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January 3rd Memorial for Alteriq Pleasant
Alteriq would be celebrating his 30th birthday this day, but he died in the custody of Cook County Jail after experiencing a medical emergency. Alteriq should still be here along with so many more. Learn more from an interview with his mother, Vicki Willis, here.
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“A Compromise from the Start”
An interview with a Chicago Police district council member Every time we go out to talk to people on the streets about their experiences with the Chicago Police Department, Dare to Struggle hears stories about the routine harassment and abuse that young Black and Latino people in Chicago suffer at the hands of these pigs.…
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Cracks at Hotel California: Incarcerated for Over a Decade without Being Found Guilty
Fredrick, a Cook County Jail inmate for 13 years, discusses the conditions of the jail, the violation of rights of inmates, and how the system is stacked against them. Shortly after this interview, Fred was found guilty on the charges of attempted murder My name Fredrick. I’ve been locked up 13 years now. 12 of…
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Cracks at Hotel California: An Interview with a Recently Released Inmate
Antwand, a recently released inmate, discusses how collective punishment is weaponized in Cook County Jail If there’s a fight on the deck and they apprehend the two people on the deck, they still punish th entire deck. They’ll put the entire deck on lockdown because of a fight. They will remove the two people fighting…
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Oppression in the Streets: How New Britain’s shelters treat the Homeless
Issue #2 Nov 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative “Deal with it… do as you’re told…or get the fuck out” Many homeless and formerly homeless people we’ve talked to for the past…
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Oppression in the Streets: How NBPD Treats the Homeless
Issue #1 Nov 2024 Stories from people who are and have been homeless in New Britain and around Connecticut. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle CT. Distributed by Homeless Liberation Initiative One Homeless Man in New Britain Faced: $99 Tickets for “Sleeping on Public Bench” Almost all of the homeless people we’ve talked to…
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An Interview with the Mother of a 22-Year Old Inmate of Cook County Jail
Lucy, a mother of a 22-year-old inmate in Chicago’s Cook County Jail, discusses the conditions there, her son’s fight to get out, and the system he is up against My son was arrested June 2023 on an attempted murder. They arrested him and put him in general population, and that’s where the harassment began. The inmates…
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WORD ON THE STREET: “At the end of the race, we’re in the same place”
Spoken by the people on Skid Row. Edited and published by Dare to Struggle. Distributed by Skid Row Stands Up. Issue #1, November 2024 Dare to Struggle showed a man on Skid Row our flyer and asked him what he thought. SKID ROW STANDS UP – POINTS OF UNITY 2 We can’t look to the…
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Cracks at Hotel California: Exposing the Realities of Cook County Jail
Issue #1 Nov-Dec 2024 A modified interview with Vickki Willis (Alteriq Pleasant Foundation) mother of Alteriq Pleasant, who died in Chicago Police custody at Cook County Jail. The last time I spoke with my son was July 19, 2022, and he called to tell me he got arrested. Somebody was trying to hurt him and…
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