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S.T.A.M.P. was established in 2005 in response to the frequency with
which young people are referred to juvenile and adult court systems
by schools, parents, service providers, and other community stakeholders.
We believe that the planet’s current ecological and economic crisis is
a direct result of criminal justice and environmental policies which
promote globalization and massive industrial development over
cultural diversity and community-based solutions to social problems.
We challenge society’s current over-reliance on criminalization and
incarceration by connecting 500-year-old issues of prejudice, inequality,
oppression, and discrimination with the increased use of policing,
supervision, exploitation, and resource extraction nationwide and abroad.
We witness the ways in which these life-threatening conditions
disproportionately affect communities of color from Indigenous people
in the Arctic on the frontlines of global climate change to poor communities
fighting neighborhood health hazards caused by big business, to immigrants
struggling to survive and students of color in inner-city and rural classrooms
being fast-tracked on a school-to-prison pipeline.
Understanding that the health of Mother Earth and her inhabitants is linked
to the preservation of biodiversity which is directly linked to the preservation
of diversity of cultures, lifeways and knowledge systems, we work to empower
youth and adults to identify the issues which adversely impact their lives
and actively challenge institutional imbalances which threaten
their futures and the futures of the Seventh Generation.
connecting the dots between pollution | prisons | sustainability | social change