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Students as Suspects: The LA Unified School District Police Department and the Policing of Black Bodies

Policing Our Students

Million Dollar Hod Project Report on Policing in LA Schools

The Right to Remain Students

ACLU report on school policing in the state of California

ACLU of Southern California

Website for the Southern California branch of the The American Civil Liberties Union

Million Dollar Hood Project

UCLA research project mapping out LA policing statistics

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported.

Most of the argument is developed through the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) essays and reactions to the compilation. Laws, humanitarian efforts, and wars are also studied.

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Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

Many other research papers, articles, books, and sources of research were referencd in the article. The author read and studied a lot of research in various areas and covering all of the topics discussed in this paper, then strengthened ideas and concepts with enough support from hard research to write this article.

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The Waiting Room

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What parts of the film did you find most persuasive and compelling? Why?

I was most interested by how hard the doctors worked beyond the medical stuff to care for the patients. Whether it is making sure they have somewhere warm to be discharged to or keeping them long enough that they can get the medicaltions they need, they really do more than medicine.

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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Paul E Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, Salmaan Keshavjee are listed as the authors of this paper. They work with the health workers in suffering countries, like Haiti. Farmer is a co-founder of Partners in Health, as well as a physician and anthropologist. Stulac is an MD, MPH, specializing in pediatrics, and is also associated with PIH. Keshavjee is an MD, PhD, professor at Harvard of Global Health and Social Medicine. They are all professionals in the field of medicine, and through the PIH, they are well acquainted with responding to global health issues.