{"id":28555,"date":"2014-01-17T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=28555"},"modified":"2014-02-07T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T22:56:00","slug":"justice-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/justice-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Does justice for all exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><i>by Bjorn Krondorfer<br \/>\nDirector of NAU\u2019s Martin-Springer Institute<br \/>\nand Endowed Professor of Religious Studies<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A new year brings with it the hope for peace, equality and justice, not only in our communities but throughout the United States and around the globe. But the sobering reality of daily news reports can be overwhelming, and often I am prompted to ask myself, \u201cDoes justice for all exist? Does it also exist here in the U.S.?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a nation, we like to aspire to this ideal. But if we take a hard look at our overall social welfare, we know that the reality is different. Discrimination and abuse need our attention. At Northern Arizona University\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Martin-Springer\/\">Martin-Springer Institute<\/a>, we are attentive to issues of injustice in view of the legacies of the Holocaust and totalitarian ideologies. What we do locally has implications globally: I know this from working with a diversity of students here at NAU and from working with groups in conflict in Europe, Israel, Palestine and South Africa. We must start somewhere, and no action is too small to have some positive effects.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to invite the NAU community to join us in examining the question \u201cDoes justice for all exist?\u201d as NAU\u2019s Martin-Springer Institute hosts <a title=\"Civil rights attorney speaking as part of Holocaust Remembrance Day\" href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/civil-rights-attorney-speaking-part-holocaust-remembrance-day\/\">Morris Dees<\/a>, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC is committed to redress shortcomings in an educational system that continues to fail a disproportionate number of minority children, many of whom end up in the juvenile justice system. It supports migrants that have little workplace protection and remain vulnerable to exploitation. Extremist groups continue to spread messages of hate. The SPLC also advocates for legal protection of the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Justice for All: An Evening with Morris Dees,\u201d takes places at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Ardrey Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The event free for NAU and CCC students\/staff\/faculty and $15 for the public. Tickets may be purchased through the <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.ticketforce.com\/ordertickets.asp?p=1225&amp;backurl=default.asp\">NAU Central Ticket Office<\/a> at (928) 523-5661.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/justice-exist\/\">by Bjorn Krondorfer Director of NAU\u2019s Martin-Springer Institute and Endowed Professor of Religious Studies A new year brings with it the hope for peace, equality and justice, not only in our communities but throughout the United States and around the globe. But the sobering reality of daily news reports can be overwhelming, and often I&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":28556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}