Articles
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Photo by Liz Sanchez This Land is Your Land
Racial capitalism is built on stolen land and exclusion from home ownership — resulting in enormous racial wealth gaps and housing insecurity. A Homes Guarantee would create housing security for all.
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Photo by Clay Banks Work, work, work, work, work, work
A strong labor movement can help dismantle racial capitalism. Here’s how.
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This time-based illustration demonstrates the sonification of unemployment data for each state. Artwork by Nettrice Gaskins The Rise & Fall of Racial Capitalism
This special issue of The Forge explores the history of racial capitalism and why we must dismantle it to build a liberation economy.
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Photo by Wesley Tingey Hammons Monetary Sanctions, Racialized Wealth Extraction, and Momentum for Fines and Fees Reform
Cities and states are filling budget gaps by increasing monetary sanctions that systematically extract wealth from Black communities. Fines and fees reform is an important step toward dismantling systemic racism, mass criminalization, and economic inequality.
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Photo by Pawel Czerwinski “Building up the house for the next generation”
Greisa Martinez Rosas from United We Dream on her fight for dignity, respect, and equality for undocumented immigrants.
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Photo by Ramez Nassif Sex Work is Work
And criminalization is unsafe for Black and brown people.
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Photo by Larry Farr “It’s a crime to be poor”
Organizers from the Dream Defenders on why we must defund the police and abolish prisons if we want to dismantle racial capitalism.
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Photo by Jen Theodore One-Two Punch: How the Green New Deal Fights Ecofascism and Racialized Capitalism
The Green New Deal will succeed where the mainstream climate movement has failed. Here’s why.
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“It’s rare to find somebody who’s really dug in”
Emily Gallagher and her campaign manager, Andrew Epstein, talk about their NYS Assembly race and how they’ve pivoted during COVID.
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“We have to tax the rich”
Assembly candidate and tenants' rights attorney Adam Bojak on his fight against austerity politics, how COVID is reshaping his campaign, what he’s doing to prepare for an “avalanche of evictions.”
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Photo by Greta Scholderle Moller A Path to Reparations for the War on Drugs
Any plan to decriminalize cannabis must put power in the hands of Black and brown communities.
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Photo by Evangeline Shaw Remaking Our Economy with Restorative Investing
Why philanthropists must invest in Black and brown communities to lead the fight for liberation.
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Photo by Maarten Van Den Heuvel Looking for the Symbol of Racial Capitalism? Look No Further Than Amazon
Amazon embodies racial capitalism. That’s why we must organize against it.
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“We need people that are listening”
Fatima Iqbal-Zubair and her campaign managers talk about their California State Assembly race, the campaign’s turn to mutual aid work during COVID, and how they’re building a sustainable grassroots movement
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Photo by Emiliano Bar Lessons for Ending Mass Incarceration Beyond the Pandemic
COVID-19 offers us an opportunity to target the root causes of mass incarceration. But we’ll need political courage to convince lawmakers to divest from the correctional system.
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“Be as big as the moment”
James Burch of the Anti Police-Terror Project talks about organizing during the uprisings and the “need to be bold and principled” in this moment
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“Cops don’t keep us safe”
Cat Brooks from the Anti Police-Terror Project talks about organizing during the uprisings, what needs to be done to defund the police, and her vision for a national defund movement.
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“Electing socialist politicians expands what is possible by leaps and bounds”
Jabari Brisport and Fainan Lakha talk about their campaign, the DSA’s electoral strategy, and why we need socialists in office.
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Planting the Seeds of Abolition
Organizers from the Minneapolis abolitionist collective MPD150 talk about changing the narrative to create the world we want to see.
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“This is all about bringing about justice”
Phara Soufrrant Forrest talks about how her campaign strategies have shifted during a tumultuous spring — and how she’s using her campaign to build a more just New York.