The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Green New Deal, Part VII: No Justice, No Peace, It's Time to Defund the Police
The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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No More Crime and Punishment: The National Prison Strike of 2018, Part II
Perhaps the biggest problem to tackle in the criminal justice system is why so many people have been incarcerated to begin with.
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45 Years After Attica Uprising, Prisoners Are Rebelling Again
Last month, inmates across the country embarked on what organizers have called the largest prison strike in U.S. history, an ambitious mass protest against prison labor and inhumane prison conditions.
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Prison Labor Revolts Shake the Foundations of the Corporate State, Part I
Prison protests slated for the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising include a nationally coordinated prisoner work stoppage.
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Civil Rights Groups Tackle Illegal Bail Schemes As More Poor People Fill Jails
The Supreme Court and the Justice Department have both said that incarcerating someone solely because they can't afford to post cash bail is unconstitutional, but that was the policy in Ascension Parish until just a few weeks ago.
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"Who Pays" Report Shows Why Women Of Color Bear the Costs of Mass Incarceration
Surveys of hundreds of formerly incarcerated people and their families in 14 states show that the true costs, emotional and financial, continue long after incarceration ends and reach far beyond the individual being punished
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Broke Cities and Broken Bodies – It’s Time to Make the Connections
The bankers get our money, charge us for taking it and leave cities’ budgets bare. Schools close, small businesses shut down, social programs fold and only the cops remain.
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Turning the Tide: A Newspaper for People In Prison Gets A Second Wind
Through a grassroots fundraising campaign, Vanessa Carlisle was able to turn this L.A.-based newspaper for incarcerated people into a sustainable publication.
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Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed On Prisons
Former inmates have joined human rights advocates to organize nationwide demonstrations targeting everything from private phone-and-money-transfer companies to prison food vendors.
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Columbia Students Launch Divestment Campaign To Get Money Out Of Prisons
Columbia Prison Divest pressured the university to dump $8 million in Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s largest private prison company, as well as shares in other behemoths of the private security industry.
