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Stop Secure Communities
In solidarity with advocacy groups and community organizations fighting for immigrant rights in New York City and across the United States who are being harassed by these racist, anti-immigrant laws. For more information see Colorlines, New York 1.
Newsreel March 23 2012
Indigenous Women’s Sexual Rights Further Trampled Blog- Why Trayvon Martin is not “America’s problem.” The White Savior Industrial Complex Hundreds Protest and Radio Weaponized Against Lincoln Correctional Facility in West Harlem Ugandan Public Opinion Widens on Sexuality Racism Review – March 20th 2012 Columbian Troops and FARC have Deadliest Faceoff in 5 Years Conservatives Code Lack of Substantive [...]
Prison Labor and The Fair Labor Standards (FLSA)
Project Attica has noted in past entries on this site how the use of prison labor violates FLSA because prison laborers are not paid the minimum wages for their labor and they cannot sue their employers for their injuries. Although this is not new, this problem has evaded public scrutiny for a longtime until the [...]
Anthology Call for Submissions from: Survivorsinsoli.blogspot.com
Working Title: Challenging Convictions: Survivors of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Writing on Solidarity with Prison Abolition. Completed submissions due: June 15, 2012. Like much prison abolition work, the call for this anthology comes from frustration and hope: frustration with organizers against sexual assault and domestic violence who treat the police as a universally available and as [...]
Pedagogy of The Oppressed…
As New York City public high schools brace themselves for tremendous backlash from the Department of Education for what they perceive as the students inability to pass a test, these knee-jerk changes are having far-reaching consequences that are silenced in the predominant discourse. At the same time, the educational hammer is also coming down on [...]
What is the cost of mass incarceration in your neighborhood?
No one is free when others are oppressed…. Time and again prison abolitionists come across the difficult and critical problem of showing how all of us, irrespective of whether we know or do not know someone who is in prison, are affected by the consequences of mass incarceration. As if the human toil were not [...]