Kava-HELL- NAW!

Photo by Matt H. Wade, CC-BY-SA-3.0, available at Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#/media/File:AuthorityOfLaw.JPG

The United States Supreme Court currently sits on the precipice, with four conservative and four liberal justices. The replacement for retired Justice Anthony Kennedy will determine the course of the court for at least the next half a century. President Trump has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill that role. His confirmation to the Supreme Court must be stopped.

Read More → 

Challenging Unopposed Prosecutors

Photo: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tombstone-courthouse-shp-courtroom.jpg

Candidates have been running on “law and order” platforms for decades in American politics. But now there’s a new wave of criminal justice reform candidates pledging to decriminalize or legalize marijuana (we know that marijuana arrests disproportionately target low-income people of color), hold police officers accountable for how they use deadly force, and seek alternatives to incarceration for low-level offenders. 

For these and other reforms, change begins with getting the right prosecutors (i.e., district attorneys or “DAs” at the city or county level) elected. These are the folks who determine the majority of prison sentences, deciding what to charge people with and who gets charged in the first place. And yet, the majority of DAs —who are overwhelmingly white and male—run unopposed. Today’s edition is all about dismantling mass incarceration one DA race at a time.

Read More →

Honoring Labor on Labor Day

Photo: Milwaukee Labor Walk 2008, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WI_Milwaukee_Labor_Walk_06.21.2008_(2603916475).jpg

This upcoming Monday is Labor Day in the US! This holiday is more than an unofficial end to summer. Let’s see what we can do to support the labor movement and working Americans.

Read More →