The opposite of Poverty is Justice…
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
Bryan A. Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a professor at New York University School of Law. He has gained national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color in the criminal justice system. Stevenson has assisted in securing relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, advocated for poor people and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice. (wiki)
An incredibly moving talk at TED by Stevenson. And a lot of profound and soul-searching questions are raised about all of us who supposedly come from and represent a wealthy North American community and yet close their eyes so readily to all of the community’s contradictions, not to say abuses and injustices. How do we do it? Stevenson talks of a ‘disconnect’ in our modern world…link to TED