Alisa Bierria is the Associate Director of the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley and a member of Survived & Punished and the Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign. She is also co-editor of Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order.
Mariame Kaba is the founder of Project NIA, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration and a member of Survived & Punished and the #FreeBresha Campaign. Her work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, and supporting youth leadership development.
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Yes, Trump Is President. We Can’t Compromise in the Fight Against Criminalization.
We can't leave survivor-defendants, like Bresha Meadows and others, behind.
Alisa Bierria & Mariame Kaba, #SurvivedAndPunished
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.