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Justice & Human Rights

Justice and human rights

Our team is learning about what impact looks like for justice, human rights, and the criminal justice system.

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Labor Rights

Human Rights & Hockey: Why Are This Year’s Olympics Being Called the ‘Genocide Olympics’?

Why Doesn’t Amazon Have Unions? Insider Labor Organizing at One of America’s Largest Companies

What’s It Like to Work At Amazon? Impactfull December 2021

Where do Your Flowers Come From? The Thorns of the Colombian Cut Flower Industry

Child Labor in Chocolate: Ayn Riggs of Slave Free Chocolate

1.56 Million Children & A Supreme Court Case: Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry

Bitter Chocolate: What’s Going on in the Cocoa Industry?

What is the Truth about Modern Slavery? Reflections from Emily Kenway’s 2021 Book

Fast Fashion: Exploitation at Fabletics and the Human Rights of Garment Workers

The 2021 Chocolate Scorecard is Here. How Did Your Favorite Cocoa Company Do?

New Federal Case Alleges that Nestle, Hershey’s, Mars and other Chocolate Companies Use Forced Child Labor

This Valentine’s Day, Say ‘I Love You’ with Slavery-Free Chocolate

For People and Planet: How Slavery and Ecocide are Linked

Can a 230-year-old Law be Used to Convict Nestle? The Supreme Court Considers Child Slavery on Cocoa Plantations

Does Your University Support the Prison Industrial Complex?

Civil Rights

Criminal Justice + Policing

A Different Perspective on Police Accountability: How Law Enforcement Fails Domestic Violence Survivors

A Need for Systemic Solutions Beyond Decriminalization of Marijuana

Why American Prisons Should Emphasize Rehabilitation

The Outsized Role of Private Prisons in the Mass Incarceration System

How is Transformative Justice Different from Restorative Justice?

Shifting Crowd Control Tactics in Modern Policing

Expungement and Sealing: What Are They and Why Should States Expand These Forms of Record Relief?

How a Loaf of Bread Led To My Understanding of the Prison System

Police Brutality as a Global Issue: What is Happening in Nigeria?

Community Buy-in, Peace Corps, and Legal Advocacy with Stephanie Turrentine

2020 Federal Execution: What It Means for Race and Capital Punishment

Inside the Systems that Fuel the School-to-Prison Pipeline

What You Need to Know about Nashville’s People’s Plaza

Law Enforcement Brutality as a Human Rights Violation

The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Eliminating the Pipeline

Organizing in the University Context: How to Get Your University to Divest from the Prison-Industrial Complex

The School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Justice System

The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Status Offenses

Does Your University Support the Prison Industrial Complex?

Why Defunding the Police is Necessary

What is Juneteenth?

Why is Everyone Asking Me to Donate to Bail Funds?

George Floyd: A Call to Action During COVID-19

Three Things I Learned From “Not a Crime to Be Poor” and Edelman’s Broader Solution to Justice

Why We Need to Support Community Bail Funds Now More Than Ever

Considering Person-Centered Language: What I’ve Learned from the Nashville Prison Reform Community and Beyond

The Effect of COVID-19 on Our Nation’s Prisons and Jails, and What You Can Do to Help

Human Rights

Human Trafficking + Modern Slavery


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  • Take Action with the Sentencing Project
  • Download the slave-free buying guide and Check Out these other ways to shop slave-free
  • Donate to the Bail Project
  • Endorse the Housing Not Handcuffs campaign
  • Donate Goods or find another way to support refugees on this page
  • Volunteer with a local anti-trafficking organization

Books

  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein | Book |
  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin | Book |
  • Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America by Sterling Stuckey | Book |
  • Drylongso: A Self-portrait of Black America by John Gwaltney | Book |
  • Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South by Michael Gomez | Book |
  • Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi | Book |
  • Democracy in Black by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. | Book |
  • Not a Crime to Be Poor by Peter Edelman | Book | Emma’s Review |
  • The Locust Effect by Gary Haugen and Victor Boutros | Book | Alexa’s Review |
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander | Book |
  • Queer Criminology by Carrie Buist and Emily Lenning | Book |

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