Campaign Aims to Build Rural Economy on Dairy, Not Prisons
In 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down four state prisons and cut $8 million from the Department of Corrections’ budget. This is good news for prison reform activists,...
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Beginning March 23rd: Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement
The Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS) has helped launch Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC) to start Monday, March 23, 2015. Actions will happen on the 23rd...
Activists Unite Over Common Goal
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Groups from all over Vermont gathered for a public forum in the Queen City to discuss ways to bring change to the Green Mountain State. “By coming...
Climate Change Protesters Cited Outside Missoula Office of Daines
Fourteen activists were cited Friday with misdemeanor trespassing after staging a protest in the Missoula office of U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, according to an organizer. "Our initial inkling was that...
FYI: Here’s How You Can Help Local Day Laborers
From Change.org : For the past 8 years, day laborers have sought work from the Home Depot on Roosevelt Blvd in Northeast Philadelphia. Anywhere from 30 to nearly 100 workers...
Why Boston's Cash-Strapped Transit System Is Piloting Lower Fares for Students: The MBTA's forthcoming Youth and University passes are the result of years of activism.
It's been a long, hard winter for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, but starting in June, a new pilot program will let many more Boston-area teenagers and college students ride...
Successful motion in court strengthens California prisoners’ case against solitary
Oakland – Pelican Bay prisoners named as plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the use of solitary confinement in California gained an important victory yesterday as U.S. District Judge...
Incite and Colour of Violence
Pragya Esh interviews Rachel Caidor, organizer with Incite: Women & Trans* People of Color Against Violence and "Color of Violence 4," Incite's 4th conference to address violence against women of...
Beyond Reform: Essays Call for a Sweeping Reassessment of Incarceration
Prison populations have exploded in the United States, with a nearly eight-fold increase in the number of people behind bars from 1970 to today. In the initial decades of that...
Students Walk Out on Testing, Rise for Black Trans Lives and Unionize
1 . The Weeklong Walkout—and More On Monday, February 23, at 10:25 AM, 250 students from Santa Fe, New Mexico, walked out to protest the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness...