Overturning Felony Disenfranchisement in Southern States
In the last U.S. presidential election in 2016, 6.1 million Americans could not vote because of laws that disenfranchise people with past felony convictions. Read about it Facing South.
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Voter Suppression Is Destroying US Democracy – In 2020, Expect More
by Carol Anderson America hangs in the balance. The elections in November next year will determine whether the United States continues down the road of authoritarian dynastic rule or reclaims the work of expanding and…
Public Safety for the 99%
Ending overpolicing will require much more than better oversight and training By Alex S. Vitale Policing needs to be reformed. We do indeed need new training regimes, enhanced accountability, and a greater public role in…
Global Corporate Financial Speculation Fuels Gentrification
By Yosef Brody PUSH, a new documentary that had its world premiere at the CPH:DOX film festival in Copenhagen in March, where it won the festival’s Audience Award, is coming to the U.S., and not…
ICE Raids Benefit Bosses by Creating Fear in Workers
“The employers who are willing to hire us will take advantage of us. They will threaten to turn us in. They will want to pay us less because they will say they are taking a…
American Mothers Get a Raw Deal
Other countries show it doesn’t have to be that way. Read the original article at Huffington Post.
In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream
Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine Read the original article on Lithub.
Efforts to Overturn Wrongful Criminal Convictions Are Growing
Duke Law School’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic works in concert with the Duke Law Innocence Project, a volunteer student group with a shared mission. Read the original article on Facing South.
Big Banks Are Divesting From Private Prisons, Thanks to Anti-ICE Activism
As Trump has escalated his anti-immigrant policies, the prison divestment movement has become a broad coalition. Read the original article on Truthout.
Anti-immigrant Bill Targets Power of N.C. Sheriffs
House Bill 370 seeks to preempt the sheriffs’ authority by mandating cooperation with ICE. Read the original article on Facing South.