Formerly incarcerated people are not the only ones who have a slate that needs to be wiped clean. Our lawmakers must undo the evils of mass incarceration they wrote into law.
LISTEN: Defund the police & abolish ICE
Neph and Rosette are joined by returning guest Michael Okinczyz-Cruz and special guest Dwayne David Paul to discuss how Catholic Social Teaching speaks to the concepts of Defunding the Police and Abolishing ICE.
WATCH: Dwayne David Paul and Michael Vazquez offer advice to Biden for combating racial inequity, LGBTQ discrimination
In this livestream, NCR's Olga Segura hosts a conversation with Dwayne David Paul of the Collaborative Center for Justice, and Michael Vazquez of the Human Rights Campaign, about the advice they'd offer to President Joe Biden.
So-called community policing perpetuates a throwaway culture
There is no humane way to dispose of people; there is only anodyne language that hides the violence of the process.
Prisons and law enforcement are not the solution to our social problems
America's catastrophic responses to the coronavirus pandemic and to racial justice protests have made plain for many the effects of a 40-year project that began in the early 1980s.
Reforms don’t work. The police must be defunded.
People of faith must examine the moral legitimacy of policing itself. There has never been a time when it has not crushed the weak and promoted the interests of the powerful.