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As I mentioned in my prior post my family has raised me to appreciate our environment and how important conservation is to maintain our oceans. We have taken many trips that educate us about wild life but when we went to Catalina Island  that stook out to me the most the island is dedicated to science on one side and the other is designated for tourist . The scientific side has enrolled many programs to protect endangered animals and reefs which fascinate me. I had no idea how much danger these species really were

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I decided to choose this article because it truly has a strong message about  environmental conservation.   Our generation has been forced to absorb past generational actions with the excess of burning fossil fuels . We also manufactured too much plastic with out sustainable ways to recycle them hence why we see plastic in the ocean. I truly think that the amount of waste in the ocean is alarming. However I agree with the article that there are better ways to go about trying to fix the situation. Using barriers as a make shift skimmer corrode and ruin eco systems and habitats for species. Yes they collect waste and plastic but at what cause .

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Patches of floating plastic are teeming with life, and cleanup companies hauling trash out of the water risk destroying a marine habitat.

In the northern Pacific Ocean, two sky-blue ships are sailing parallel to one another, several hundred meters apart. Pulled behind them is a giant U-shaped barrier, which almost looks like a fishing net. You could be forgiven for thinking they are trawlers. But they're aiming to catch something else: plastic.

The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) is the world's largest organization working to remove floating plastic from the ocean. Since 2021, the nonprofit has recovered 200 tons of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area between California and Hawaii that is notorious for its floating waste, which is concentrated there by ocean currents. In this area, which is roughly three times the size of France, at least 400 times the amount of plastic extracted by TOC remains, to which more is added every day as it is discarded from boats or flows into the sea from rivers.

To Boyan Slat, the founder of TOC, this cleanup work "signifies an age in which we're starting to correct the problems we ourselves have created." To TOC's critics, the project is costly and inefficient-a distraction from the root of the problem, which is too much plastic being discarded and not enough preventing it from getting into the sea. But more recently, new charges have been laid at the door of TOC: that its cleanup efforts are capturing not only plastic but also sea creatures that live among it. That they are, essentially, disrupting a marine habitat.

According to a new study, floating marine life, known as "neuston," often ends up in the same places as plastic. It's not that the plastic is somehow creating an opportunity for life to emerge, says marine biologist and corresponding author Rebecca Helm, but rather that plastic debris and organisms tend to float up and clump together in water, like cereal in a bowl. Add to this wind and swirling ocean currents, which bring plastic and neuston in from afar, and "patches" form.

Back in 2019, a rare occurrence allowed Helm, who is an assistant professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, to study the contents of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A sailing crew accompanied long-distance swimmer Benoît Lecomte as he swam right through the patch. Behind them they towed a small net along the surface of the water every day to take samples of floating marine life and plastic debris. They did the same in the periphery and outside the patch for comparison. They then photographed 22 of these samples.

Working with colleagues at the University of Hull in the UK, Helm then set about analyzing them, using image-processing software to flag different kinds of neustonic species and plastic debris in the photos. The team found that concentrations of both plastic and neuston were higher inside the patch than outside. Jellyfish-like species known as by-the-wind sailors and blue buttons were particularly visible. So too were violet snails.

It was far from a perfect method. Twenty-two photos is not a lot, and an examination of the actual samples rather than pictures of them would have been more rigorous. Plus, using "surface tows" to sample the ocean's contents "is an imperfect art," says Helm. Sometimes the net bounces above the waves, other times it goes below, missing some water and the plastic and organisms floating in it. But, she adds, it's pretty clear from the photos that there's a lot of neuston present in the garbage patch.

Helm has not shied away from publicly criticizing TOC, pointing out that the nets it uses to collect plastic could inadvertently trap neuston. Many species are not capable of swimming. By-the-wind sailors, for example, have a small stiff sail that sticks out of the water to catch the wind, while blue buttons and violet snails rely on currents to drift through the ocean. They are small creatures, but so are the meshes in the nets. And if neustonic species were killed in large numbers, it could have an impact on the turtles, fish, seabirds, and other animals that eat them.

TOC says it is well aware of the potential harm to marine life and that it has adapted the design of its plastic-catcher in recent years. The U-shaped barrier that guides the plastic into a retention zone at its far end has a net that is 3 meters deep below the surface, and it moves slowly through the water to allow mobile species to swim away. There are lights and acoustic deterrents, underwater cameras to detect protected species such as sea turtles, and escape hatches on the underside of the nets for animals that get caught. Before hoisting the nets aboard, the crew leaves them in the water for up to an hour to give animals time to escape. Nonetheless, fish, small sharks, mollusks, and sea turtles have been caught accidentally, although they make up a tiny fraction of the catch weight compared to plastic, TOC says.

In addition to collecting plastic, TOC conducts its own ocean research, as well as environmental impact assessments that determine and describe the potential damage of the cleanups. But as a private player operating in international waters where few rules apply, TOC is not required to publish these. "We do much more than just clean, which is difficult enough. We also actively contribute to the understanding of an ecosystem that we barely know," says Matthias Egger, whose role is to conduct research that helps TOC engineers further develop and scale up its cleanup system. In recent years, neuston have become a particular focus.

Egger and his team have been sampling the surface water in front of and behind the cleanup system on a weekly basis to compare the composition of neuston, to understand which species to look out for, what effect the cleanup system has, and whether there are seasonal differences in how many neuston are present. The data is currently being evaluated and is due to be published this year. "But for the initial results, we are really happy to see very little impact," says Egger.

Egger stresses that TOC wants to make sure its plastic-cleaning efforts are helping marine life, not harming it. But it's more complicated than simply trying to minimize the amount of marine life taken out of the ocean along with plastic, he says. If crustaceans or sea anemones from other regions cling to plastic debris and hitch a ride to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, they could feed on neuston there. Is it then right or wrong to remove these invaders, who may be disrupting the local ecosystem? "There is always marine life associated with the plastic," says Egger. "But very often, it's marine life that does not belong there, because the plastic does not belong there."

A study published in mid-April offers some clues as to which traveling species could pose a problem. Researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center examined 105 pieces of plastic debris they had obtained in frozen form from TOC. They found traces of species normally found in coastal waters that had used floating plastic as rafts and ended up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch-in particular nets, ropes, buoys, boxes, and cylindrical eel traps from the fishing industry. Some species also appeared to reproduce in their new offshore home. For example, some shrimp-like amphipods were carrying eggs in their brood pouches.

