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…

By Bree Carlson and Saqib Bhatti, ACRE Co-Executive Directors Today, we will be bombarded with social media posts, advertisements, and other pronouncements from corporations wishing us a happy Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a celebration of Black freedom in the United States. Juneteenth celebrations date back to 1866, but was only recognized…

by Saqib Bhatti, Co-Executive Director — ACRE Republicans weaponize the debt ceiling every time there’s a Democrat in the White House, and Democrats fall for it every single time. Now, it’s happening again. Democrats must eliminate the debt ceiling once and for all, while they still have time. The debt…

by Ramah Kudaimi, Crescendo Campaign Director “As YouTube has become bigger and has had more of an impact, we’ve seen a need to increase what we’re doing from a responsibility standpoint,” CEO Susan Wokcicki said last April as she received an award from the Freedom Forum Institute. She said this…

by Samantha Kattan — Senior Research Analyst, and Sofia Lopez — Deputy Campaign Director, Housing — Last week, Wall Street’s role in our housing crisis was in the spotlight. Here’s why it matters and where we go from here! Across the country tenants share similar struggles against their landlords, but housing is still considered a local issue, receiving way too little attention at the national level…

Friends, colleagues, comrades, and allies - I am SO, so proud of what I’ve helped build at ACRE. Saqib and I started building this organization 6 years ago and this year marks 5 years since our official launch. What a ride it has been! We’ve gone from being a fiscally…

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…

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. …

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…