We’ve collected a number of resources that include videos, articles, tools, and more on the issues of mass incarceration and deportation that are being used every day by organizers and change makers.
(note: resources may link to external sites)
Together, Race Forward, Mass Freedom, Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC), and Grassroots Asians Rising (GAR) gathered organizers in December 2020 with the goal of collectively learning more about the history of abolitionist movements in Pacific Islander and Asian communities, and possibilities for an abolitionist future in the same.
Immigrant and refugee rights are increasingly under attack by U.S. institutions, while racially derogatory and dehumanizing language used in the media and political discourse has paved the way for a rise in hate crimes against immigrants. We need to strongly reject efforts to criminalize immigrants hold our media accountable for dropping the i-word.
“Our Southeast Asian American community has been fighting deportation for almost 2 decades, to overturn policies that target our community members with past criminal convictions, and their families, for separation.
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. Beyond Walls and Cages offers scholarly and activist perspectives on these issues and explores how the international community can move toward a more humane future.
We must fight back against our country’s addiction to mass incarceration and mass deportation. This toolkit is designed to provide a pathway to change – the building blocks to combat ongoing collusion between local law enforcement and immigration authorities.
Whether it’s stop-and-frisk or no-knock raids, both undocumented immigrants and U.S.-born Black folks have a vested stake in redefining what sanctuary really means.
Thousands have signed a petition for her release and rallied for her freedom but thus far, ICE has refused to release her, even under order of supervision. Even when the ICE counsel agreed to set bond, but her immigration judge has refused to allow it.
Although the U.S. is only 5% of the global population it holds nearly 25% of world’s imprisoned population. The racial dimensions of this are even more alarming. Black people now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated populations.
“The War on Drugs is a War on Black people and The War for Border Control is a war on undocumented people, and in the context of Chicago, on Latino people. We will not stand for this criminalization of our bodies and those of our brown allies.”
Decarcerate PA is a grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. They demand that PA stop building prisons, reduce the prison population, and reinvest money in their communities.