Justice in August

Overarching Theme: The Path to A More Just Future

Prompt Questions: Throughout our history, people have enacted injustice against each other. How can you rectify these evils to improve the world for future generations?

What would our world look like today if injustice was eradicated years ago?

Visual Prompts:

1.) Pablo Albarenga, Seeds of Resistance

2.) Lucy Nicholson, California Drought From Above

3.) John Edwin Mason, “Photos can show protests’ complexity - or they can perpetuate old lies” (Photography/ Article)

Written Prompts:

1.) New York Times, “Door Busting Drug Raids Leave a Trail of Blood” (Article/ Video)

2.) The Intercept, “Key Falsehoods that Drove Last Year’s Coup in Bolivia”

3.) Council on Foreign Relations, “China’s Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang”

4.) Vice, “After 70 Years of Nuclear Fallout, Will Bikini Atoll Ever Be Safe Again?”

5.) LA Times, “After Missing DACA, she resented her U.S. born siblings. Trump Ruined Her Second Chance”

6.) NPR, “In Their Own Words: How The Americans With Disabilities Act Changed People’s Lives”

Podcast Prompts:

1.) Justice in America

2.) Green Dreamer

3.) Ta-Nehisi Coates - Imagining a New America (On Being)

4.) Tweak the Vote (Radiolab)

5.) Nina Lakhani (The Guardian), “The Scandal of Millions of Americans Deprived of Running Water”

Song Prompts:

1.) Amber Mark, “My People”

2.) Rina Sawayama, “Fuck This World (Interlude)”

3.) Emily Wells, “Hymn for a New World”

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