Last Friday, college students gathered on Boston Common with megaphones and chalkboard signs, in a fledgling attempt to form a statewide student movement advocating reform of Massachusetts’ Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system.
April 2008
Students for Correcting Corrections
Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008
Students and Youth Rally for CORI Reform
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008
Students from a dozen area schools and universities demonstrated for Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) reform on Friday, April 11th at the brewer fountain outside of Park Street station.
An Open Letter from Students for CORI Reform
www.CORIspondence.org
CORI Reform Now!
Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008
Video by Students for CORI Reform. Visit www.CORIspondence.org
BWA in Memphis, TN - Green Jobs Conference
Posted Sunday, April 6, 2008
Commemorating 40 years since Dr. King’s assassination, BWA members attended the Dream Reborn Conference in Memphis, Tennessee. Hosted by Green For All, BWA members joined activists and organizers from across the country to build strategies to leverage new jobs for people of color in the burgeoning green economy.
Dr. King’s Legacy, Green Jobs and the BWA
Posted Friday, April 4, 2008
Thought Piece by BWA Staff, Aaron Tanaka in PeaceWork Magazine
Seeking Work and Dignity King’s “Second Phase”
“America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.” (Dr. King, 1967)
