27 Years of Crime Bill Politics

by Tracey Corder, Campaign Director — Policing & Incarceration

“We have predators on our streets. That society has in fact, in part because of its neglect, created. Again it does not mean because we created them that we somehow forgive them or do not take them out of society to protect my family and yours from them. They are beyond the pale many of these people.”

These are not the words of the leader of a police union or a self-proclaimed right wing politician, they are the words of President Joseph R. Biden spoken as part of the justification for passing the Violent Crime Control and Law…

Guilty Verdicts Are Not Justice

By Tracey Corder, Alyxandra Goodwin and Jasson Perez

Today we affirm past statements that guilty verdicts do not equal justice. Convictions don’t save lives and they are not our end goal. We envision a world where we can live in safety and abundance without being surveilled, incarcerated or imprisoned.

In…

President Biden Must Appoint a New Fed Chair Who Is Serious About Racial Equity

by Brittany Alston, Saqib Bhatti, and Vasudha Desikan

We all know that the COVID-19 pandemic is not just a public health emergency but also an economic catastrophe that has had disastrous impacts on Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities. While U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth increase by…

Progressives to Treasury: Keep our COVID aid away from Wall Street & Police!

#CommunityRecoveryFirst means Treasury stops cities from giving our COVID aid to Wall Street & police.

President Biden and Secretary Yellen:

The past year has shown us what happens when you layer a public health crisis on top of racial inequity. COVID-19 had a disproportionate effect on Black and Brown neighborhoods that had already been suffering from decades of targeted disinvestment. …

An Abolitionist Response to White Supremacy

By Tracey Corder and Ramah Kudaimi

Below is an excerpt from “After the Insurrection | An Abolitionist Response to White Supremacy” published February 28th in The organizing publication The Forge.

In the weeks since the white supremacist attack against the Capitol, many elected officials and policymakers have declared that we…

We Are the Data: the Case for Democratic Ownership of Tech

by Alyxandra Goodwin, Jessica Quiason, and Tracey Corder

With each new crisis we face, we see more and more how Big Tech’s influence endangers our communities. From spreading misinformation around the COVID-19 epidemic, to amplifying white supremacy online in the lead up to the Capitol insurrection earlier in January, while…

Will Biden Back Black Voters Or Wall Street?

2/26/20 Joe Biden poses with a campaign supporter at an event. — Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden meets with attendees during a campaign event, Feb. 26, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. Photo: Matt Rourke/AP

By Morgan Harper — American Economic Liberties Project and Tia Oso — Action Center on Race and the Economy

During his victory speech last November, incoming President Joe Biden told Black voters, “ You’ve always had my back, and I’ll have yours.” But as the first full week of the…

Biden repealed the Muslim Ban. That’s nowhere near enough.

By Ramah Kudaimi, Deputy Campaign Director - Crescendo

A woman in a headwrap and woman wearing hijab hold protest signs reading slogals from the Repeal the Ban rally. — Protest image from NoMuslimBanEver.com

Once it became apparent that Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential election, many communities breathed a collective sigh of relief. For Muslim Americans in particular, it was momentous. …

Stop Calling It Terrorism

The white supremacist attack on the Capitol on January 6 has shed light on many familiar problems around how such violence is covered by the media and reacted to by policy makers and even our own communities.

Discussions have taken place about how to talk about this attack, the use of the terrorism framework and what that means in prolonging the almost 20 year old Global War on Terror, and why even when an act of violence is clearly rooted in U.S. right-wing, white supremacist movements, some still rely on anti-Muslim metaphors to describe and respond to it.

By Nahid Soltanzadeh, MPower Change, Ramah Kudaimi, ACRE, and Munira Lokhandwala, LittleSis

Stop Calling It Terrorism

Plenty has been written- see links at the end- about why we must resist the urge to label this episode of white supremacist violence “terrorism” and that our goal should be to end the…

The Fascist Four: Taking on the Corporations that Enabled the Capitol Riots

By Tia Oso — Director of Communications, ACRE

Image Description: Graphic depicting a map in the shape of the contiguous 48 states of the United States, superimposed with the logos of Amazon, Google, Blackstone and Fidelity and an image of a KKK member with the letters MAGA emblazoned on their chest in red.

We all watched in horror last week as a group of armed insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol and attempted a coup in support of Donald Trump. As the story unfolds, it is becoming clear that many in the mob were prepared…

The white supremacist attack on the Capitol on January 6 has shed light on many familiar problems around how such violence is covered by the media and reacted to by policy makers and even our own communities.

ACRE: Action Center on Race and the Economy