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Justice, Injustice and Human Rights
Fall 2009
Wednesday September 23, 2009
Journalism and Human Rights - Michael Maren, Amy Costello, George Krimsky
Wednesday September 30, 2009
film, The Exonerated
Wednesday October 14, 2009
Conviction and Innocence - Peter Reilly, Donald Connery, Andrew Schneider
Wednesday November 18, 2009
The Gay Experience in Film and Plays - Joyce Chopra, Bill C. Davis
documentary film, Gramercy Stories
Wednesday December 2, 2009
Writers on Human Rights - Roxana Robinson, Lynn Bloom, A. R. Gurney
Justice, Injustice and Human Rights Quotes compiled by Davyne Verstandig (pdf)
- American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut: http://www.acluct.org/
- American PEN Freedom to Write
- Enough Project: www.enoughproject.org
- Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org
- The Innocence Project
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University
http://www.innocenceproject.org/ - International Center for Journalists: http://www.icfj.org/
- Northwestern University School of Law Center for Wrongful Convictions
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/depts/clinic/wrongful/ - Truth in Justice
http://www.truthinjustice.org/ - United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
- Vital Voices: www.vitalvoices.org
Additional Resources for the Series
Allan, Stuart, Prasun Sonwalkar, and Cynthia Carter. "Bearing Witness: Citizen Journalism and Human Rights Issues." Globalisation, Societies & Education 5.3 (2007): 373-89. Print.
American Justice. A Son's Confession. Dir. King, Van, Jonathan Towers, B. Kurtis, et al. New York : A & E Home Video : Marketed and distributed in the U.S. by New Video, 2002. 1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in [library record]
Ayers, William. Teaching Toward Freedom : Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom. Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 2004. Print. [library record]
Ayers, William, Jean Ann Hunt, and Therese Quinn. Teaching for Social Justice : A Democracy and Education Reader. New York: New Press : Teachers College Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 1998. Print. [library record]
Barthel, Joan. A Death in Canaan. 1st ed. New York: Dutton, 1976. Print. [library record]
Blank, Jessica, and Erik Jensen. The Exonerated : A Play. 1st ed. New York: Faber, 2004. Print. [Library Record]
---. Living Justice : Love, Freedom, and the Making of the Exonerated. 1st hardcover ed. New York: Atria Books, 2005. Print. [Library Record]
Christianson, Scott. Innocent : Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases. New York: New York UP, 2004. Print.
Committing Poetry in Times of War. Dir. Stavros, Eric Sirotkin, Sal Treppiedi, et al. IndiePix, 2008. 1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.[Library record]
Connery, Donald S. Convicting the Innocent : The Story of a Murder, a False Confession, and the Struggle to Free a "Wrong Man". Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books, 1995. Print.
Connery, Donald S. Guilty Until Proven Innocent. New York: Putnam, 1976. Print. [Library record]
Cook, Kerry Max. Chasing Justice : My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit. 1st ed. New York: William Morrow, 2007. Print.
Corry, John. "Arthur Miller Turns Detective in Murder [Peter Reilly Case]." New York Times 15 Dec. 1975: 65. Print.
The Exonerated. Dir. Balaban, Bob, Greg Schultz, Steven Tabakin, et al. Monterey Video, 2006. 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. [Library record]
Fellows, Lawrence. "Youth [Peter Reilly] Sentenced in Mother's Death." New York Times 25 May 1974: 59. Print.
Gandy, Kim. "Tragedy, Hope and the Media’s Abuse of Power." 16 June 2009. Web. 24 Sept. 2009.
Garrels, Anne, and Vint Lawrence. Naked in Baghdad. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Print. [Library record]
Garrett, Brandon L. "Judging Innocence." Columbia Law Review 108.1 (2008): 55-142. Print.
Greene, Alexis, and Shirley Lauro. Front Lines : Political Plays by American Women. New York: New Press, 2009. Print. [Library record]
Hamilton, John Maxwell, and George A. Krimsky. Hold the Press : The Inside Story on Newspapers. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Print. [Library record]
Huff, C. Ronald, Arye Rattner, and Edward Sagarin. Convicted but Innocent : Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 1996. Print. [Library record]
Hulse, Carl. "House, 281-146, Votes to Define Antigay Attacks as Hate Crimes." New York Times 9 Oct. 2009: A1. Print.
Johnson, Gail. "False Confessions and Fundamental Fairness: The Need for Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations." Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 6.3 (Spring 1997): 719. Print.
Kirtz, Bill. Should Journalists be Crusaders?. 85 Vol. , 1997. Print.
Knight, Michael. "Connecticut Report is Critical of Reilly's Prosecution." New York Times 2 Jun. 1977: 44. Print.
Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky : Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Print. [Library record]
Kristof, Nicholas D., and Sheryl Wudunn. "The Women's Crusade.(Magazine Desk)." The New York Times Magazine 23 August 2009: 28(L). Web. 24 Sept. 2009
Maren, Michael. The Road to Hell : The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity. New York: Free Press, 1997. Print. [Library record]
---. "The Africa Lobby : Building a Constituency Against Apartheid." Africa Report 29.3 May/June (1984): 55. Print.
Maren, Michael. "U.S. Callousness and Mozambique Massacres." New York Times Aug 22 1987: 1.27. Print.
McNamara, Eileen. "Journalism's True Calling." Boston Globe May 11 2005: B.1. Print.
Morrison, Toni, and PEN (Organization). Burn this Book : PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word. 1st ed. New York, NY: HarperStudio, 2009. Print. [Library record]
Mudzongo, G., et al. Human Rights and the Media. Avondale, Causeway, Harare, Zimbabwe: Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa, 2002. Print.
O'Brien, Joseph A. "Grand Juror to Probe Peter Reilly Case." The Hartford Courant 24 Dec. 1976: 1A. Print.
----. "Reilly Denies Killing His Mother." The Hartford Courant 3 Apr. 1974: 9. Print
----. "Reilly Freed on Bond of $50,000 After Anonymous Donor's Gift." The Hartford Courant 22 Feb. 1974: 37. Print.
----. "Slaying Arrest Stuns Villagers [Peter Reilly]." The Hartford Courant1 Oct. 1973: 1. Print.
Okuda, Yoshitane. "Guarding Human Rights in Broadcasting: Japan's Five-Year Experiment." NHK Broadcasting Studies.2 (2003): 102-24. Print.
"[Peter Reilly] Case Chronology." The Hartford Courant 14 Oct. 1977: 13. Print.
Pinto, Juliet. "Muzzling the Watchdog: The Case of Disappearing Watchdog Journalism from Argentine Mainstream News." Journalism 9.6 (2008): 750-74. Print.
Power, Samantha. "Reporting Atrocity: War, Neutrality, and the Danger of Taking Sides." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 9.3 (2004): 3-11. Print.
Saint, Chandler B., and George A. Krimsky. Making Freedom : The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. Print.[Library record]
Sen, Amartya. The Idea of Justice. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. Print.
Tribe, Laurence H. The Invisible Constitution. Oxford England] ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print. [Library record]
Wald, Matthew L. "New Witness found in 1973 Reilly Case." New York Times 19 Jan. 1979: A1. Print.
Weinberg, Steve. "Wrongful Convictions: Is Overhaul of the Criminal Justice System Needed?" CQ Researcher 19.15 (2009): 345-72. Print.
Westervelt, Saundra Davis, and John A. Humphrey. Wrongly Convicted : Perspectives on Failed Justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2001. Print.
"Youth [Peter Reilly] Convicted of Killing Mother." New York Times 13 Apr. 1974: 19. Print.
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