Social Justice & Community
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Class action lawsuit shines a harsh spotlight on Manitoba’s use of solitary confinement
Craig Haney, the plaintiffs’ expert and a psychology professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, toured Manitoba correctional facilities. “In terms of harshness and the risk of harm to which they subject prisoners, (Manitoba facilities) rivaled anything I have observed in some of the worst solitary confinement units in the United States,” Haney wrote in a…
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Enfoque California: Impacto de la Ley Grande y Hermosa de Trump sobre impuestos y Medicaid
Associate Professor of Sociology Juan Pedroza joined Telemundo’s Enfoque California program to discuss Trump Administration immigration policies and the repercussions of ICE activities in communities.
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County’s ancient Indigenous sites face new threat as California eases environmental rules to spur housing development
“Cultural resources are finite resources that can provide unparalleled opportunities to learn about human history generally,” said Tsim Schneider, an archaeologist and associate professor at UC Santa Cruz.
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Texas is trying a new kind of death row – one with a sense of community
“The basic harmfulness of solitary confinement is now a largely settled scientific fact,” said University of California, Santa Cruz psychology professor Craig Haney.
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Blue States Invest Retirees’ Savings in Firms Boosting Trump’s Extreme Agenda
Mike McCarthy, director of UC Santa Cruz’s Community Studies Program, noted the “tremendous lack of democracy in [pension] funds,” adding: “There’s a lack of any oversight from workers about how these funds are invested.”
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Conference organizers, potential participants fault US policies for falling attendance
This year’s International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions is planned for mid-August at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Conference cochair Howard Haber expects about 150 participants, down from around 200 in recent years. He says that some international scientists have canceled their participation because they are “spooked by stories in the…
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Undocumented day laborers cleared debris after the Eaton Fire. Now they’re afraid to work
Sociology Professor Juan Pedroza discussed the economic impacts of immigrant deportation. “We know raids and deportations harm the general labor market, including both immigrant workers and US households that rely on immigrant labor,” he said.
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Mike Rotkin, former mayor and an essential figure in Santa Cruz progressive activism, dies at 79
Mike Rotkin arrived in Santa Cruz in 1969, not long after the University of California, and soon not only became a pillar of UCSC’s Community Studies Program but launched into the progressive politics that reshaped the city. Additional coverage in Santa Cruz Sentinel and on KSBW.
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A dawn bus ride, a Capitol showdown and a last-minute deal: How Santa Cruz activists fought health care cuts
Students from UC Santa Cruz’s Everett Program for Technology and Social Change travelled to Sacramento to urge California lawmakers to reject Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed cuts to Medi-Cal for undocumented immigrants.
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Celebrating Pride while fighting Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policies
Phil Hammack, professor of psychology & director of the Sexual & Gender Diversity Lab at UC Santa Cruz, discusses how LGBTQ+ communities are celebrating and fighting back against the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ policies.
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Scams Targeting Immigrants Take Advantage of Fears of Immigration Status and Deportation
Juan Pedroza, a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said uncertainty and rapid changes to immigration laws and regulations “opens up new opportunities for scam artists to get creative.”
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Watsonville High co-valedictorian Jesus Nolasco-Vega takes organizational skills outside of classroom
Jesus Nolasco-Vega took part in a Youth Participatory Action Research project, which allowed him to work closely with UC Santa Cruz students and faculty to understand and address mental health issues through research and community engagement efforts.