This isn't surprising, says Martin Thiel, a professor of marine biology at the Catholic University of the North in Chile. Marine organisms have been found colonizing all sorts of floating materials in the ocean, including volcanic pumice, seaweeds, and wood, at least until these items start to degrade and sink. Whether it's organisms that settle on more durable plastic debris or that float at the surface next to it, Thiel says that they can't simply be separated from plastic. "What's out there, we better leave it in peace, because by removing it, we may do more harm," he says.

Lanna Cheng, research scientist emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, is somewhat less concerned. Sometimes neuston are floating among plastic, sometimes not. Some neuston are able to swim up and down. And storms can come along and mix things up. Because neuston aggregations appear to be so patchy, accidental catches would likely not significantly affect their populations, she says. And because TOC invests so much time and resources in offshore trips, she welcomes the organization's contribution to science by offering marine biologists like her opportunities to collect samples. "The surface community [of marine life] is a community that was hardly studied until plastic pollution became a problem. Part of the reason was that there was very little economic value," she says. Cheng herself has spent her career studying insects that have evolved to literally walk on the open ocean and survive.

Helm, however, remains critical, in part because she believes that studies should first show that there is no impact on neuston, before cleanups are carried out. "If they really do the work and demonstrate that their efforts have no impact on ocean surface life, then I will be excited to see that they took the criticism and made changes," she says. One change crucial to neustonic species was made recently. In May 2023, TOC more than doubled the length of its net barrier, which now extends to 1,750 meters. As part of the upgrade, the mesh size of the nets in the retention zone, where plastic is held before being hoisted onto the ships, has been increased from 10 to 50 millimeters square. This should allow very small creatures like blue buttons and violet snails to pass through the nets, but by-the-wind sailors, for example, can grow larger than this. However, increase the mesh size any more than this, and pieces of debris could start to seep through.

The two sky-blue ships are currently cruising across the Great Pacific Garbage Patch again, testing the updated barrier in the hope that they can collect more plastic per trip. Ridding the open ocean of plastic remains a Sisyphean task. As more plastic enters the patch, and scientists learn more about the creatures living there, TOC still has many obstacles to overcome before it can scale up its operations. "Our purpose is to help those organisms out there, but you need to make sure that the way you help is actually helping them," says Egger. "And that's what we're trying to figure out."
Updated 5-11-2023 10:30 am BST: Lanna Cheng's affiliation was clarified.

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Patches of floating plastic are teeming with life, and cleanup companies hauling trash out of the water risk destroying a marine habitat.

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Resource, Current Movement - Jacob Wolski

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Here is a link from a movement that was started in Australia by students fighting for awareness about climate change. Students from all over the world are striking from school to demand politicians to take climate change and our future seriously. This resonated with me because I think it is important for people in my generation to take a stand because we are the future. Whatever happens now is what will happen in our future, so we need to stand up for our generation and the generations after us. Climate change is a huge issue and always has been an issue but ultimately, I believe the only way to save our planet is to get through to big corporations who are hurting the environment.

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We are students from every corner of Australia. One thing unites us. Concern for the future of our planet.

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When I was younger, my family and I would always participate in something called "light the night." It was a fundraiser for those who have suffered from Leukemia. My mom's best friend had passed away from Leukemia when they were in college, so it was something that my mom really connected with. I would go door to door selling chocolate bars every day after school. I would sell chocolate bars for $1 each. I actually had a really fun time doing it. Every dollar that I made would be donated to research and to people who were suffering. At the end of the year, they had a giant party at the park for everyone who wanted to support. It was truly amazing to see how many people were at the fundraiser showing support and I felt good just to be there. There were people who had close family suffering from leukemia and also people who didn't know anyone but just wanted to be there. It really is amazing what brings people together to make a change in the world. Since the first year, I had asked my mom to participate in the chocolate selling every year after that because of how amazing it felt to do something good for the community.

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Many times we don't realize but we get to express our own way of thinking. We get to react to a way we feel or react to an action. Many times we see this a way we get to interpret our surroundings. For example, many times we don't notice the sound that are part of our daily life and how they eacdt have an impact in our way to live. We also don't realize the way photographs are interpreted in our lives and how the first in started.

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This quote by Saidiya Hartman stood out to me for many reasons. This quote shows that the history books often remember groups of people inaccurately. In this quote young black women are said to be remembered in a negative light and only for the troubles they had. Saidiya Hartman is angered that we do not celebrate the contributions and profound impact many black women have made on our society.
Question: Why does society try to alter the way we remember certain groups of people?

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A time I took action was when I walked in a 20 mile walk for hunger. I did this with my school and there were thousands of people walking in this fundraiser. It was a great event because it brought the community together and raised money for an often overshadowed topic: food insecurity. I learned a lot about the problems many people face regarding accessibility to food. I was able to share this information with friends and family. Most importantly I raised money for the cause and took action.

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Personal Anecdote/Connection - Adonis Archer

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A personal anecdote of mine is when I decided to join in during the Tucson All Souls Procession that is held during the first weekend of November. This has become a local tradition and is more known as the Dia De Los Muertos. The gathering is a celebration of life, and people gather to remember the loved ones they have lost. This tradition has been happening for over 30 years in downtown Tucson. The experience is one of mixed emotions because it can be sad, joyful, and exciting. You feel a real connection with your community because you all have one thing in common, loss. The Tucson culture really shines through with the food, fashion, art, music, and dancing. The procession is something I plan to attend every year.

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Discover authentic Tucson and the freedom to be yourself. Enjoy " Día de Los Muertos - A Celebration of Life," by Tim Vanderpool, a story about a Tucson tradition with south-of-the-border roots and the cross-section of revelers it attracts during All Souls Procession every year. People show up to experience the procession in countless ways, in street clothes or fully in costume. Faces painted or just there to witness. A pipe-and-drum band, sporting a likely unique combination of kilts and Calavera face-paint, performing "Amazing Grace." A man walking down the street in a suit, a shrine contained within a backpack following him.

