mass incarceration
Amending the 13th Amendment: Lawmakers aim to end legalized prison slavery
December 4, 2020Sen. Jeff Merkley: 13th Amendment “continued the process of a white power class mistreating Black Americans, creating generations of poverty, family breakup, and mass incarceration."
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Prisoners and the formerly incarcerated demand the right to vote
October 14, 2020Disenfranchisement of voters is a part of our country’s racist history and will take a lot of work to be dismantled.
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Florida campaign underway to pay ‘poll taxes’ for the formerly incarcerated
September 24, 2020Without Florida, Trump's re-election hopes are doomed. That's why GOP officials there are blocking the votes of as many people as possible.
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From ‘Free Angela Davis’ to #NoNewJailsDC: Organizing against incarceration across generations
May 22, 2020The event featured elders from the Communist Party USA who were involved in the Committee to Free Angela Davis and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
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Black youth stage Emancipation Day protest for D.C. inmates amid COVID-19 crisis
April 20, 2020Emancipation Day protests have a new meaning in the age of COVID-19.
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