Raising Awareness - 13th

N.S.

Find some examples of music, musicians and music videos serving successfully to raise awareness to political issues. Post them to your blog.

• Wyclef Returns Home - Wyclef Jean has long been actively involved in supporting Haiti.
•  Brother Ali Occupies Homes - Brother Ali is kind of like a brother to all, which is why he volunteered to help impede officials in evicting the Cruz family, a family that he didn't even know, earlier this year. 
• Joan Baez Protests Vietnam - Joan Baez has a long history of activism, and like many others, she voiced her opposition to the Vietnam War in her music. But unlike many others, she also sacrificed her freedom in protest. 

DOCUMENTARIES + BOOKS + WEBSITES

 • The House I Live In—www.TheHouseILiveIn.org 

• Broken on All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice—www.brokenonallsides.com 

• Rikers: An American Jail—rikersfilm.org YOUTH FOCUS:

 • TIME: The Kalief Browder Story—series on Netflix • Young Kids, Hard Time (45 min.)—www.msnbc.com

 • Children Behind Bars: American Youth Violence (46 min.)—www.msnbc.com 

• Children in Prison: Locked Up for Life (55 min.)—www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLrlajvhUaQ 

• Alone: Teens in Solitary Confinement (22 min.)—www.csgjuscecenter.org/youth/publications/alone-teens-in-solitaryconfinement WOMEN FOCUS: 

• “A Nation of Women Behind Bars” 20/20 (30 min.)—http://abc.go.com/shows/2020/listing/2015-02/27-2020-022715-a-nationof-women-behind-bars-a-dianesawyer-hidden-america-special

 • Women Behind Bars (30 min.)—www.aljazeera.com/programmes/faultlines/2013/09/women-behind-bars201393010326721994.html

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—Alexander, Michelle. 2012. 

• Just Mercy—Stevenson, Bryan. 2014 

• Are Prisons Obsolete?—Davis, Angela Y. New York: Seven Stories, 2003.

 • The Growth of Incarceration in the United States—Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration, et al. National Academic Press, 2014. 

• The Collapse of American Criminal Justice—Stuntz, William J. 2013

. • Arrested Justice Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation—Richie, Beth. 2012. 

• The Justice Imperative: How Hyper-incarceration Has Hijacked the American Dream: A Collaborative Examination of Connecticut's Criminal Justice and Corrections System—Moran, Brian E, 2014.

 • Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: An Organizing Guide—Hunter, Daniel, and Michelle Alexander, Veterans of Hope Project, 2015.

 • Monster—Myers, Walter Dean. 1999. (Juvenile Fiction novel) 

• Campaign for Youth Justice: www.campaignforyouthjustice.org

 • The Sentencing Project: www.sentencingproject.org

• Juvenile Justice Information Exchange: www.jjie.org

 • Free America (John Legend’s Org): www.letsfreeamerica.org

 • Just Leadership USA: www.justleadershipusa.org