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How to end CASH BAIL in SLC: Money is a weapon used against the poor
In the criminal legal system, like so many other systems in the U.S., money is weaponized to hold people hostage. If you are arrested, you
October 8, 2020
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In the criminal legal system, like so many other systems in the U.S., money is weaponized to hold people hostage. If you are arrested, you
Here are some questions I hear all the time when I speak to people about abolition: “But what about the murderers/rapists/bad guys?” “Yeah, prisons are
January, 2019, Utah. I traveled 5,000 miles to a foreign country that would be my home for the foreseeable future. I’d left France, my country
When I was first getting into prison abolition in 2016, I wrote a future manifesto for 2021 titled “WE HAVE PEACE! NO MORE POLICE!” to
Author’s Note: The heinous murders of black people in our country have named the evil of racism and how it exists under the guise of
Salt Lake City’s recent protests and perspectives from a young black student. You can call the protest violent. By the end, it was. But understand
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the
Journalist Radu Ciorniciuc set out to make his first film documentary. Four years later, he was leading an entire social project. In this year’s World
What Utah would look like without prisons. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any nation in the world, including China…. In 2016, the Brennan Center
New Plan-B play explores the perils of existing in a black body (and what happens next) There are some times when the bottom doesn’t seem
The goal: to achieve inclusiveness and sustainability at the grassroots level in our communites This August, as a board member-representative of U.S. Servas (pronounced Sir-vahs),
What began as a peaceful protest became a scene of confusion, violence and frustration at the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce building on Tuesday. “I
It’s forbidden-fruit-Genesis-level tempting to write about politics because that is where all the easy jokes are. On the other hand there isn’t much room for
Utah author Terry Tempest Williams has won the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement by a writer whose work focuses on the
In collaboration with Rose Wagner and KUER, the Utah Film Center awarded this year’s Peek Award to filmmaker Dan Habib for positively changing the public’s
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