HUMAN JUSTICE FUND
Launching our campaign to end mass incarceration by building community generational wealth and health.
The Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice and Healing is shifting spending away from criminal justice reforms and towards Human Justice investments.
Human Justice = Human Rights + Human Development
Moving from criminal justice to Human Justice is about recognizing that continued spending of resources on systems reform does not change community conditions. Ultimately, community conditions are the best predictor of incarceration and recidivism.
The safest neighborhoods don’t have the most police. They have the most resources.
Human Justice is about directing resources into communities destroyed by mass incarceration. These resources must be used to fund Human Rights such as guaranteed income, housing, healthcare, etc. These resources must also fund Human Development - opportunities for community residents to own homes and land, build cooperative businesses, community institutions, community-led education, etc.
By stabilizing communities through providing Human Rights + by allowing communities a chance to grow wealth and sustain health, i.e., Human Development, we will achieve Human Justice.
EDDIE ELLIS WAY
STREET NAMING CAMPAIGN
From Million Dollar Blocks to NuLegacy Neighborhoods
We are launching the Human Justice Fund to transform Million Dollar Blocks into NuLegacy Neighborhoods by implementing evidence-based reparations programs - getting resources directly to people, families, and communities destroyed by mass incarceration.
From systems reform to community transformation
Programs
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We connect Black, Indigenous, Queer and Trans New Yorkers whose lives have been devastated by incarceration to the regenerative power of nature and land.
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We engage, train and hire formerly incarcerated people to design and implement community-led public safety and conflict mediation without involvement from police and prosecution.
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We invest in the growth of BIPOC-owned small businesses and help them hire people from our local community. We are transforming the employer-employee relationship to emphasize co-ownership and community generational wealth.
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We facilitate an inclusive, barrier-free, no-cost learning space for the community. The goal is to develop resilience, agility and leadership to reimagine and shape a more equitable world rooted in community cooperation and not rugged individualism.
We cannot achieve justice if the starting point is criminal.
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