Michigan residents have been coming together as apart of the Silence the Violence Rally for nearly over a decade. Silence the Violence continues to be an opportunity for people to show their commitment to ending violence in their communities and has grown from a local rally to a national event. This year’s rally locations have […]
2020 presidential candidate Anita Belle held a reparations summit in Detroit to commemorate the 400 year anniversary of the end to racially based chattel slavery. She held the two day event on June 18th and 19th at the black owned Space Lab building downtown. The event was comprised of several topics of discussion that included The […]
Prisoners Continue to Strike in the Aftermath The organizing abolitionist space is alive and robust in the United States and I’m excited to have witnessed some of the incredible work happening in the organizing space in Gainesville, Florida. Florida led the country with the passing of Amendment 4 that rein franchised hundreds of thousands of […]
As we move into the Decarceration Era, organizers in different states are pushing prison officials to dramatically reduce their incarcerated populations. Proposed criminal justice reform legislation is sweeping the nation from the West Coast to the East. On the West cost, in California Initiate Justice organizers are advocating for those incarcerated as youth to have […]
During the month of May we often take time to encourage people to talk about mental health and self-care. Health is defined as physical, mental, and social wellbeing. There are several factors in health including one’s environment, relationships and education. Along with these in order to live a healthy life individuals require a healthful diet, […]
The Right2Vote Campaign was born out of 2018’s National Prison Strike where incarcerated citizens led a nationwide demonstration against the abhorrent conditions of United States prisons. The strike was so vast that it spread across 17 states into 3 additional regions outside of the U.S. Prisoners made their demands known worldwide and what seemed to […]
As a Michigan native I’ve done a lot of work on behalf of our incarcerated residents, especially last year’s Good Time Campaign promoting HB 5666. I get questions from people interested in contributing to the movement about how they can get involved. Often people don’t know where to start and I always tell them that […]
What can we do for the 2.4 millions of men women and trapped in our a nation’s prisons?What can we do for the 38,000 people incarcerated in South Carolina?What can we do for the 1,200 incarcerated in Lee County? We’ve been asking ourselves these questions since the era mass incarceration began to raise eyebrows once […]
Currently the only two states in which incarcerated individuals have the right to vote. In Maine and Vermont incarcerated individuals never lost their voting rights. These two states also have the whitest prison populations and with the realization that policies never came to strip the rights of incarcerated citizens in the north-most region of the […]
I purposely chose the word facetious, because South Carolina’s Dept. of Correction’s Director Bryan Stirling has absurdly decided to address serious issued in South Carolin’a prisons with impotent legislation. The problem in South Carolina’s prisons is NOT the fact that a few prisoners have obtained access to cell phones. The problem is that South Carolina’s […]