The Federal Government Resumes Executions
When I wrote my essay on prison abolition, I began by explaining the historical relationship between prisons and slavery. It was imperative for me to…
Summer Is Deadly for Incarcerated People in America
Last winter, I wrote about the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn torturing its incarcerated citizens by denying them access to heat, power, winter clothes, and…
DOJ Refuses to Bring Charges Against Eric Garner’s Killer
I don’t know how many times I’ve written about Eric Garner since he was murdered almost exactly five years ago. On July 17, 2014, Eric…
The Mauna Kea Protector-Friendly Playlist
Kū Haʻaheo E Kuʻu Hawaiʻi by Kumu Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu Hawaiʻi ’78 by Mana Maoli We are (Mauna Kea) by Sudden Rush Kaulana Nā Pua by…
ʻAʻole TMT A Me Kū Kiaʻi Mauna
Kānaka ʻoiwi have seen our culture and history trampled, stolen, rewritten, and colonized since the first haole imperialists landed on our ʻāina. Just as the…
What to the Slave/Native/Immigrant is Your Fourth of …
I do not and will never celebrate America’s fourth of July. The country that enslaved millions of Black people and traded slavery for prisons after…
On the Concentration Camps at the Border
Countless firsthand accounts of CBP and ICE’s cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants have surfaced ever since the Tr*mp administration established (by White House senior…