A group might be walking for a deceased co-worker or for an endangered animal. If you're feeling loss, this is an opportunity to join those feeling it as well. That isn't to say there isn't a celebration involved as well and that's seen best in the finale of the Procession, held on the west side of Tucson's downtown area, next to the Mercado San Agustin and basically the spiritual home of our city. Performance art group Flam Chen lit up the night sky with flames and acrobatics, with over 100 dancers, drummers, and musicians filling the stage and the air above it. Then, as the contents of the urn are set ablaze, the messages and thoughts it once contained rise up as well, with a crane lifting the urn 30 feet up for all to see.

The procession comes to an end, with hugs, tears, and prayers. In a few months, the preparations will begin again to create another year of experiences that just can't happen anywhere else but on the streets of Tucson in early November.

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Tucson's Dia de Los Muertos-inspired event, which has been a beloved community-powered fixture of our fall calendar since 1990, is looking forward to coming back after the pandemic altered the course of humanity for over a year now.

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This article shows 6 steps to "raise a feminist", and what it really shows is a guide on how to teach respect towards women. Education is a very important part of our development as humans and learning to respect others at home is essential. There is this movement going on in social media that talks about what you should teach your kids for them to grow up being respectful and aware of what it's like to be a women in our society. This movement is very meaningful to me, specially coming from one of the most dangerous countries to live in for women. I hope parents do start teaching their kids about respect at home.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/05/how-raise-feminist-6-not-so-easy-steps/312228002/

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Many parents tell their children that when they grow up, they can be anything they want. For that to be true, experts say, we must raise them as feminists. Teaching kids feminism means emphasizing everyone deserves equal respect and equal opportunities.

USA TODAY spoke with Kimberly Churches, the CEO of the American Association of University Women, a non-profit organization that advances equality for women and girls, and Ted Bunch, chief development officer of A Call to Men, a violence prevention organization that focuses on reframing the definition of manhood, to get their tips on how to raise the next generation of feminists in a post-#MeToo era.

1: Fight stereotypes - including your own

We all have unconscious gender biases. These are the things we've internalized - like seeing a woman in scrubs and thinking she's a nurse rather than a surgeon, or assuming that girls cry more easily and boys are more aggressive.

"We can't allow our boys or our girls to grow and change if we don't first examine our own stereotypical thinking," Churches said.

Such biases were given to us by parents, teachers and mentors, and were reinforced by media and society at large. Bunch says dads who tell their boys not to cry, for example, likely had fathers who didn't openly display emotion.

"It's passed down from generation to generation," he said.

Gender stereotypes become entrenched in adolescence and are proven to have negative impacts that carry into adulthood. Because they take hold early in life, it's important to be mindful of them.

"It's kind of like the hum of the refrigerator - you never notice it until you think about it," Bunch said.

2: Show kids how it's done

If you want to raise feminist children, be a feminist parent. If you have a partner, make sure your relationship shows equity and mutual respect.

We must show kids what "healthy relationships look like," Churches said.

At home, avoid adhering to traditional gender roles. If mom never changes a lightbulb and dad never helps clean, that sends message to kids about roles for men and women. Try to divide chores and activities in your family in an unbiased way. Of course, if dad hates cooking and mom loves it, there's nothing wrong with her taking on meals. Just like there's nothing wrong with your daughter saying she'd rather mow the lawn than wash the dishes.

3: Encourage friendships between boys and girls

Opposite-sex friendships are normal and healthy. When girls only play with other girls and boys only play with other boys, it reinforces gender stereotypes.

"I remember when my daughter started kindergarten in a new school, the moms came to me and said 'Lets get all the girls together.' And I resisted that, and I then hosted my own playdates with boys and girls, so I could let my child figure out who she wanted to play with," Churches said.

If your daughter is having a birthday party, make sure the boys in her class get invites, too, experts advise. Explore co-ed activities. And if a girl and a boy do develop a friendship, definitely don't call them "boyfriend and girlfriend." Boys and girls need to understand they can interact in friendly ways that are strictly platonic.

4: Talk about consent

If your child says he or she doesn't want to give a family member a hug, respect that. Talk openly about boundaries, and how words are used to enforce them.

"[It's] important for us to be teaching our boys and our girls the power of words ... to ensure safety," Churches said.

As children grow into adolescents, it's important to emphasize to young men especially that sex is not about "the conquest," Bunch said.

In a Harvard survey, 76% of young people said they'd never had a conversation with their parents about how to avoid sexually harassing others, and a majority had never talked with their parents about misogyny. More than 60% said they had never spoken with their parents about "being sure your partner wants to have sex and is comfortable doing so before having sex," while 57% said they'd never talked about the "importance of not having sex with someone who is too intoxicated or impaired to make a decision about sex."

OPINION: Teach kids to prevent sex abuse

5: Pay attention to what happens outside your home

Look closely at the messages your child is getting when he or she isn't at home, especially at school, Churches said.
More: Schools address gender inclusion to ensure all students can learn
"Very frequently when our P-12 schools are teaching American history it becomes all about the founding fathers, and you don't see replicated photos of the women who helped to pave the way," she said.
UNSUNG HEROES: The women behind MLK
Make sure schools are teaching holistically about men and women leaders, Churches said, and about "who can be our heroes and heroines today."
More: More: Toy companies break down barriers to be more inclusive American Girl's 2018 'Doll of the Year' dreams of being an astronaut For more Women's History Month coverage, see women.usatoday.com. Alia Dastagir writes about gender and culture. Follow her on Twitter @alia_e.
6: Follow your child's lead

Don't make assumptions about what your child likes based on gender. Let them show you. Your daughter may prefer her blocks over her Barbies, and your son may gravitate toward more nurturing toys. Just last month, popular doll line American Girl introduced its first boy.

"It's not just about those differences between the sexes, there are differences among human beings," Churches said. "I think one of the biggest things here when we're thinking about raising feminist boys and girls is not to overgeneralize or make assumptions ... and to really celebrate those differences and follow our children's leads."

'PRINCESS CULTURE': It's inescapable for preschoolers. Is that OK?

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If you want to raise your kids believing in equality, the bottom line is it's all about respect.

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When I was in high school I discovered that a group of guys had a chat of pictures that they took under girl's uniforms without us noticing. I reported this to our director and they didn't do anything, until a group of girls and I decided to get parents involved and started wearing jeans instead of a skirt to school until they did something to punish them.

