[av_video src=’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NzUUiXjgn4′ format=’16-9′ width=’16’ height=’9′] As Native people, no one knows our issues and struggles better than we do. Storytelling, an art form that is indigenous to us, can be used to shift power dynamics and substantiate ourselves as experts on the social justice issues that we fight for. In this hour-long webinar witness Native organizersContinue reading “Using Our Stories to Win: Native Organizing Alliance Webinar”
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Beyond Cellblocks Webinar: Ending Police-ICE Collaboration
This year, Alliance for a Just Society is hosting a series of webinars discussing techniques used in different parts of the country to combat racism and criminalization. Our most recent webinar focused on tactics for ending police collaboration with Immigration officials. This Friday, at 11 a.m., join us for a webinar on Native American storytelling.Continue reading “Beyond Cellblocks Webinar: Ending Police-ICE Collaboration”
New Video: Case Study of Colorado’s Consent-To-Search Policing Policy
In October 2013, the Alliance for a Just Society partnered with the Union Theological Seminary for a symposium called Cell Blocks and Border Stops: Transformational Activism in the Age of Dehumanization. Since then, the Alliance has been working closely with our affiliate organizations to advance policies that deconstruct systemic structures of criminalization in their localContinue reading “New Video: Case Study of Colorado’s Consent-To-Search Policing Policy”
Poor, in Prison – and Pregnant
As poverty levels in the U.S. increase, safety nets are slashed, and families are left with few options for survival. As a result, more people are forced into difficult economic decisions, including alternative street-based economies and crime from sheer economic desperation. Many of these people are women and mothers. Among women who are fortunate enoughContinue reading “Poor, in Prison – and Pregnant”
“We Say They Can Stay,” Native American Leaders Protest Immigrant Detension
By Simmi Bagri Alliance for a Just Society The annual Alliance for A Just Society’s Advanced Native Organizers Training, was sponsored by the Praxis Project and hosted at the Alliance’s office in Seattle this month, drew leaders from tribes and organizations from around the country. They came from as far as Virginia, Alaska, South Dakota,Continue reading ““We Say They Can Stay,” Native American Leaders Protest Immigrant Detension”
The Penalty for Being Poor – Prison
By Simmi Bagri Alliance for a Just Society Imagine being poor. Then imagine that the depth of your poverty is compounded because you committed a minor infraction. You can’t pay your ticket. You go to court and are put under a probation monitoring service – more fees and fines. You can’t afford bus fare, soContinue reading “The Penalty for Being Poor – Prison”
Beyond Cellblocks: Reducing Criminalization, Promoting Health Care Access & Racial Justice
This is the first in a series of webinars on ending criminalization of everyday life that will be offered by the Alliance for a Just Society. The Alliance is a national research, policy and organizing network focused on social justice, including ending racial disparity and promoting health equity. Like many other cities, Seattle has longContinue reading “Beyond Cellblocks: Reducing Criminalization, Promoting Health Care Access & Racial Justice”
2014 Advanced Native Organizers Training
The Alliance for a Just Society’s Native Organizing Alliance is pleased to announce our annual Native Organizers Training this spring! Sponsored by the Communities Creating Healthy Environments Initiative, this is a four day intensive workshop on community organizing that covers building and leveraging people-power, campaign planning, community led policy change; and how to use ourContinue reading “2014 Advanced Native Organizers Training”
The Struggle is Real – Changing the Conversation in Montana
When the Montana Department of Corrections issued its 2013 Biennial Report , the department’s own numbers finally substantiated exactly what the community has known all along: Montana is disproportionately locking away Natives. One out of every five men in prison in Montana is Native American – far above the rate that Natives are represented inContinue reading “The Struggle is Real – Changing the Conversation in Montana”
Native Americans Train to Defend Mother Earth
On August 23rd, Alliance affiliate, Indian People’s Action of Montana opened camp for a 3 day Direct Action training camp. Indian People’s Action brought Moccasins On The Ground to Montana. Drawing Native Americans from across the country to defend Mother Earth they trained activists in nonviolent direct action to stop the Keystone Pipeline that the Canadian developer,Continue reading “Native Americans Train to Defend Mother Earth”