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La historia de cómo el trabajo de un pequeño grupo de personas creció hasta alcanzar el tamaño de su vocación: garantizar que el cuidado de la salud sea un derecho, no un privilegio. Salud y Paz es la historia que hay detrás de este improbable esfuerzo: el joven de 20 años que planta la bandera en su pequeña ciudad natal de Middletown, Connecticut; la hija de jornalero que se abrió camino hacia el norte durante la gran migración y se convierte en la estrella polar del impulso para transformar el cuidado de la salud en la comunidad; el hijo de un emigrante judío y farmaceuta que se separa de sus compañeros para apoyar la causa; el músico que tocaba en las grandes bandas del Sur en los años 30, que pierde sus dientes y ahora está decidido a asegurarse de que otros no pierdan los suyos; y el estudiante universitario y futuro senador estadounidense que ayuda a comprar el edificio para que la clínica gratuita no cierre definitivamente. Una joven enfermera practicante se une a la organización cuando ésta se expande más allá de un pueblo de Connecticut y, hoy en día, el CHC y su Instituto Weitzman llevan a cabo programas en todo EE.UU., transformando la prestación de cuidados de salud para las poblaciones que han sido ignoradas. Disponible en inglés: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1959262009

The relationship between courts and democracy is the central question of this book. The authors explore the evolution of adjudication into its modern form by mapping the remarkable run of the political icon of Justice and by tracing the development of public spaces dedicated to justice-courthouses.Resnik and Curtis analyze how Renaissance "rites" of judgment turned into democratic "rights," requiring governments to protect judicial independence and to provide open and public hearings. Courts developed, alongside the press and the postal services, as mechanisms for building the public sphere and for calling the government to account. During the twentieth century, all persons gained access to rights of fair treatment in courts.Today, however, private processes are replacing public ones, as public and private sectors promote settlement, devolve decision-making to agencies, and outsource judgments to arbitrators and mediators. Often clad in glass to mark justice's transparency, new courthouse designs celebrate adjudication without reflecting on the problems of access, injustice, opacity, and the complexity of rendering impartial judgments.With more than 220 images, readers can see both the longevity of aspirations for the Virtue Justice and the transformation of courts, as well as understand that, while venerable, courts are also vulnerable institutions that ought (like the post and the press) not be taken for granted. The argument is that the movement away from public adjudication is a problem for democracies because adjudication has important contributions to make to democracy.

Our Community at Winchester: The City and its Workers at New Haven''s Gun Factory is based on an exhibit produced by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association in 2013 about workers and the community they created at the Winchester Repeating Arms plant in New Haven, Connecticut, throughout the 20th century. Material has been added to the book based on new research. Some of the original information has been revised and/or expanded upon for clarity.The book traces the workers'' long struggle to form a union as they were repeatedly met by powerful management intransigence and resistance. It follows the even greater challenges they faced as the company tried to break strikes, downsized, moved key operations out of New Haven, and repeatedly threatened to close if union members did not offer concessions. It examines the relationship between the City of New Haven and the changing corporate entities that operated the plant as loans and agreements based on guaranteed levels of employment repeatedly had to be amended or abrogated. Finally, it looks at the new "face of New Haven" in the 21st century as exemplified by Winchester Lofts and the companies now occupying Science Park where the factory buildings once stood. The book incorporates 18 interviews with former Winchester employees or their family members that reveal the mixed emotions that many had about their workplace.