1,000 More Buses, 1,000 Less Police!

Larry Aubry & Hamid Khan: What to expect and demand from the new chief at LAPD

The Los Angeles Sentinel columnist and the director of South Asian Network reflect on the appointment of Charlie Beck to replace William Bratton as chief of LAPD. What should communities of color and civil rights activists expect and demand from the new leadership at LAPD?

Voices From the Students: Testimonies on daytime curfew "truancy tickets"

By Lisa Adler

Voices From the Students provides direct testimony from students who have receieved "truancy tickets." The testimonies document the consequences of these tickets and the experiences while receiving them from police officers.

Colorlines on CRC: Young, Brown—And Charged With Truancy

By Lisa Adler

The Community Rights Campaign is a feature in the new issue of Colorlines. Specifically, the article features our campaign on the Los Angeles Unified School District to place a moratorium on giving tickets for tardiness and truancies as one important way to challenge the "pre-prison" conditions in LAUSD.

Urge Attorney General Jerry Brown NOT to Appeal Federal Court's Order on Prison Overcrowding

Date from/to:

Aug 27 2009 - 10:00am - Aug 27 2009 - 11:00am

Contact Information:

lisa@thestrategycenter.org
(213) 387-2800

Statewide Alliance urges Jerry Brown NOT to Appeal Court Order to reduce Prison Population

ACT NOW: Urge the Governor to implement court's order on prison overcrowding - deadline Sept 18th!

Date Announced:

Sep 1 2009

Is it now a crime to be poor? The criminalization of everyday life

By Manuel Criollo

Barbara Ehrenreich's op-ed, Is it now a crime to be poor?, published on August 9th in the New York Times is an important contribution, written for the readers of the New York Times, about the criminalization of poverty in the U.S.

Will state resist court order to release 44,000 prisoners?

By Lisa Adler

On August 4th, a panel of 3 federal judges ordered California to reduce the prison population by 44,000 prisoners in the next two years to address the inhumane conditions caused by prison overcrowding! As the LA Times reported: "The 185-page opinion...accused the state of fostering "criminogenic" conditions, compelling former prisoners to commit more crimes and feed a cycle of recidivism."

La Opinion investigates Truancy Tickets

By Lisa Adler

The most read Spanish language newspaper in LA covered our testimonies at the LAUSD Board on truancy tickets. The reporter interviewed our organizers and members, but he also further investigated the issue by interviewing other high school students and parents as well as school police.