeralda Simmons, who was the Executive Director of the Center for Law and Social #Justice, a community-based legal institution, based at Medgar Evers College.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

Watch as Dr. Simmons was honored as back in 2014 during Women's History Month: http://bit.ly/2HZy0ZH

Mapped: Visualizing the True Size of Africa

Published February 19, 2020

By Jeff Desjardins

Today we are celebrating and honoring Jesse Williams. Many may know him as Jackson Avery, one of the many good-looking doctors on Shonda Rhimes' long running medical drama Grey's Anatomy, but he is also an #activist.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activists

Learn more: https://n.pr/2wCgAjA

“So, how much money do you guys make if I do that test you’re ordering for me?” This is a question I hear frequently from my patients, and it’s often followed by some variant of, “I thought hospitals were supposed to be nonprofit.”

Patients are understandably confused. They see hospitals consolidating and creating vast medical empires with sophisticated marketing campaigns and sleek digs that resemble luxury hotels. And then there was the headline-grabbing nugget from a Health Affairs study that seven of the 10 most profitable hospitals in America are nonprofit hospitals...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/opinion/nonprofit-hospitals.html?fbclid=IwAR2UM7QKGJ9JlM0ye3os96p1ah6vCzswOyOxEYyVkbVfW1K7k4Lop2OkVgE

Today we are celebrating and honoring Maya Wiley who is is a nationally renowned expert on #racial justice and #equity. She is currently the Senior Vice President for Social Justice at the New School University and the Henry Cohen Professor of Public and Urban Policy at The New School’s Milano School of Management, Policy & Environment.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2VdINHt

Could worker ownership of corporations hit mainstream US politics in 2020? Some Democratic presidential candidates are making that case, reports Jeff Stein in the Washington Post...

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/will-worker-ownership-seize-center-stage-in-us-politics-in-2020/?utm_content=117346822&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-542508

Today we are celebrating and honoring Ashley Jackson who an activist, advocate, fiber artist and program management consultant. She served as the first Alabama State Director for the Human Rights Campaign.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #HumanRights #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/38s8isv

It is hard to make good decisions without good data. From the scale of nationwide efforts to improve education and healthcare to the day-to-day decisions faced by boards and staff of the smallest nonprofit organization, access to data that can be trusted to be true is critical. We trust those who collect our history and data—organize it and make it available—to do their jobs with integrity and a commitment to guarding its accuracy and completeness. We trust them to protect it from those who may have a reason to twist, hide, or destroy facts and stories they do not like...

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-national-archives-in-one-more-case-of-whitewashing-the-historical-record/

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The City of New Haven is seeking input for its 5-Year Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development for 2020-2024. 

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Today we are celebrating and honoring, Shaun King, who is a husband, #father, #activist and journalist. He is also a columnist for The Intercept and the Writer-In-Residence at Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #Activist

Learn more: http://bit.ly/2UIOQnq

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Michelle Alexander, who is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #CivilRights

Learn more about Michelle: http://bit.ly/2SpYW9X

Watch her Ted talk on the future of race in America: http://bit.ly/2UxYTeR

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring, Bryan Stevenson, who is the founder and Executive Director of the #Equal Justice Initiative, a human #rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #EqualRightsJustice

To learn more about Mr. Stevenson: http://bit.ly/2OCYVhE

Today we are #celebrating and #honoring Mari Copeny, who at only 12 years old is already an #activist fighting for the children in Flint, Michigan during the water crisis.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #NewHaven #Flint #LittleMissFlint #BHM

Learn more about Mari at: http://bit.ly/2Ouc4tj

Across many measures, New Zealand appears to be doing well: Its people are relatively healthy, well educated, and socially connected; material standards of living are high; and the unemployment rate is trending downward and is just below 4 percent.

But the country still faces significant challenges: Tens of thousands of children are living in poverty; young people in particular are struggling with their mental health; the rates of family violence are among the worst of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations; and its Māori and Pacific populations face inequalities in health, education, and employment.

When Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern came to power two years ago, she committed to tackling these problems. In May, she and Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced their first Wellbeing Budget, as the national budget. Instead of simply pegging the country’s success to traditional economic measures, like GDP, they want policymaking to be driven by what will make the biggest difference to the well-being of people, their communities, and the environment. It’s been dubbed the “well-being approach.”

More: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/new_zealands_wellbeing_budget_accounts_for_success_based_on_more_than_money?utm_source=Enews&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SSIR_Now&utm_content=Title