Announcing the winners of the 6th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize: Harlow Scott, "Cancer in Prison: A Death Sentence?” Jazzy Mason, “For Child Abuse Survivors Like Me, Prison Reactivates Familiar Trauma” Grateful for these essays & the legacy of my beloved sister.💗 truthout.org/articles/ann...

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Big news: Truthout and YES! Media are launching an original series, “Taking Back the Public Commons.” We’re reporting on the many ways organizers are fighting to expand the horizon of what’s possible–particularly on the local and state level–even in the toughest times. truthout.org/series/takin...

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Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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I wrote about Christa Pike, and the urgency of our mandate to dismantle the prison-industrial complex and grow the world we need. Let's push ourselves to imagine and build the life-affirming vision that abolishes death penalties of all kinds. truthout.org/articles/we-...

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