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/

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

On May 2nd, United Way of Greater New Haven will be having it's first Over the Edge fundraiser event!

100 brave participants will be stepping over the edge and rappelling off the AVANGRID building in Orange with the goal of

raising funds to help families thrive!

If you are interested in volunteering, rappelling, sponsoring the event or just interested in knowing more:

https://uwgnh.org/over-the-edge/

Contact:

Maria Gomez

magomez@uwgnh.org

203.691.4223

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The Animal Haven in North Haven recently opened its new cat wing with grant support from the Lillian and Henry Konopacke Fund at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. The wing is part of a larger renovation that brings the shelter up to best practice standards for housing, socialization, training and enrichment of its animals. Improving the psychological and physical comfort of the animals is key to increasing chances for adoption.

Animal Haven is a “no kill” shelter that provides care and temporary homes to more than 400 abandoned and neglected cat and dogs every year. Read more.

Black History Month is first and foremost a weeks-long celebration of the pioneering black Americans who changed the course of our culture and country. 

For white parents, particularly those who don't feel comfortable or prepared to talk with their children about race and racism, the month should also be seen as a timely opportunity to start essential, on-going conversations about racist ideas if they haven't already.

https://mashable-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/mashable.com/article/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-race.amp

Today we are celebrating and honoring, Ta-Nehisi Coates who is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/39QVRXI

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 Van Jones who is an American news commentator, author and a world-class change maker.

#NHHSCelebratesBHM #BHM #NewHaven #HealthyStart #Activist

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

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

Your input is requested. Please Take a Survey of Community Needs!

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

Click here to go to this breif survey: https://buff.ly/2UMERxe ;

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

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/