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2May

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IMPACT, TOP FOUR

She Didn’t Die At The Hands Of The Mafia – The Photographer Who Fought The Sicilian Mafia For Five Decades

When Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia passed away on April 13, 2022, the biggest shock among those of us who have written about her was that she didn’t die at the hands of the Mafia. For nearly five decades she fearlessly fought the criminal enterprise. Armed with her 35mm camera, she publicized the Sicilian Mafia’s reign of terror with her photographs of the bullet-riddled bodies of public servants, innocent bystanders and mafiosi. She later worked as a politician and local activist to wrest Palermo’s streets and piazzas from the Mafia’s grip. Exposing the Mafia’s culture of death Battaglia earned international acclaim for her photographs of Sicily – images that captured the island’s beauty, poverty, spirit and, perhaps most famously, violence. Her first years working as a photojo...

‘Myth Of The Founder’ Puts Tremendous Power In Hands Of Big Tech CEOs Like Zuckerberg – Posing Real Risks To Democracy

31Mar

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BUSINESS

‘Myth Of The Founder’ Puts Tremendous Power In Hands Of Big Tech CEOs Like Zuckerberg – Posing Real Risks To Democracy

Coinbase’s plan to go public in April highlights a troubling trend among tech companies: Its founding team will maintain voting control, making it mostly immune to the wishes of outside investors. The best-known U.S. cryptocurrency exchange is doing this by creating two classes of shares. One class will be available to the public. The other is reserved for the founders, insiders and early investors, and will wield 20 times the voting power of regular shares. That will ensure that after all is said and done, the insiders will control 53.5% of the votes. Coinbase will join dozens of other publicly traded tech companies – many with household names such as Google, Facebook, Doordash, Airbnb and Slack – that have issued two types of shares in an effort to retain control for founders and insid...

In The Hands Of Law Enforcement ‘Early Warning’ Systems In Schools Can Be Dangerous

22Jan

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EDUCATION, Journalism

In The Hands Of Law Enforcement ‘Early Warning’ Systems In Schools Can Be Dangerous

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many students are getting lower grades and inconsistently attending classes. For students in one Florida county, low grades and absenteeism may put them at risk of being labeled by law enforcement as potential criminals. The Tampa Bay Times reported in late 2020 that the Pasco Sheriff’s Office uses student data to identify young people who, in its words, are “destined to a life of crime.” Pasco is a county of around 500,000 people just north of Tampa on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The Pasco Sheriff’s Office uses grades, disciplinary histories, progress toward graduation and attendance records alongside justice system data to flag students as being at risk of committing crimes. All it takes to be labeled as “at risk” is getting a single D on a report card or a disc...

27Apr

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Journalism

Hands-On Prison Programs Are Dying

Did you ever wonder why the U.S. Department of Corrections does not try to rehabilitate or alter the criminal behavior of inmates? No. Oh... are you aware that in the U.S. Inmates who participate in correctional education programs have 43% lower odds of returning to prison than those who do not. When inmates return home un-rehabilitated guess who really suffers? That's right we do- families, schools, hospitals, and whole communities. Recent budget cuts have reduced spending on vocational training and prisoner re-entry programs and inmates are less likely to get out and stay out as a result. It seem like the system doesn't truly want inmates to succeed as free and productive citizens. Why would it, when each inmate- according to the 13th amendment- is expected to work as an employee of the...