As America Argues Over Juneteenth, Remember Slavery Didn’t End in 1865—It Was Reinvented For Everyone
Matt Agorist – The vote has stirred controversy because of the name of the holiday — Juneteenth National Independence Day.
TAG: prison system
Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order
John W. Whitehead – In our present carceral state, there is no difference between the treatment meted out to a law-abiding citizen and a convicted felon.
Brazil is Offering its Prisoners Ayahuasca for Rehabilitation
Heather Callaghan – A powerful way of helping people to correct their lives.
Housing Prisoners in California Now More Expensive than Sending Them to Harvard
Anna Hunt – Housing prisoners in California is now twice as expensive as it was in 2005.
Arrests for Cannabis Possession Outnumber Arrests for All Violent Crimes Combined
Vic Bishop – The arrests of non-violent cannabis users has outnumbered actual criminals.
Florida Students Take on Private Prison Industry
Ken Butigan, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times Let’s imagine it’s 2063. Florida Atlantic University’s board of trustees has established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to disentangle the school’s historical support for the for-profit prison system — including its decision a half-century earlier to award its football stadium naming rights to the GEO Group, the nation’s …
The Spiritual Awakening of Prisoners
Fred på Jorden, Contributing Writer Waking Times People are coming together to unite their loving consciousness in order to heal the electromagnetic field of the earth. Whether coming from Buddhists or native peoples or those doing transcendental meditation or people only now becoming aware of the astounding effects of their own hearts, this united effort has been …