By Deqah Hussein-Wetzel Introduction There is something incredibly powerful about storytelling—about hearing a person’s raw, lived experiences in real time. Having just read about Tracy McCarter’s experience as a former Columbia School of Nursing student who was incarcerated for her… Continue Reading
By Reakash Walters A Thoughtful Exposé of the Power of Community Organizing In her book Radical Acts of Justice Jocelyn Simonson argues that collective, community-based tactics, including bail funds, court watching, people’s budgets, and participatory and collective defence are… Continue Reading
Jocelyn Simonson, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration (New York: New Press, 2023). Published excerpts of the book can be found here: Essay in Inquest, focusing on being radicalized through collective care; Excerpt in The Nation,… Continue Reading
Adams, Herbert B., ed. History of Coöperation in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1888. Akuno, Kali. The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy. n.d. https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jackson-KushPlan.pdf. Akuno, Kali, and Ajamu Nangwaya. Jackson Rising: The Struggle… Continue Reading