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Family members, activists, and others hold a rally outside of city hall to demand that the administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams do more to address the crisis
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Human Rights Groups Urge UN to Call for Abolition of “Death by Incarceration”

September 27, 2022 fwstaff
By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout Several human rights organizations submitted a 31-page complaint to United Nations experts today, alleging that the United States is committing torture and violating the prohibition against racial discrimination by condemning people […]
Christopher Vialva and his mother Lisa Brown just days before his execution in Indiana
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Racism and the Death Penalty

October 11, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Christopher Vialva, 40, was executed by the United States government on September 24, 2020 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Vialva was the first Black person put to death by the federal criminal justice […]
Detroit SEIU worker protests outside nursing home
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Seniors, Prisoners and the Plight of the Detroit Majority

May 2, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Statistical indicators from the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan reveal that the rate of infections and deaths resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are on the decline. During the early […]
Justice for DuJuan Armstrong
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Prisoners strike at Santa Rita jail

November 2, 2019 fwstaff
By Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee – Oakland (Press release) Prisoners inside Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, CA are staging a one day hunger strike and work stoppage to protest widespread institutional neglect and abuse, including […]
Detroit Moratorium NOW! Coalition demonstration at Prudential in Farmington Hills MI
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“No Detention Centers in Michigan” Demonstration Held by Moratorium NOW! Coalition

October 11, 2019 fwstaff
By Detroit FW Staff Moratorium NOW! Coalition and the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) held a noon-time demonstration in Farmington Hills, Michigan, a suburb right outside Detroit at the Prudential Financial office […]