We hope this special issue creates a foundation for more strategic thinking and greater collaboration on how we can fight racial capitalism and build the world we want to see. 

Organizers from the Dream Defenders on why we must defund the police and abolish prisons if we want to dismantle racial capitalism. 

And criminalization is unsafe for Black and brown people.

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.

Greisa Martinez Rosas from United We Dream on her fight for dignity, respect, and equality for undocumented immigrants.

A strong labor movement can help dismantle racial capitalism. Here’s how.

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.

Money making money is a third pillar of racial capitalism. In this audio article, we talk about the racialized financial systems that have given us “socialism for the rich and rugged capitalism for the poor."

Amazon embodies racial capitalism. That’s why we must organize against it. 

Why philanthropists must invest in Black and brown communities to lead the fight for liberation.

Any plan to decriminalize cannabis must put power in the hands of Black and brown communities.

The Green New Deal will succeed where the mainstream climate movement has failed. Here’s why.

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.