Day of Action at the ADL – Media Roundup
15 Cities, 20 Chapters, hundreds on the streets from Las Vegas to Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC, Seattle, Boston and more tell the Anti-Defamation League to stop US/Israel Police Exchanges.
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BREAKING: Hundreds of JVP activists across U.S. demonstrating against ADL’s role in U.S.-Israel Deadly Exchange programs
“We want to end Israel’s human rights abuses, not hold them up as a model.”
Continue ReadingHow can thinking about abolition help us imagine the world to come?
We pose the question: what can Jewish tradition and resources offer to the project of abolition of the prison industrial complex? The notion of abolition implies and demands ending our current system of criminalization and punishment, while producing a new …
Continue ReadingWhat Does it Mean to Keep our Kehillah Safe during the High Holidays?
By a Synagogue Board Member Jews and Jewish spaces like JCCs and synagogues are on heightened alert – triggered by the increased spate of bomb threats, cemetery desecrations and visibility of white nationalists and neo-nazi’s both on the streets and …
Continue ReadingThe history we need for the future we want
Reframing Jewish historical trauma to create a liberatory future By Wendy Elisheva Somerson On the same week that the Seattle police shot and killed Charleena Lyles, an African American pregnant mother of four after she called to report a burglary, …
Continue ReadingPlanet Refugee: Sanctuary Everywhere
by Rachel Ida Buff In their 1991 song, “I hear They Smoke the Barbecue,” David Thomas, Tony Maimone, Eric Drew Feldman and Scott Krauss of the Cleveland band Pere Ubu imagine that “a door in through the Northern pole” has …
Continue ReadingA New World is Possible: A Jewish View on Police/Prison Abolition
Sermon for Yom Kippur 5778 Rabbi Brant Rosen, Tzedek Chicago In 1902, Clarence Darrow delivered a speech to a group of inmates at the Cook County Jail. Never known for mincing his words, he made the following point: There should …
Continue ReadingBuilding Safety through Solidarity – An Interview with Dean Spade
Craig Willse and Dean Spade have been collaborating for 20 years on projects related to queer and trans anti-poverty, anti-prison, and anti-war politics. Craig is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at George Mason University, and is recently the author of …
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Ending Deadly Collusion Between U.S. and Israeli Police – In These Times
A new campaign aims to denormalize human rights abuses as Netanyahu and Trump intensify their alliance.
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Intercepted Podcast: ‘Merican Psycho
The Intercept’s Alice Speri investigates the militarization of police and how Israel is training American cops.
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