Criminalizing Humanitarian Aid
Guest post by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler. Justine is the Media Coordinator for No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, a humanitarian organization in Southern Arizona. On Friday, March 4th, four volunteers with No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid group based out of Tucson,...
Barbaric Beyond Bans: How the First Step Act’s Shackling Provision Fails to Protect Women
In his recent State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump touted the success of recent criminal justice reform legislation. Specifically, he was talking about the First Step Act, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support before Trump signed it into law....
Administrative Remedy or Litigation? Contemplating the PLRA’s Availability Exception after Townsend v. Murphy
Guest Post by Julius Mitchell For generations, the incarcerated have utilized prison strikes to protest everything from harsh sentencing to restrictive parole requirements to poor prison conditions. In August and September 2018, organizers launched one of the largest...
Baltimore after Freddie Gray
For the city of Baltimore, it’s been three long years since Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody was declared a homicide by Baltimore’s state attorney, Marilyn Mosby. After an internal investigation that included reviewing of police tape, the autopsy report,...
Justice for Whom?: The Dangers of the Growing Victims’ Rights Movement
Larry Nassar, a former doctor for the US Gymnastics team and the University of Michigan, was convicted in 2017 on multiple charges of criminal sexual conduct and child pornography. He was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison and additional time in state prison. At...
The Supreme Court just granted cert in two cases about whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ workers — and there's every reason to believe this SCOTUS will leave LGBTQ people in the cold.
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With the 1st Annual Critical Race theory Conference, we are reclaiming the student activist tradition of creating physical, political, emotional, social, and academic spaces of liberation. @HarvardBLSA @HarvardCRCL @harvardblj https://t.co/mlzRDaik7d
House Democrats just introduced a new bill to fight sexual harassment by outlawing forced arbitration for employees and and prohibiting non-disclosures which cover up sexual harassment. Details from @OnLaborBlog 👇🏽 https://t.co/i7mjJK9eNo
Great piece by @NoMoreDeaths on @HarvardCRCL "We believe that attempts to criminalize the humanitarian aid work our group and others like it perform are part of a larger, systemic movement against undocumented people in the US." #AbolishICE #ChingaLaMigra #abolishicebox https://t.co/356hbb4TOe
