“We don't want Black August to become like a new Black History Month, where [it’s] just about celebrations or parties. That's not the spirit of it. It's in resistance and how we can prepare ourselves to resist our own oppression.”| The Real News Network
“This is now such an obvious example of the war at home and how skewed our priorities are. We need the money we're spending on militarizing our streets to be used to help the poor in DC.”| The Real News Network
“The state of mind of DC citizens right now is that they're under a police state, mainly in the poor Black and Brown communities... their mandate is to harass the citizens of the District of Columbia.”| The Real News Network
“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in prison.”| The Real News Network
