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The Other Central
Valley
Sacramento
Security Housing Unit
Everyday Life
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Everyday
Life
Anti-Gang Tactics
Often created in part by community initiatives, anti-gang
tactics have criminalized an array of everyday gestures among
groups of young people of color. Civil injunctions against “suspected
gang members” in San Jose, for example, prohibit in part:
“standing, sitting, walking, driving, gathering, or appearing
anywhere in public view” with a “suspected gang member,”
and from “approaching vehicles, engaging in conversation
or otherwise communicating with the occupants of any vehicle,
and making, causing, or encouraging others to make loud noise
of any kind.”
One mother recently said that “these injunctions
were intended to make drugs and violence disappear from our streets,
but they’ve only caused the disappearance of young men.”
Jim Crow
Black Codes criminalized behavior such as “vagrancy, breech
of job contracts, absence from work, the possession of firearms,
and insulting gestures or acts.”
The Mississippi Black codes defined a vagrant
as “anyone who was guilty of theft, had run away, was drunk,
was wanton in conduct or speech, had neglected job or family,
handled money carelessly, and all other idle and disorderly persons.”
On Parole
Women and men with drug-related convictions are often ineligible
for cash assistance or food stamps, denied financial aid for education,
and excluded from public housing. In California, over half of
all parolees end up homeless, and two-thirds of parolees are put
back in prison within three years.
All of Us or None
Conceived as a civil-rights movement of- and for ex-prisoners,
All of Us or None is mobilizing former prisoners to establish
human rights for prisoners and former prisoners, to protect the
rights of families when a loved one is imprisoned, to create models
for sustainable community development, to organize former prisoners
to demand political power, and to exert pressure on state legislatures
to end discrimination against former prisoners and their communities.
There are currently over 12 million ex-prisoners in the United
States.
link to All of Us or None
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