Carey Sipp 9/23/215:00 AM

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, September 21, 2021

Americans love rags-to-riches stories, tales of people who transcended childhood poverty to achieve adult success. Unless you’re totally oblivious to reality, however, you surely realize that such stories are the exceptions, not the rule. The disadvantages of growing up in poverty — poor nutrition, poor health care, an impoverished environment, the cognitive burden that goes along with never having enough money — can and often do hobble children for the rest of their lives.

That much is or should be obvious. What you may not know is that economists have actually quantified the damage from childhood poverty.

You see, America’s anti-poverty programs, such as they are — notably food stamps and Medicaid — weren’t rolled out all at once. Food stamps became available in some parts of the country earlier than in other parts; so did Medicaid, which was also expanded in a series of discrete jumps. This stuttering, haphazard approach to helping poor children amounted to an unintentional form of human experimentation: We can compare the life trajectories of Americans who received crucial aid as children with those of their contemporaries or near-contemporaries who didn’t.

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Carey SippFormer Volunteer Co-Director, PACEs Connection Revitalization

Yes. Why not make the kids alright!?! Love this piece. Doesn’t include everything but is a start. And raises a fundamental, crucial question.

We all know it is less expensive — in pain and dollars and multi-generational conduction of misery and disease — to PREVENT abuse, disease, misery. The hesitancy is the systems change required. A wholesale flipping of where we are to where we need to be.

See our “Path to a Just Society” for the language, the path, the vision.

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 Carey Sipp 10/4/214:16 PM

By Nicole Chavez and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN World, September 30, 2021

Canada observed its first national holiday honoring victims and survivors of the country’s residential school system.

The statutory holiday came a day after a federal court upheld a 2016 ruling ordering the Canadian government to compensate Indigenous children who were placed into foster care. Thursday’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and the court decision highlight the history of discrimination and harm toward First Nations communities.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the holiday recognizes the “harms, injustices, and intergenerational trauma that Indigenous peoples have faced — and continue to face — because of the residential school system, systemic racism, and the discrimination that persists in our society.”

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 Carey Sipp 10/5/215:00 AM

By Linda Matchan, The Washington Post, October 2, 2021

Michelle Browder is a Black artist and activist who runs a civil rights tour company called More Than Tours — so named, she says, because “it’s an experience.”

A sobering experience: stops include historical lynching sites, the city’s former slave market and the old Greyhound Bus Station where 21 young Freedom Riders were viciously beaten by an angry mob in 1961.

Still, no historic site on the tour riles Browder as much as a statue on the lawn of the Alabama State House. Not the one honoring Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy and defender of slavery. It’s the one across the lawn, commemorating a 19th-century physician most people have never heard of: J. Marion Sims, the so-called “father of modern gynecology.”

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 Carey Sipp 10/7/211:00 PM

By Drew Lindsay, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 5, 2021

After Haiti’s August earthquake, as relief organizations rushed in, Eboo Patel pointed to a lesson for equity advocates in the United States. Many groups putting boots on the ground in the Caribbean country were anchored in a religious faith, with aid workers who were Catholic and Jewish, Islamic and evangelical Christianity, Lutheran and Episcopalian. Patel’s rhetorical question: If people who embrace different ideas of creation and salvation find common ground in a mission of mercy, couldn’t those who fight for justice do the same?

You might expect such an argument from Patel, who founded the Interfaith Youth Core some 20 years ago to make interfaith coalitions the norm, particularly in efforts for social good. But the message takes on even more importance today, he says, because religion is largely absent from equity campaigns. The movements of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela all drew strength from interfaith coalitions built on a shared belief in love, equity, and the dignity of every human being. “We need to bring that to the fore, we need to learn from that, and we need to do the 21st-century expression of it,” he says.

Patel has not always espoused what he calls “love-based activism.” In the 1990s, while a student at the University of Illinois, he was a racial-justice warrior fueled by anger. “I just would breathe fire wherever I went,” he says. His intensity was such that his roommate took to sleeping on a friend’s couch to escape his rage and his rants.

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 Carey Sipp 10/8/215:00 AM

By Rhitu Chatterjee and Carmel Wroth, National Public Radio, October 7, 2021

Of all the sad statistics the U.S. has dealt with this past year and a half, here is a particularly difficult one: A new study estimates that more than 140,000 children in the U.S. have lost a parent or a grandparent caregiver to COVID-19. The majority of these children come from racial and ethnic minority groups.

“This means that for every four COVID-19 deaths, one child was left behind without a mother, father and/or a grandparent who provided for that child’s home needs and nurture — needs such as love, security and daily care,” says Susan Hillis, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and lead author of the new study.

The study, which was published Thursday in the journal Pediatrics, estimated the number of losses from April 1, 2020, through the end of June 2021 at 140,000. And that number has risen in the past three months: Hillis estimates it is around 175,000 today.

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 Carey Sipp 10/21/211:00 PM

By Deepa Shivram, National Public Radio, October 20, 2021

Acoalition of the nation’s leading experts in pediatric healthhas issued an urgent warningdeclaring the mental health crisis among children so dire that it has become a national emergency.

The declaration was penned by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Children’s Hospital Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, which together represent more than 77,000 physicians and 200 children’s hospitals.

