Webinar: Exclusive look into secretive immigration detention contracting system
When: August 25th@ 12 p.m. PDT/2 p.m. CDT/3 p.m. EDT.
CampaignZERO Launched
CampaignZERO presents a comprehensive package of policy reforms to end police violence in America. It encourages people to petition their elected representatives to implement 10 policy solution areas at the local, state, and federal level of government to achieve an America where police do not kill people.
USHRN Statement on the State of Emergency of Anti-Trans Hate Violence
These numbers are likely on the conservative end as they are only the reported cases. When we include Mya Hall, a Black trans woman who was killed by the NSA, the number jumps up to 19 killings. Over half of the transgender women killed are under the age of 30 years old.
Urgent Action Fund
Urgent Action Fund partners with women’s movements worldwide to support women’s human rights defenders striving to create cultures of justice, equality and peace.
Brooklyn Community Foundation
Brooklyn Community Foundation is on a mission to spark [...]
California bans grand juries in fatal shootings by police
By Tracey Kaplan, San Joe Mercury News 08/11/2015 Gov. Jerry [...]
A Ferguson Syllabus: Reading a Movement
by Darnell Moore. Here are some essential readings from several astute activists, journalists and writers that have inspired, angered and challenged readers everywhere this past year. While this is in no way an exhaustive list, the following offers insider and outsider views of Ferguson, pushing all of us to consider the radical spirit and collective beauty illuminated in mass mobilized protests.
Black Panther cub on new era of civil action
by Malkia Cyril. Like many thousands of black activists, I waded through the multicultural waters of the last 20 years. Even as black organisers and activists actively built a solidarity movement with other communities of colour, anti-blackness prevailed without an organised counter. Until now.
I Am the Black Woman Who Interrupted the Netroots Presidential Town Hall, and This Is Why
By Tia Oso, Black Alliance for Just Immigration. I did this to focus the attention of the nation's largest gathering of progressive leaders and presidential hopefuls on the death of Sandra Bland and other black women killed while in police custody, because the most important and urgent issue of our day is structural violence and systemic racism that is oppressing and killing black women, men and children.
#SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women
Say Her Name responds to increasing calls for attention to police violence against Black women by offering a resource to help ensure that Black women’s stories are integrated into demands for justice, policy responses to police violence, and media representations of victims and survivors of police brutality.