Poor People, People Of Color - Especially

Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges.

I’m A Feminist So I Believe In Inhabiting Contradictions. I Believe In Making Contradictions Productive, Not In Having To Choose One Side Or The Other Side. As Opposed To Choosing Either Or, Choosing Both.

I Think That The Response To The Oj Simpson Trial Was Based On A Kind Of Sensibility That Emerged Out Of The Many Campaigns To Defend Black Communities Against Police Violence.

Because It Would Be Too Agonizing To Cope With The Possibility That Anyone, Including Our­ Selves, Could Become A Prisoner, We Tend To Think Of The Prison As Disconnected From Our Own Lives. This Is Even True For Some Of Us, Women As Well As Men, Who Have Already Experienced Imprisonment.

The De Industrialization Of The Us. Economy Based On The Migration Of Corporations Into Third World Areas Where Labor Is Very Cheap And Thus More Profitable For These Companies Creates On The One Hand Conditions In Those Countries That Encourage People To Emigrate To The Us. In Search Of A Better Life. On The Other Hand, It Creates Conditions Here That Send More Black People Into The Alternative Economies, The Drug Economies, Women Into Economies In Sexual Services, And Sends Them Into The Prison Industrial Complex.