Intersections + Injustice
My Experience of Brutal Arrest at a Black Lives Matter Protest
It happened almost by accident. I was walking past Union Square after dinner with ...
Silicon Valley Prosecutor’s Dog-Whistle Threat to Muslim Public Defender
Sajid A. Khan is a community leader and public defender in Santa Clara ...
Abolitionist Scientists Challenge Crime Prediction Software Research
One thousand scientists have denounced new software designed to predict criminality based off of ...
Comprehensive Sexuality Education Is Harm Reduction
Harm reduction and sexual health have been linked since harm reduction’s birth as a ...
New York Evictions Are Back, and So Are Demands to #CancelRent
In New York state, evictions through housing court resumed on June 22 after months ...
Thank Earlier LGBTQ+ Activists for the Marijuana Wins We Enjoy Today
This month, as we celebrate Pride, it’s important to remember our roots. These include ...
Don’t “Defund” the War on Drugs—Cut It Off
It took the caught-on-camera murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin—and ...
“A Million Experiments”—Leading Abolitionists Outline Roadmap to #DefundPolice
Amid an unprecedented mainstream debate over disarming and disbanding police, leading abolitionists published a ...
The Pandemic Accelerates the Rise—and Criminalization—of Tent Cities
Just before we went into lockdown, I visited Sanctuary, a homelessness organization in Toronto, ...
“There Is No Naloxone for Racism”—Kassandra Frederique Speaks Out
Since George Floyd was horrifically murdered by Minneapolis cops on May 25, events have ...