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A quote that stood out to me was from "A Love Song for Latasha" was "People don't know that. They just know that she was just a young Black girl who was worth $1.79. They don't know who she was as an individual. They don't know." This quote really stood out because the whole documentary's purpose was to acknowledge and appreciate Latasha's life and they were able to do so through anecdotes and the style of filming and editing. This quote was really impactful because it really brought everything to life from the viewer's perspective as a viewer we didn't know Latasha personally but after watching this documentary we were able to understand that Latasha is more then a statistic and she was a real person with a real family that deserved more then what happened.

A question I had was how are we going to share other's stories? Social media and media in general have really aided in sharing the stories of people but you can only get so much information in the small amount of time.

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We can connect what we saw in my anecdote about a movement I have been a part of to the focus on food insecurity in my PAH 201 course. My project in that course is focused on the hardships out-of-state students face when trying to pay for college and food. Looking at these issues leaves us thinking about how we can create a structural change across many different platforms to inspire overall change. Not only would these changes benefit my movement, but people across the country who are dealing with many other food insecurity hardships.

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Growing up, every Thanksgiving, my family and I would volunteer with an organization that helps prepare and deliver meals to people who don’t have the ability to leave their house or can’t afford a thanksgiving meal. While this is only one day annually it had made a difference in someone’s life, making me feel very good when I was young. Knowing people who had these kinds of hardships around my home state of NY had motivated me to continue working on that throughout high school and when I return home on Thanksgiving break.

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While spending time in Phoenix with my girlfriend, we took the time to randomly join a Gay Pride movement. I'm not sure what the name of the exact movement was, but we felt that we could relate to what they were saying. The idea that people should be accepting and open-minded to help make the world a better place. We ended up staying for a couple hours and went home feeling more connected to the world around us.
How might people find and participate within a movement that they care for without the fear of other's judgement?
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Many of us have personal connections and as I read through everyone's anecdotes and concepts, I was able to form a question based on my interpretations. How can people get over the fear of "putting themselves out there" to stand up for an organization that they are passionate about? I know that there are many people who are advocating for certain issues, but are not consistent and stepping up to be strong in their faith in the issue. I can say I am personally impacted by this too. How can we change this? Why are people too scared?

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A quote that stood out to me was from Sophia Nahli Allison from "A Love Song for Latasha", which states, "Although her death was a catalyst for the L.A. riots, this film is about life. She is remembered beyond the trauma of a Black body, beyond a statistic, a newspaper headline, or an inaccurate Wikipedia page."
This is about a young African-American girl named Latasha who was killed in 1991. From this, they made a documentary "A Love Song for Latasha". I like the message that comes from the quote and the documentary. I had never seen something like this before and I could connect it to my personal life. Even though, demographically I can not relate to the community; I still have empathy and correlate it to my life. Through traumatic experiences, authors like Allison can bring stories to real life and raise awareness on hot topics. Overall, this story is a great representation of young African-American girls who are living their struggles and have their dreams & goals. I like this quote overall and it is a great representation of storytelling.

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My question is what are some ways people who are closeminded can open up to the inequality that many Americans face because of their race?
During the BLM movement, I have many people who related, and I know who were showing negligence and had a close-minded mind. They think everything and everyone is treated the same and when provided with evidence they still show arrogance. I informed them with data on racial inequality and discrimination because of how it is happening around them.

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Resource for Mental Health - Jeremy Gabriele

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Resource for Mental Health - Jeremy Gabriele

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Sir: In this era of exponential growth of the "metabolic syndrome" and obesity, lifestyle modifications could be a cost-effective way to improve health and quality of life. Lifestyle modifications can assume especially great importance in individuals with serious mental illness. Many of these individuals are at a high risk of chronic diseases associated with sedentary behavior and medication side effects, including diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular disease. An essential component of lifestyle modification is exercise. The importance of exercise is not adequately understood or appreciated by patients and mental health professionals alike. Evidence has suggested that exercise may be an often-neglected intervention in mental health care.

Aerobic exercises, including jogging, swimming, cycling, walking, gardening, and dancing, have been proved to reduce anxiety and depression. These improvements in mood are proposed to be caused by exercise-induced increase in blood circulation to the brain and by an influence on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and, thus, on the physiologic reactivity to stress. This physiologic influence is probably mediated by the communication of the HPA axis with several regions of the brain, including the limbic system, which controls motivation and mood; the amygdala, which generates fear in response to stress; and the hippocampus, which plays an important part in memory formation as well as in mood and motivation.

Other hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the beneficial effects of physical activity on mental health include distraction, self-efficacy, and social interaction. While structured group programs can be effective for individuals with serious mental illness, lifestyle changes that focus on the accumulation and increase of moderate-intensity activity throughout the day may be the most appropriate for most patients. Interestingly, adherence to physical activity interventions in psychiatric patients appears to be comparable to that in the general population.

Exercise improves mental health by reducing anxiety, depression, and negative mood and by improving self-esteem and cognitive function. Exercise has also been found to alleviate symptoms such as low self-esteem and social withdrawal. Exercise is especially important in patients with schizophrenia since these patients are already vulnerable to obesity and also because of the additional risk of weight gain associated with antipsychotic treatment, especially with the atypical antipsychotics. Patients suffering from schizophrenia who participated in a 3-month physical conditioning program showed improvements in weight control and reported increased fitness levels, exercise tolerance, reduced blood pressure levels, increased perceived energy levels, and increased upper body and hand grip strength levels. Thirty minutes of exercise of moderate intensity, such as brisk walking for 3 days a week, is sufficient for these health benefits. Moreover, these 30 minutes need not to be continuous; three 10-minute walks are believed to be as equally useful as one 30-minute walk.

Health benefits from regular exercise that should be emphasized and reinforced by every mental health professional to their patients include the following:

1. Increased interest in sex

2. Increased energy and stamina

3. Reduced tiredness that can increase mental alertness

4. Reduced cholesterol and improved cardiovascular fitness

Mental health service providers can thus provide effective, evidence-based physical activity interventions for individuals suffering from serious mental illness. Further studies should be done to understand the impact of combining such interventions with traditional mental health treatment including psychopharmacology and psychotherapy.

