As major anti-transgender bills loom and Congress prepares to vote on sweeping restrictions on transgender healthcare over the next two days, Representative Sarah McBride gathered with reporters outside the Capitol to denounce what she called the Republican Party’s “obsession” with transgender people. McBride was joined by Representatives Ocasio-Cortez and Johnson for the press scrum…
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Pennsylvania State Sen. Amanda Capalletti recently announced her intention to propose legislation that would allow people convicted of crimes related to resisting their own abuse to ask for shorter sentences. The legislation also enables those already serving long sentences for crimes substantially related to their experiences of violence to seek resentencing. The law is meant to offer hope…
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I ’ve been an organizer for half of my life now. What a strange thing to write. I’ve been involved with struggles to abolish the death penalty, worked to kick racists and war criminals off campuses, to fund and expand abortion access, to form unions and strike committees; I’ve slept on concrete during youth rebellions, navigated supporting criminalized survivors of gender based violence…
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The new short film Criminal highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill. We’re joined by three contributors to the film, musician Stew Stewart and bail reform advocates Krish Gundu and Alec Karakatsanis, to discuss how what Karakatsanis calls the “unconstitutional” system of cash bail leads to “millions of coerced…
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When 28-year-old Brianna Beadle finally secured an Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) in 2022, the single mother of five exhaled for the first time in years. After she’d been bouncing between a domestic violence shelter, short-term hotels, and her car, the voucher made a four-bedroom home in Pompano Beach, Florida, possible — a place where her kids could sleep, study, and heal. But now…
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