Saturday, May 2, 2020

Criminal Justice and Racism and Ageism and other discrimination related links 050220



Freezing Jail Cells, Broken Showers, and Covid-19: More than a month into New York City’s coronavirus outbreak, life in one of the most notorious jails continues to deteriorate.

Teenager charged with shoving Marine vet in front of train, killing him

A Caucus for Black Youth

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020

A Feminism for the Working Class: In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich charged the feminist movement with advancing only “educated, middle-class women.” Her critique is more pertinent than ever.

Out of Prison, Into Alt-Prison: The industry profiting from prison halfway houses.

Why Alaska Native Villages Were Quick To Self-Isolate: Scarred by a legacy of colonial diseases, Alaska tribes quickly cut off the outside world.

As a Domestic Violence Survivor, I Don’t Always Feel Safer at Home: Shelter in place orders can remind those of us with C-PTSD of past times we were trapped.

Illinois Prisoners Say They Don’t Have Access to Hand Sanitizer, Cleaning Supplies or Soap: Illinois state prisons are a coronavirus time bomb, activists warn.

In Conversation with Rep. Jayapal: Protecting Workers During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Inside the Chaotic, Underfunded World of Probation and Parole: The system is failing the people it supervises—and we all pay the cost.

Can Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Survive a Second Trump Term?  It’s a proposition better left untested.

7 Medieval African Kingdoms Every Black Person Should Know About

Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Black Miami doctor handcuffed while helping homeless during pandemic: “Situations like this have escalated into black men being shot all across the country,” Dr. Armen Henderson said.

Racism: The most dangerous 'pre-existing condition'.  Black Americans are dying disproportionately from COVID-19 and there is a reason for it.

Maxine Waters: Trump Is Setting Us Up To Be Killed, "In A Civil War Some Of Us Will Be The First To Be Killed"

Inside Jokes: How a prison comedy program featuring Fred Armisen has helped transform inmates’ lives.

Prison conditions key to controlling coronavirus spread in U.S.: Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, talks with Rachel Maddow about the importance of reducing prison populations and improving sanitation in U.S. prisons not only for the sake of the health of prisoners and prison employees in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, but as part of the broader plan to control the spread of the virus to all Americans.

“We Are Resilient:” The Power of the Black Community

Tlaib Refuses to Mention Jews in Holocaust Remembrance Day Tweet

From Black Power to Black Establishment: The curious legacy of a radical slogan

Joseph Lowery, Organizer for Justice

Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The U.S. Prison Pandemic

After Finding Oil, These Native Americans Were Murdered: The Osage people became famously rich with oil money in the 1920s. Then they started turning up dead.

Lest We Forget: Australia’s brutal treatment of Aboriginal people

Octogenarian Veteran Fearful of COVID-19 to Be Released from Prison to Halfway House

Trial Set for Case Involving War Veteran Shot by Police Officers Inside His Home

South African anti-apartheid veteran Denis Goldberg dies

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