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A time I took part in a movement was at my old College in Boston. There was a lot of issues regarding students being able to play music outside on campus. The issue was that many of us chose to attend this school due to its nice beaches and beautiful location. The new faculty was taking the school in the wrong direction and our entire team was not happy with it. We took it among ourselves to chat with the athletic director and get into contact with the people in control. We voiced our concerns and the schools inability to consider students mental health. Although I transferred, my old teammates notified me that the school is a lot more lenient and fun like it should be. They are making the proper changes and looking after the students mental health.

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Many people experience some sort of "movement" in our lives, but not all the time is change made. Is there anything better that you think would work in order to make change?

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A time that I took part of a movement was having my hometown community come together and unite after a mass shooting on the 4th of July in 2022 during a parade. We all came together as "HP Strong" and wanted to let people know about the tragedy that had happened. People from all over the suburbs around Chicago were uniting with our community, even the Chicago Bears and Chicago Bulls.

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I know some of us have personal connections with some of these social movement or have participated in them, but how can we encourage our community to participate more and be engaged in the community?

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The Article I chose was the protests in September 2017 in St. Louis after ex cop Jason Stockley was proven guilty after murdering Anthony Lamar Smith. I chose this article because I am from St. Louis and at the time I was a freshman in high school and wasn't aware at the time what was going on but I was later educated on what was happening in my community. I think this protest sheds light on the law enforcement issue in St. Louis and how there have also been other related killings in the city in recent years.

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Protests break out in downtown St. Louis after ex-cop Jason Stockley acquitted in shooting

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Protests broke out in downtown St. Louis on Friday after a judge acquitted former police officer Jason Stockley in the shooting of a black man following a car chase in 2011. Protests have been largely peaceful, though there are reports of some protestors throwing rocks and bottles at police.

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After looking over the BLM website, I noticed that the main point of this website was to bring light to the situation. Within the website the opening title is "Take Action" an opening sentence is, "Join the Movement to fight for Freedom, Liberation and Justice". Media being shown in the website is trying to support the defunding of police and instead use those funds to better communities effected by police brutality. I feel that identity does play a huge role into the safety of someone. 

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After looking over the BLM website, I noticed that the main point of this website was to bring light to the situation. Within the website the opening title is "Take Action" an opening sentence is, "Join the Movement to fight for Freedom, Liberation and Justice". Media being shown in the website is trying to support the defunding of police and instead use those funds to better communities effected by police brutality. I feel that identity does play a huge role into the safety of someone. 

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I chose this article because the Disability Rights Movement is one that is often forgotten and not spoken about, so I wanted to bring more awareness to it. In a sociology class I took a few years ago, I wrote a paper about disability rights, particularly in the United States. When I proposed this topic on a discussion board, multiple people said they didn't even realize this was an issue because they had not been personally impacted by it.

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by Kitty Cone

In 1973 the first federal civil rights protection for people with disabilities, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act was signed into law. What section 504 says is "no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall solely on the basis of his handicap, be excluded from the participation, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." Essentially it said no program receiving federal funds could discriminate against a person with a disability.

Section 504 was based on the language of previous civil rights laws that protected women and minorities. It recognized that society has historically treated people with disabilities as second-class citizens based on deeply held fears and stereotypes that go way back. Those attitudes had translated into pity and persecution, and later into policies that were based on paternalism.

People with disabilities, ourselves didn't think the issues we faced in our daily lives were the product of prejudice and discrimination. Disability had been defined by the medical model of rehabilitation, charity and paternalism. If I thought about why I couldn't attend a university that was inaccessible, I would have said it was because I couldn't walk, my own personal problem. Before section 504, responsibility for the consequences of disability rested only on the shoulders of the person with a disability rather than being understood as a societal responsibility. Section 504 dramatically changed that societal and legal perception.

Only with section 504 was the role of discrimination finally legally acknowledged. Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who had attempted in earlier years to pass civil rights legislation covering people with disabilities said about Section 504:

"the time has come to firmly establish the right of disabled Americans to dignity and self-respect as equal and contributing members of society and to end the virtual isolation of millions of children and adults."

At that time, discrimination existed in education, employment, housing, transportation, access to public buildings and other facilities, access to equal medical care and in many other areas.

So, after the law was passed, in order for it to become effective, regulations had to be issued defining who was a disabled person, what did otherwise qualified mean, what constituted discrimination and nondiscrimination in the context of disability etc. Enforcement timelines had to be developed as well as an administrative enforcement mechanism. The regulations would provide a consistent, coherent interpretation of 504's legal intent rather than leaving it up to any judge who heard a 504 case to interpret what the law meant.

There were contradictory rulings being handed down by courts. There was one case involving the right of a wheelchair user to use public buses in which the decision was that if a driver stopped and opened the doors that constituted nondiscrimination. Another case acknowledged that steps prevented a wheelchair user from boarding. These cases illustrated the need to define nondiscrimination, and also to define differences as well as similarities with race and gender discrimination.

The Department of Health Education welfare (HEW) was the lead agency, and their regulations would become the guidelines for all the other federal agencies - Department of Transportation, HUD etc.. It was crucial that the regulations be strong, because ultimately 504 would cover every area that received federal financial assistance.

Between 1973 and 1977 no regulations were issued. During that period strong regulations were drafted by attorneys in the Office for Civil Rights, sent to the Secretary of HEW with a recommendation to publish them in proposed form in the Federal Register for public comment.

By this time, opposition was developing on the part of covered entities - hospitals, universities, state and county governments and the regulations were not published. There was much delay; the disability community filed a lawsuit in federal court; the judge ruled that they must be issued but not when.

HEW sent the regulations to Congress which was totally unusual and Congress sent them back. HEW published an intent to propose regulations in the Federal Register.

There were a few actions taken by the disability community, and finally, HEW printed the proposed regs; there was extensive public comment, and a final compromise set of regs was waiting on HEW Secretary Califano's desk when Carter administration came into office.

During this time, the American coalition of citizens with disabilities (ACCD) a national cross disability was formed. ACCD became deeply involved in leading the effort to get regulations out.

Once the Carter administration was an office, instead of signing the regulations, HEW set up a task force with no representation from the disability community to "study" them. It became clear, through delays and leaks from inside, that the regulations were being seriously weakened in coverage, enforcement, and the whole integration mandate.

