Great to hear from you. I hope we see you at the 25th Anniversary celebration.

As you know, our classroom conversations are largely shaped by what students are bringing into the learning community. The issues you mention are certainly being dealt with in a variety of ways. We have added some courses in SPI over the past few years — including this year — that address some of these questions. /spi/courses/
Personally, I think that CJP has a special opportunity to bring wisdom from our colleagues who have been dealing with these problems into our conversations about what we in the United States can/should be doing. For example, we could learn a lot from our friends from Kenya, Iraq, and Afghanistan about how to anticipate, plan for and work against election violence.

We are an educational program, so our practice work is largely what the faculty and staff do on their own time and what our students do as part of their studies. As a program, we are able to support others who are taking more direct action by providing training and educational support services. Our STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience) program has been used by communities dealing with disasters driven by climate change.

EMU now hosts the Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions (CSCS) /now/news/category/cscs/ and we are in conversation with them about how to bring the issues of climate change and the related conflict and violence problems more fully into our educational programs.

There is always more to be done, of course. If you have ideas for how CJP would be working on these issues, I would love to hear more.

What exactly is being done by the CJP program to combat Fascism and its growth in America? What exactly is the CJP staff promoting as a non-violent method to stand with immigrants, against continued incarceration of black and brown bodies and flagrant disregard of Climate Change?

I will listen to the podcast asap to see if my questions were adequately addressed.

Hope all is well with everyone.