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	<title>Criminal Justice, Schools, and Research</title>
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		<title>Macalester College Forum on &#8220;The Day After the End of the Schools to Prisons Pipeline&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To employees and associates of the Council on Crime and Justice:
We (Aaron Rosenblum and Jason Rodney) have been interning in the Research Dept. this spring, through our Macalester College class Schools and Prisons, an American Studies course which explores race and class issues and the symbiosis of underfunded schools and a broken corrections system. Our work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=17&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/macalester-college-forum-on-the-day-after-the-end-of-the-schools-to-prisons-pipeline/</link>
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		<title>GCVS/CVL Identity Theft Presentation today 5:00 &#8211; 7:30p</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder that the GCVS/CVL Identity Theft Presentation is today 5:00 &#8211; 7:30pm in the big conference room. The speaker is the Director of the MN Financial Crimes Task Force and this is an excellent presentation!
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		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/gcvscvl-identity-theft-presentation-today-500-730p/</link>
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		<title>Experimental College of the Twin Cities is looking for teachers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Experimental College of the Twin Cities (EXCO) is looking for teachers and facilitators for the summer and fall semesters.  Do you have something to share?  EXCO is a free school initiative that offers classes for anyone to take, all free.  Summer session begins June 15th.
More info and applications to teach are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=15&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/experimental-college-of-the-twin-cities-is-looking-for-teachers/</link>
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		<title>Amy Goodman of &#8220;Democracy Now!&#8221; to Speak</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amy and David Goodman will be in the Twin Cities on Monday April 28 at the St. Joan of Arc Church (4537 3rd Ave. South, Minneapolis).  The time is 6:30PM and tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door.  Amy and David have just written a book titled &#8220;Standing Up to the Madness: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=14&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/amy-goodman-of-democracy-now-to-speak/</link>
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		<title>C-Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Council developed program, &#8220;C-Dreams,&#8221; was featured in an article by  Ebony Ruhland (Research Associate) and Elena Gaarder (Interim Project Director) in the U of M School of Social Work publication CW360. Click here to check out the article!
The article outlines the creation of C-Dreams in response to a Council study examining the needs of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=13&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/c-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Council Finds New President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our New President!
Judge Pamela Alexander grew up in South Minneapolis and graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School.  She began her legal career as a criminal defense attorney with the Legal Rights Center and then moved to the Hennepin County Attorney&#8217;s office as a prosecutor in the Criminal Division.  Since 1983 she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=12&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/council-finds-new-president/</link>
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		<title>Green jobs, not jails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month an increasingly visible movement for &#8220;green-collar jobs&#8221; hosted a historic event in Memphis, commemorating the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The Dream Reborn, a conference reenvisioning King&#8217;s legacy in our current circumstances, was sponsored by Green For All, an environmental justice alliance.  The event glowed with the organization&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=11&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/green-jobs-not-jails/</link>
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		<title>School Ethnography and the Schools to Prisons Pipeline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason and I (Aaron) are currently enrolled in a class at Macalester College titled &#8220;Schools to Prisons.&#8221;  This class investigates the phenomenon that has been deemed the schools to prisons pipeline.  In other words, the structure and function of many schools is now unintentionally (or perhaps in some cases intentionally) channeling our nation&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=10&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/school-ethnography-and-the-schools-to-prisons-pipeline/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out these upcoming events!

Come to the Front Recreation Center in St. Paul for a presentation by St. Paul Parks and Recreation.  Network with organizations in St. Paul including the St. Paul Human Rights Dept., Ramsey County Workforce Solution, Community Stabilizaton Project, Twin Cities Rise, Southern MN Regional Legal Services, and many more.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=9&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/resource-fair/</link>
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		<title>Waking Life Prison Scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the vein of prison/justice system media representations, here&#8217;s an interesting clip from the animated film Waking Life.  There is a monologue from a man in prison detailing his anger with the system and his plans for revenge.  A film world discussion of what being locked up in an institution can do to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ccjresearch.wordpress.com&blog=3150701&post=8&subd=ccjresearch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ccjresearch.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/waking-life-prison-scene/</link>
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