There was a list of issues that included consortia: this would have meant that all the universities in a locale could form a consortium and thereby offer a full curriculum. Attending classes at a variety of universities would be absurd for a nondisabled person, but for a person with a disability it was absurd and patently unequal. The list of issues also included whether alcoholics and drug addicts were to be covered by the regulations. A case that occurred later concerned whether a coach who was a recovering alcoholic could be fired, although he had been sober for years. The list started out a short and grew to be about 20 issues.

Although most of the leadership of ACCD supported the Democrats, they understood that even as they were being told that the changes were cosmetic, the changes in were so profound that would put us in direct confrontation with the administration.

ACCD, realizing our civil rights protections were being gutted, demanded HEW issue the regulations unchanged by April 4, or action would occur. They called for sit ins at eight HEW regional headquarters, April 5th if HEW didn't comply.

I think this was brilliant, because rather than waiting until watered-down regulations were issued publicly and then responding, issue by issue, this meant the government would have to respond to the demonstrators. Additionally, it was not that easy to organize people, particularly people with physical disabilities, in those days, due to lack of transit, support services and so on. A sit in meant people would go and stay, until the issue was resolved definitively.

The San Francisco federal building sit in, the only one that endured, lasted 28 days and was critical in forcing the signing of the regulations almost unchanged. It began with a rally outside the federal building, then we marched inside where between 1 and 200 people would remain until the end. The composition of the sit in represented the spectrum of the disability community with participation from people with a wide variety of disabilities, from different racial, social and economic backgrounds, and ages from adults to kids with disabilities and their parents.

We all felt that we were acting on behalf of hundreds of thousands of people who were not able to participate, people all over the country who were institutionalized or stuck in other dependency situations.

In the Bay Area, a broad cross disability coalition, the Emergency 504 Coalition, began building for a rally on April 5th, knowing we'd sit in afterwards. We set up committees to take on different tasks such as rally speakers, media, fund-raising, medics, monitors, publicity, and outreach.

The outreach committee was very successful in garnering broad community support: from churches, unions, civil rights organizations, gay groups, elected politicians, radical parties and others.

The work of that committee proved to be invaluable once we were inside the building. Those organizations built support rallies outside the building and the breath of the support made it more difficult to move against us. The International Association of Machinists facilitated our sending a delegation to Washington. Politicians sent mattresses and a shower hose to attach to the sink.

Glide Memorial Church and the Black Panther party sent many delicious meals that nourished us between days of coffee and doughnuts.

The other committees also continued inside the building. The media committee met regularly to review the coverage and discuss how to make our purpose more clear, how to use the press to get particular issues across. It directed reporters to appropriate spokespeople, called news conferences and so on.

The committees had a great deal of work to do and kept many people involved. This was good, because the conditions were physically grueling, sleeping sometimes three or four hours a night on the floor and everyone was under stress about their families, jobs, our health, the fact that we were all filthy and so on.

All the participants met daily to make tactical decisions. These were flowing, creative meetings but they often went on for hours, which meant very little sleep. But they were important in developing consensus and arriving at a course of action.

Some of the issues taken up in the mass meetings were: what to do if we were arrested, a hunger strike in sympathy with the Washington demonstrators who had been starved out, which we decided would be voluntary, how to deal with the bomb scare, the decision to have congressional hearings in the building on HEW's list of proposed changes, who would speak at the hearing, who would speak at the rallies outside, the decision to send a contingent from the building to Washington DC, a process for choosing the 12 or so people who would go.

At every moment, we felt ourselves the descendants of the civil rights movement of the '60s. We learned about sit ins from the civil rights movement, we sang freedom songs to keep up morale, and consciously show the connection between the two movements. We always drew the parallels. About public transportation we said we can't even get on the back of the bus. A high point was Julian Bond's visit to the building.

A congressional hearing was held in the building that was extremely dramatic. The testimony of Judy Heumann, Ed Roberts, Debby Kaplan, Phil Newmark and others was so compelling, that the representative from HEW got up and locked himself in an office. Congressman Phil Burton leapt up and ran after him and kicked on the door insisting he come out.

After about two weeks, a contingent was chosen to go to Washington to lend the moral authority and the leadership of the sit in to the efforts there to pressure the administration. We really wanted to break open the East Coast press and we wanted some more demonstrations that would mobilize people, and we were striving to get a meeting at the White House.

The machinists union, the IAM rented a large U-Haul truck with a lift on the back, and all the demonstrators who were wheelchair riders were transported in that vehicle. They held a large reception for us at their international headquarters, and after we had eaten, we were asked to speak and I believe we all sang We Shall Overcome . An international vice president became very involved in assisting us in anything we needed. They allowed us to use their union headquarters to organize demonstrations, so we had access to telephone lines, copy machines and other things necessary for organizing.

One of the first things was hold meetings in the capital with senators Alan Cranston and Harrison Williams. Sen. Cranston was one of the original sponsors of the legislation. Up until we met with him, he had been supporting the administration position. Cranston, at that time possibly the most important man in Congress, raised the administration's objections to the "unchanged" 504 regulations, one by one. Each objection was answered by a different member of our delegation, and answered very thoroughly.

It was a testament to the group's self-confidence and total understanding of the contested issues, that issue by issue, Cranston was turned around, in front of national TV cameras and other media. We were all extremely tired and sleep deprived and yet everyone managed to marshal their wits to carry out this extremely important political discussion. Frank Bowe, who was the director of ACCD, a deaf man, spoke last. He made such eloquent remarks, in which he said, "Senator, we are not even second-class citizens, we are third class citizens," that we all began to cry.

An important tactic when we got to Washington was challenging Carter on having an open door administration. Each administration defines itself by a slogan such as The Great Society. The Carter administration presented itself as accessible to people and they called it the Open Door Administration , so we demonstrated wherever Carter and Califano went, forcing them to go out backdoors. At Carter's church , when Califano spoke to the press club, holding vigils and prayers outside of Califano's home was all about getting East Coast coverage. And that was important in getting us a meeting at the White House.

The sit in and contingent it sent to Washington were pivotal in getting strong 504 regulations signed that embodied concepts of equality and integration, and the affirmative steps that must be taken to achieve that for people with disabilities. 504 has never enforced as it should be. The Department of Transportation 504 regulations which called for reasonable, phased in measures to make public transportation accessible turned into a bitter fight between the American Public Transit Association and the disability community and were overturned in federal court in 1980. Those measures became part of the ADA 10 years later.

