As the radical activist Helen Keller once said, “alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” This Newsletter tells stories of a few Resist grantees who have come together to organize and support each other.
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In This Together
As the radical activist Helen Keller once said, “alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” As you know, RESIST supports hundreds of activist organizations throughout the US who are dedicated to organizing their communities to make this world a more peaceful and just place. But what you might not know is that every year these groups also often come together,...
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·Pelican Bay State Prison-Security Housing Unit, Short Corridor Collective, Prison Birth Project, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Civilian Soldier Alliance
April 1, 2014
The Struggle for Prisoners’ Rights: The movement for freedom for all took a huge leap forward
Editor's note: This past year marked a major shift in the movement away from mass incarceration, the drug war, and the prison industrial complex and towards prisoners’ rights. This shift happened mainly because of a hunger strike that spread across California(and then across the country) by prisoners to protest the conditions of their imprisonment. We have not seen such a movement spread so quickly...well, maybe...
The Fight for Justice in Palestine: TIAA-CREF divests social choice fund from controversial Veolia Corporation
The We Divest coalition joins workers, environmentalists, and corporate accountability organizations in congratulating pension fund giant TIAA-CREF for removing Veolia Environnement SA stock (VIE:EN Paris) from its Social Choice Funds portfolio. In July 2013, TIAA-CREF’s website showed over $1.2 million in Veolia shares for its Social Choice Funds. Today it shows zero. TIAA-CREF still holds Veolia stock in its regular accounts. “Some of us in...