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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nagatsugu Asato & Nobuo Shiga The legacy of colonialism has fostered structural discrimination worldwide, creating cycles of alienation and poverty among subjugated and marginalized communities. Okinawa’s poverty rate is about 35 percent, which is twice the national average. percent of the country’s total land area.

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Should We Build New Homes in a Burning World?

NonProfit Quarterly

With the increase of new industries in the area has come a flood of new construction; thousands of workers at a new car manufacturing plant, for example, need a place to live. But Casa Grande is a city in a desert, and not having enough water to supply these new housing developments may stop construction before it’s even started.

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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

6 And it got me thinking about how the construction of this dam reflects a broad and long pattern of environmental injustice globally. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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How to End Wage Theft—and Advance Immigrant Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Wage theft is not a legal term but rather a term used by advocates, attorneys, and policymakers when describing any action by employers that deprives a worker of receiving wages they are entitled to under the law. The law also strengthened workers’ options for recourse when employers fail to comply with these provisions.

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How Mobile Home Owners Organize for Land Ownership and Climate Resiliency

NonProfit Quarterly

A Changing Reputation Modular home construction has existed in some form for over a century. Over the years, the mobile home has acquired a less desirable reputation, a stigma that the homes are cheaply made or associated with poverty. And the average construction cost of a manufactured home is just $90,000.

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GuideStar Pulls Hate Group Designations After Threats

The NonProfit Times

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. The removals will take place this week. We must do better,” he wrote.

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GuideStar Pulls Hate Group Designations After Threats

The NonProfit Times

Growing harassment and threats directed toward leadership and staff have led watchdog database GuideStar to remove its flagging of 46 suspected hate groups as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — at least for the time being. The removals will take place this week. We must do better,” he wrote.

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