The HEW Section 504 regulations established the basic operational principles that became the basis for legal compliance with the ADA. Nondiscrimination is the fundamental right established by 504. Discrimination can occur through exclusionary practices as well as an inaccessible environment. Affirmative conduct may be required to remove architectural or communication barriers or to provide reasonable accommodations. People with disabilities experience discrimination as a class, irrespective of diagnosis.

504 established the three pronged legal definition of disability as opposed to a medical one. The definition includes people with physical or mental impairments that substantially limit one or more major life activity, those who have a record of such an impairment, and those who are regarded as having such an impairment. Another 504 principal that is particular to disability civil rights is the balancing of the individual's right to be free from discrimination with the cost to society to effect a remedy. It established the right of an individual who has experienced discrimination to pursue an administrative remedy with the appropriate federal agency as well as to go to court.

Even though 504 wasn't strongly enforced, the sit in was of historic importance. For the first time we had concrete federal civil rights protection. We had shown ourselves and the country through network TV that we, the most hidden, impoverished, pitied group of people in the nation were capable of waging a deadly serious struggle that brought about profound social change. The sit in was a truly transforming experience the likes of which most of us had never seen before or ever saw again. Those of us with disabilities were imbued with a new sense of pride, strength, community and confidence. For the first time, many of us felt proud of who we were. And we understood that our isolation and segregation stemmed from societal policy, not from some personal defects on our part and our experiences with segregation and discrimination were not just our own personal problems .

Without 504 - it's coverage and example and the disability civil rights principles contained in the regulations we fought so hard for, and the empowerment of tens of thousands of disability activists through 504 trainings, and activities and mobilizations - there might well be no Americans with Disabilities Act, that finally brought us up to parity with federal civil rights laws covering gender and race.
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What section 504 says is "no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall solely on the basis of his handicap, be excluded from the participation, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

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A quote that stuck out to me was "A crucial element of action is the fact that the end is unknown at the time of acting" (Rogers) from the 6.2 week slides. I think this really stands out to me because I think so many people are afraid of challenging the status-quo, so we do not act. We, as a society, are afraid of abolition, not because a lot of people oppose it, but because we don't have a set system, so we feel afraid.
I think also if you are really passionate about an issue, you will fight for it even if you might not win. This aligns slightly with the idea of being on the right side of history. Would you rather be on the winning side or the moral choice?
This quote also reminds me of the song Nonstop from Hamilton when Hamilton asks Aaron Burr to held defend the constitution and Burr asks "And what if it fails?"

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This movement/protest was a time that will be remembered in history. This movement resulted in me taking action is getting involved in protests near my city/town. Being from a small town close to Minneapolis where  this tragedy started it hit close to home. A question I often think about related to this movement is who started it. How did such a large stance of protest begin? Who started the first protest? This leads to a connection in class of the physical being of where communities meet. When learning about public and private space in class is is often thought of as everywhere is public space. When thinking of BLM protest I remember there being commotion talk around the destruction or private businesses. This was a connection that was discovered and thought of by my question above.
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A quote that stood out to me was the one from Sophia Nahli Allison. She said, “[…] Although her death was a catalyst for the L.A. riots, this film is about life. She is remembered beyond the trauma of a black girl body, beyond statistics, a newspaper headline, or an inaccurate Wikipedia page.” In this quote, Sophia N. Allison is talking about Latasha, a young African American who was killed in 1991. I love the message that Sophia is conveying in this quote as she explains the main purpose of the film she made about Latasha, which was to focus on her life before the tragic incident. She wanted to go beyond the limited information shared by the news or the internet and help people not just focus on the story of a black girl who was murdered. Sophia wanted the memory of Latasha to be more meaningful, so she made a film about the story of a young African American who had dreams, lived her own experiences, and the way she impacted the lives of people around her.

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I never really took part in a “movement” or protests, but I remember being part of a group of people who helped a large group of homeless people located near a Washington, DC, bridge. I remember that it was on Sunday at noon. We bought supplies of food and drinks that we distributed later to all the homeless that were near that area. I believe this could be an example of a time when I took “action” as I participated in an act of compassion on a social issue. The reason I talked about this event is because it was one of them, and I feel proud to have contributed. As I saw all those families with kids hungry and coming to pick up the food we bought for them, I just felt really happy to help them in a certain way.

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I wish I was able to be apart of other movements other than a sit down from a local high school in Tucson after covid hit there was a bunch of BLM protests I wasn't able to be apart of due to family quarantine. This movement was because Sahuaro decided to take away our study hall since students were abusing it and leaving campus, while other students actually needed the study hall in order to get homework done, maybe they didnt have a good mean to work on homework privately this gave those students a chance to check in with teachers, but they took it away, so the school organized a sit down protest in which i was a part of.  How could such a small community come together and convince the school to trust students.

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Sahuaro high school students held sit-down due to schedule changes

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The Hong Kong protests explained in 100 and 500 words

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All you need to know about the demonstrations in Hong Kong - the short and the long story.

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I didn't physically participate in the Hong Kong protests, however, it hits close to home because Hong Kong stands as the one of the last bastions of defense against China's encroaching control over East Asia. Being a person from Taiwan, the Hong Kong's situation mirrors our's and a lot of of us expressed sentiments to support Hong Kong's autonomy and independence. When the protestors succeeded in stopping the extradition bill from passing, its a huge relief to us as well.

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Connection: This movement hits close to home for me, and it is a movement that I really care about. The MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) movement is a movement that most people are unaware of and is not publicized too often within the mass media. It almost seems to be in the foreshadows, hidden in the background of other widespread media news. This is an epidemic surrounding American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls who have gone missing without a trace and very little investigation has been done on finding answers. This movement relates to the topics we covered in class on "story" and "action". What is behind the story? What is missing? What type of action is taking place? -SD

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How have signs like directions, labels, and alerts shaped your life? Are there any times you can remember seeing a sign that changed the way you thought or acted?

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I participated in the 2019 Women's March in Washington DC. I went with a group of male classmates in support of all women but especially our beloved French teacher. One unique takeaway I had from the march was that signs are a very interesting form of expression. Signs can be images, slogans, even statistics and I feel that they can be a very concise way of sharing ideas; and in such a large crowd setting, signs really begin to cloud your view which adds to the power behind the march.