In a letter released Tuesday, the groups say that rates of childhood mental health concerns were already steadily rising over the past decade. But the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the issue of racial inequality, they write, has exacerbated the challenges.

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 Carey Sipp 10/27/2110:00 AM

By Paurvi Bhatt, STAT, October 19, 2021

As a working daughter, I recently embarked on a new and uncertain phase of my career: taking paid leave for my seriously ill mother. Without children of my own, I never needed to consider paid leave. This new role in caregiving is making me square cultural norms and values engrained in me as a second-generation South Asian immigrant and as a female only child with my senior leadership role in corporate America.

While I’ve juggled responsibilities for years, this one is different. The pandemic sharpened my focus on the importance of care at home. Caregiving at home reinforced lessons learned from my public health training about the fragility of health. Balancing this work became all-consuming and pushed an important decision: My mother had cared for me her entire life, and it was now time for me to care for her.

In the U.S., women, especially women of color, often feel that when faced with the opportunity to care for their loved ones, they must silently deliver exemplary results, no matter their employment status. Caregiving for a loved one is hard enough without the additional mental and emotional strain of knowing you’re expected to do so without complaint or seeking help from others.

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 Carey Sipp 11/8/218:38 PM

Systemic Racism and Systemic Poverty are intertwined injustices in America’s politics and economy and we need to understand the role of these systems in our history and our present as we fight against these injustices. So we have invited two powerful speakers to join us in a moderated conversation on systemic racism:   Attorney Geeta Kapur and Attorney Jerry Blackwell.  You won’t want to miss this dynamic and enlightening exchange!

Geeta Kapur, a civil rights lawyer who has served the Poor People’s Campaign pro bono in many of our actions, has recently published her thoroughly researched book To Drink From the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University.  In it she explores the history of the University of North Carolina by exposing the plain and uncomfortable truth behind its storied brick walkways, statuary, and covered Well. Kapur tells this story as a citizen speaking to her fellow citizens. Rev William J Barber II says of her work:  “By paying attention to the particular history of America’s oldest public university, Kapur illuminates how the struggle for white supremacy that sometimes erupts violently in our society has been maintained and reinforced by the stories we tell ourselves.” You can purchase Kapur’s book online Here, or at this Saturday event, and/or Donate HERE so that the NC Poor People’s Campaign can give away her book to students and others unable to afford one.

Jerry Blackwell, an alumnus of UNC, played a key role as a special prosecutor in the historic April 2021 trial of Policeman Derek Chauvin, the convicted murderer of Mr. George Floyd. A native of Kannapolis, Attorney Blackwell will join Attorney Kapur to discuss white supremacy and racism in the death of George Floyd and at UNC. We have a great deal to learn from them as they talk together, and there will be a Q & A session with the audience following their conversation.  REGISTER HERE!

The NC Poor People’s Campaign will conclude the evening by inviting all courageous individuals that have joined together the last three years to demand equality and justice, to take a step further in the fight to end racism and poverty.   Join with the Poor People’s Campaign in preparation for the June 18, 2022 Mass Poor People’s & Low Wage Workers Assembly in Washington DC.

The  Schedule for Saturday November 13th at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church:

1:00PM Doors will open for Registration and Purchase of Books

2:00PM – 3:30PM Conversation with Attorneys Kapur and Blackwell

3:30PM-4:00PM Q&A

4:00PM Kick-Off for Mass Poor People’s Assembly in DC June 18 2022

Please Note:There is NO COST to attend.  This will be a COVID-safe event. Attendance is limited to allow for spaced seating; vaccinations and masks are required.Please Register HERE NOW to Assure Your Seat.  Spanish language translation will be provided. Encourage your faith community and social justice network to join you!  The event will be Livestreamed for those unable to attend in person.

There is also a nearby event on November 13th being hosted by our partner NC Medicare for All Coalition (NCM4A) and here is their invitation:  No one should be burdened with health care costs or go without basic needs. Join the NC Medicare for All Coalition on Saturday, November 13th from 11am-3pm at Chavis Park shelter #2 in Raleigh for the NCM4A FREE MARKET, where everything is free! Bring what you can. Take what you need. The market will include free food and free household items and clothing for anyone and everyone, as well as Medicare for All information and buttons! Chavis Park is located at 505 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd in Raleigh. Plan to stop by the market before joining us at 2pm at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church! If you would like to volunteer or bring items to the market, sign up here.

Forward Together! Not One Step Back!

NC Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

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By Ben Schachtman, WHQR, September 24, 2021

On the latest edition of The Newsroom, an in-depth conversation with District Attorney Ben David and Chief District Court Judge Jay Corpening. We discuss changing philosophical approaches to juvenile justice and changes to North Carolina’s laws — plus, what could be in store now that New Hanover County has agreed to tap $350 million in hospital sale funds.

On Monday, August 30, gunshots rang out in a crowded hallway at New Hanover High School. One student was badly injured and another was arrested, charged with serious felonies, including attempted first-degree murder.

It’s not clear yet if the young man will be charged as an adult — a decision that will be made during a special hearing in the near future. The outcome of that decision will, no doubt, have life-altering consequences.

In cases like this, the courts have a difficult balance to maintain. On the one hand, they have to take seriously the crimes being committed — and the victims to whom they do harm. But, at the same time, they must acknowledge that many children and young adults who enter the criminal justice system never truly find their way out.

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