human rights
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“I EXPOSED MY SERIAL RAPIST AND GOT CHARGED WITH A FELONY BECAUSE OF IT”
Survivors are too often criminalized and ostracized for speaking out against rape and abuse. Kam is facing 18 months in jail for exposing a serial rapist who has been terrorizing Union County, NJ for years. Meanwhile the real criminal is walking free. Read more…
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DHS PIGS KILL A BLIND IMMIGRANT FATHER
In Buffalo on February 15th, 2025, Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind father of five and refugee of the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, was walking with a curtain rod as a make-shift cane. Shah Alam accidentally walked onto a homeowner’s private property, and the…
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Notes on O22 from Inside CCJ
A letter from participants of the October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality inside Cook County Jail When we dare to struggle, we dare to win, and we either STAND for something of FALL for anything. To all the men and women…
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Get Organized for October 22nd!
O22 National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality Since 2020, over 7,000 people across the United States have been killed by police, and every year is more deadly than the last. The mass rebellion in response to the public execution of George Floyd,…
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Cracks at Hotel California Issue #7 – Black August
Commemorate Black August 2025 at Cook County Jail! Black August (BA) is a commemorative month which recognizes the sacrifices and struggles of Black people in the ongoing fight for freedom and real liberation from the American nightmare. It’s a month-long observance for reflection, study,…
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Pride is Dead. Long Live Stonewall!
On June 18th, the US Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold an anti-trans law in Tennessee that bans the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors. Trans kids face dire threats from Republicans seeking to legislate them out of existenceA widespread…
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A Letter to the Outside
Inmates write about conditions at CCJ The following is a letter sent to Dare to Struggle – Chicago from a group of inmates inside Cook County Jail’s Division 11. Inmates have requested the letter be published in full to further expose conditions inside the…
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DCFS: Department of Child Abuse and Family Separation
Children abandoned in dingy juvenile cells amidst a mental health crisis, left to rot in fluorescent-lit cubicle offices overnight with strangers, dumped in emergency rooms and deprieved of access to adequate medical care, and cuffed in full-body shackles as they are displaced from one…
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Cracks at Hotel California: What happened to Attica?
A call to action from Dare to Struggle – Chicago For more than 6 months now, Dare to Struggle – Chicago has been going out to Cook County Jail, talking with inmates and their loved ones about the horrors behind its walls. The conditions…
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“This is WAR.”
New York Inmates Who Exposed Messiah Nantwi’s Murder Wrote to Dare to Struggle – ChicagoDrawings sent to us by M Cleaver On March 15th, Dare to Struggle – Chicago wrote letters to inmates at the Midstate Correctional Facility in New York who spokeout to…
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