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A crucial element of action is the fact that the end is unknown at the time of acting (natality, newness, potential).  In action, the end is “not pursued but lies in the activity itself.” We are not “in control” of our actions in the way that we are in control of our labor or work.” (Rogers)

This quote stood out to me because it says that our actions have an impact. We are unaware of its impact until the action is completed. Once the action has occurred, we as individuals connect via the response we have to the action. We are not always conscious of this connection.

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The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law on Monday announced its new Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, a hub that will offer education, advocacy and research aimed at advancing racial justice.

The new center is named after Larry Gibson and Taunya Lovell Banks, both Maryland Carey Law professors and civil rights trailblazers.

The center's focus will be improving the lives of people affected by historic and modern-day racial oppression, the law school said in a news release. These efforts will include partnering with impacted communities and organizations that work for racial justice in order to address inequalities in the legal system, employment, education, housing and health, among other issues.

Renée M. Hutchins, the law school's dean, said the center will offer "a critical space for scholarship, engagement, and action on issues of race and the law. It will also serve as a resource for students, lawyers, and community members who are working to advance racial justice.

"The beauty of this center is that it will be a convener of all the relevant voices so we can get to the best solutions," Hutchins said.

Michael Pinard, a professor at Maryland Carey Law and expert on race and criminal justice issues, will lead the center as its first faculty director.

"I am honored to direct the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law," Pinard said. "The Center's overall focus and vision is to work with community stakeholders to improve the lives of those harmed by historical and modern-day racial and intersectional oppression."

The creation of the center was announced at the law school's fifth Black Law Alumni Reunion, which is held every five years.

The center's programming will include courses, workshops and discussions for Maryland Carey Law students, University System of Maryland institutions and the public, the school said.

The center will also participate in advocacy work, including state and federal litigation, seeking legislative change at all levels of government, and writing amicus briefs on important cases. Law school faculty and center fellows will also participate in legal scholarship related to race and intersectionality as well as policy and evidence-based research, the school said.

Carey Law alumnus William H. "Billy" Murphy, a graduate of the class of 1969, has committed $1 million to help build the center.

The center also will examine Maryland Carey Law's legacy as a formerly segregated institution that began enrolling Black students following litigation led by Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first African-American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Gibson, one of the professors for whom the center is named, is a legal historian who wrote a biography of Marshall and has a second book about the justice coming soon. He has been a member of the Carey Law faculty since 1974; before that, he became the first African-American law professor at the University of Virginia, according to his faculty profile.

Banks, the other professor for whom the Center is named, is a professor emeritus who taught her last class at Carey Law in the fall of 2021. She is known for her work in critical race theory and was the first tenured Black woman on the law school's faculty.

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Some people are afraid to step out of their comfort zone or express their feelings and shy away from taking part or starting a movement. How can the people become more comfortable with speaking their mind and taking action?

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The Writers Guild of America announced Tuesday it will end its strike after agreeing to a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers earlier this week-ending the 148-day work stoppage that crippled productions across the industry.

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Key Facts

News Peg

On Sunday, the WGA announced they had reached a tentative Minimum Basic Agreement with the AMPTP. Union leadership hailed the deal as "exceptional-with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership." In its statement, the guild thanked its 11,500-strong membership for generating "leverage" with their participation in the work stoppage. The tentative deal is a three year contract agreement and it was reached after five days of talks between the writers union and the studios last week.

Big Number

5%, 4%, 3.5%. Those are the minimum annual pay raises the writers will receive over the course of the three year contract, starting with a 5% raise immediately after the contract is ratified.

Surprising Fact

Under the deal, streamers will provide viewership data to the WGA-with a confidentiality agreement-which the Guild may then share with its members in "aggregated form." This is a major step as the writers had complained about the lack of transparency from streaming platforms. On the residual front, the agreement includes a 50% bonus residual payment for writers if a show or film is "viewed by 20% or more of the service's domestic subscribers in the first 90 days of release."

Crucial Quote

WGA West President Meredith Stiehm told Deadline: "This strike was way too long, because the companies took so long to get serious...I feel sad and pained that it took this long because when we got serious, we got it done in a reasonable amount of time. So much was wasted and lost by just not acting earlier."

Key Background

The WGA has been on strike since the beginning of May, with SAG-AFTRA, the actors guild, joining the writers in mid-July. Both guilds have similar requests: they're seeking higher residual payments for work done on streaming platforms, as well as protections in their contracts involving AI. The unions have argued the streaming era has diminished earning opportunities for writers and actors, as re-runs on broadcast television would earn them residual payments, but reruns on streaming platforms do not, while shorter and less frequent seasons on streaming compared to traditional network TV have also eaten into earning potential. Writers are also concerned that the growth in AI could mean their jobs get replaced by the burgeoning technology, while actors are concerned the technology could use their likenesses without their consent. Together, the strikes have shut down production on most scripted TV shows, and many major movie productions. When the writers guild met with the studios earlier this week, it was the first time the two sides had met since mid-August.

Tangent

A number of celebrities-particularly talk show hosts who have fewer WGA writers on their staff-have come under fire in recent weeks for attempting to bring back their shows. Drew Barrymore, who hosts her own syndicated talk show, initially planned to bring her show back without writers but in compliance with strike rules. A few days later she announced she was pausing the show's return, saying she has "no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt." After similar backlash, HBO talk show host Bill Maher paused production on his show Real Time earlier this week, citing recent momentum at the negotiating table as his reasoning. Some talk show hosts who do not employ WGA writers have returned to air amid the strike, including Live! With Kelly and Mark, Tamron Hall and Sherri.

What To Watch For

It's unclear how much longer the SAG strike will continue now that the writers strike has been resolved.

Further Reading

Bill Maher Reverses Course: Pauses HBO Show Due To Writers' Strike ( Forbes)

Drew Barrymore Backtracks: Talk Show Paused Until Hollywood Strikes End After Union Criticism ( Forbes)

Talk Shows By Bill Maher And Drew Barrymore Are Returning-But Are They Breaking Strike Rules? ( Forbes)

Stars Auction Off Dinners, Pottery Classes, And Even Relationship Advice To Help Crews During Hollywood Strike - See What They're Offering And How To Bid ( Forbes)

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Hollywood Writers Strike Ends: Deal Finalized After 148 Days Of Work Stoppage

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After 148 days, the Writers Guild of America voted to end the strike, following a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.