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Decriminalization makes it safer for sex workers
The United States is a prison empire, founded on the legacy of slavery, which uses racist mass incarceration, widespread criminalization, torture and the targeting of political dissidents to try to solve its fundamental economic and social problems. It locks up more people than any other country on the planet. The prison system is a central node in an apparatus of state repression; it destroys our communities and weakens our resistance and movements for justice. Repression is a tool used to maintain state power, and the prison population represents the most oppressed sectors of society: people of color, the poor, First Nations communities, immigrant communities, working class women,...
Principles defining the relationship between progressive technologists and our movement.
We urge the participants in the USSF and the social movements from which they come, to support the work to see, name and claim our commons as vital to the future of our communities and our goals of equity, stewardship and survival.
We are working in solidarity to draft a National Student Bill of Rights for All Youth (NSBR) that will become a unifying document for youth nation-wide and a driving force for youth movement building!
Today, we call on our US Social Movements unite with clarity that the root causes of joblessness and the housing crisis in our cities; the toxic contamination of our air, water, soil and climate, and ecosystems; and the displacement and criminalization of our communities are the same. These root causes—capitalism, imperialism, and the systems of oppression that uphold them-- are the same root causes that put the earth’s ability to sustain human life in peril. We are forging a new movement of movements in which grassroots groups in frontline communities provide key leadership for a just resolve to our global crisis, working in concert with environmentalists, policy advocates,...
Jobs & Labor Rights Summary
The Peoples’ Movement Assembly “Plant Occupations and other Strategies for Organizing and Defending Workers’ Rights”
USSF 2010
Detroit
a.) The U.S. working class faces a crisis of employment and a crisis of labor rights.
b.) The real rate of unemployment is 20% or more (nearly 50% in our host city of Detroit). Unemployment is even worse for young workers, and many layoffs are permanent, with employers leaving the country or going out of business.
c.) The right to organize and bargain is denied outright to major categories of workers - agricultural workers, domestic workers, public employees in states that have...
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