Cuomo the Merciless
Victoria Law @ The Appeal; excerpt below: In 2015, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced the creation of an Executive Clemency Bureau to identify people in the state’s prison system who might be worthy of commutation. The announcement sparked hope among the...
Let Us Survive: Demanding the Decriminalization of Sex Work
Excerpted from a talk given by Red S. for the DSA NYC’s Strike & Labor Solidarity working group. Red currently organizes with the Support Ho(s)e Collective, coordinates the Justice for Alisha Walker defense campaign and actively works with Survived &...
We Can’t Fight Rape Culture Without Fighting Mass Incarceration
Aviva Stahl @ Broadly; excerpt below: In prison, strip and cavity searches are a routine, mandated part of everyday life, and prisoners can have no expectation of privacy when they’re showering or changing. You can be placed in contexts where you are completely at the...
Bresha Meadows: Survived and Punished Video
Bresha Meadows was 14 years old in July 2016 when she allegedly used the gun that her father had brandished for years against her and her family (terrorizing and abusing them) to shoot him in his sleep. Bresha long learned to fear her father who had repeatedly...
Love Letters to Ny Nourn
Yuri Speaks, a blog launched by Asian Law Caucus Yuri Kochiyama Fellowship for formerly incarcerated Asian Pacific Islander immigrants, recently posted an open letter from criminalized domestic violence survivor, Ny Nourn. Ny is California-based, Cambodian survivor...Commutations Campaign Posts
