The Real Price of Prisons: The Michigan Independent has been at the forefront in bringing you news about local organizing efforts against the prison industrial complex. Please bring your attention to the latest issue of Mother Jones, which contains a series of articles about how America’s prison system is wreaking havoc within our nation’s economy.
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by Andy Stefan
On the evening of June 19, over two-hundred residents of Washtenaw County filed into the First Congregational Church of Christ in Ypsilanti for a community meeting about recent federal raids on the local immigrant community. The event, organized by the Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR), was billed as a public discussion […]