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Our intern Jordan just finished reading “Good News about Injustice,” and wanted to share his thoughts.
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From its title to its conclusion, Gary Haugen’s book, “Good News About Injustice,” will inspire conversations, deep thinking, and most importantly, self reflection.

Recently I was catching up with an old friend and he had asked me if I had been reading any good books. I responded by telling him that I had started this book called “Good News About Injustice.” My friend looked at me for a moment with confusion in his eyes, and asked me if there was any good news about injustice? I didn’t know how to respond.

The truth is, it would have been all too easy to just tell my friend what I had learned while reading the book. I could have easily reiterated points that Haugen makes in his book regarding hope and restoration in a world disillusioned by injustices such as poverty, disease, crime, and death. Instead, I recommended that he read the book because I believe that he would benefit far more from reading the book than I could provide in my meager description of it.

While I did refrain from telling my friend about what it was that I was learning whilst I was reading, that does not mean I wasn’t learning anything. Actually, quite contrary, I believe that I was learning more than I had felt equipped to share. It was as though I had eaten too much and was having trouble digesting it all.

A warning to all readers, Haugen’s book will challenge you. Within it there are stories of injustices that Haugen himself has seen firsthand. As an investigator in the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice, Director of the United Nations genocide investigations in Rwanda, and president and CEO of International Justice Mission, in Washington D.C., you can be sure that the stories you hear are well documented and credible.

As much trouble I had reading this book, due to the all-too-real stories of injustices occurring both internationally and domestically, Haugen left me with a sense of hope at the end of each chapter. That hope, which I have now mentioned three times, is in the fact that the injustices that plague the world are not supposed to be left unaddressed. This injustice is supposed to be fought by everyday people who are charged with the mandate to stand up against the oppression that haunts this world.

To respond to my friend’s question, in summary, what is the “Good News About Injustice?” The answer is that the injustice, which seems so debilitating around the world, is supposed to be met with resistance, and that resistance can, and will, overcome injustice. In his book, Haugen offers stories of courageous opponents, whom one would never expect, who have stood up to injustice and have succeeded, which inevitably acts as a catalyst for change for the reader to act against injustice, and to seek justice throughout the world.

Gary Haugen’s book “Good News About Injustice” is a must read for any justice seeker!

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