Organizing Tools & Strategies Organizing strategies Share your story as a woman of color and trans person of color who has experienced violence from law enforcement. Please contact us for more information. Build coalitions between anti-police...
Khaki and Blue: A Killer Combination U. S. police brutality abroad An Iraqi woman in her 70s had been harnessed and ridden like a donkey by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib after being arrested without charge in July 2003. Law enforcement violence is not limited to...
Women of Color and Welfare From: Working Hard, Staying Poor, published by the Women of Color Resource Center Welfare reform reduced welfare rolls by more than half, dropping the number of welfare recipients from 4.6 million to 2.4 million by 1999. However, while many...
Women of Color & Prisons We are told that prisons will keep us safe from domestic and sexual violence, but prisons are a source of extreme violence for women of color. Consider: Since 1980 the number of women in prison has increased at nearly double the...
Sweatshops & Women of Color A sweatshop is a workplace where workers are subject to: extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions, such as health and safety hazards, and arbitrary discipline. The U.S. General...
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