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    Essential Work

    Listen: Youth organizers discuss Black joy, West Side history and the future

    By Erisa Apantaku (South Side Weekly) and Adeshina Emmanuel | October 1, 2020

    “We are the revolution. It is in our bodies. It is in our bones. It is in our art. It is in the way that we speak.”

    Essential Work

    ‘To be a West Side organizer’

    By Destiny Harris | September 28, 2020

    “We understand,” community organizer Destiny Harris writes, “that we will never have access to the resources we need in abundance if we wait on the government.”

    Essential Work

    ‘My ancestors were freedom fighters, and they’re teaching me how to fight’

    By Kaleb Autman | September 22, 2020

    Let Us Breath organizer Kaleb Autman, 18, reflects on his awakening as a West Side activist and how he’s responding to the needs of his community.

    Commentary

    Amara Enyia: Beware ‘dialogue as spectacle’ in fight to transform Chicago police

    By Amara Enyia | September 15, 2020

    “A truth and reconciliation process may create sympathy,” writes former Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia. “But justice isn’t about sympathy and sentiment – it’s about tangible action.”

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    Appeals court condemns humiliating mass strip search of women prisoners

    By Alan Mills (Uptown People's Law Center) | September 10, 2020

    Despite the apparent potential for abuse, the federal courts have historically taken a hands-off approach to prison strip searches—but that changed last month, writes attorney Alan Mills.

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    Black Chicago has been looted for decades

    By Carlos Ballesteros | September 1, 2020

    Three weeks ago, the nation was transfixed on images of people running out of downtown stores with their hands full. But the historic plunder of Black Chicago deserves our attention, too.

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    Hundreds serving mandatory life sentences under Illinois ‘three strikes’ law

    By Jennifer Soble (Illinois Prison Project) | August 18, 2020

    “Each received what amounts to a death sentence for one horrifying but familiar reason: race,” writes attorney and advocate Jennifer Soble.

    Essential Work

    Listen: Chicago youth leaders Miracle Boyd and China Smith reflect on activism, trauma, and growth

    By Erisa Apantaku (South Side Weekly) and Adeshina Emmanuel | July 20, 2020

    Two youth organizers with GoodKids MadCity share what activism has taught them, how it has affected them, and how they want to transform Chicago.

    Essential Work

    Essential Work: Young Black activists ‘in the middle of history’ confront Covid-19 and racism

    By China Smith and Miracle Boyd | July 15, 2020

    GoodKids MadCity youth organizers China Smith and Miracle Boyd reflect on their experiences amid the pandemic and the growing movement against racial injustice, part of our ‘Essential Work’ series.

    Commentary

    Abolition: ‘They said what they said’

    By Charles Preston | July 9, 2020

    To educate ourselves, and our readers, Injustice Watch hosted a conversation with six Chicago-area abolitionists. Here’s a snapshot of what we heard.

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