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Violence is a Community Problem that Must be Solved by the Community

Nov 21, 2024 | proximate.press | Pam Bailey

For the past six years, Fundación Corona has worked with residents of municipalities across Colombia to develop solutions to some of their most pressing social challenges. One of those ills is violence among and against youth. While it’s a scourge common to many disadvantaged communities around the world, it’s not too often that residents (including young people) are tasked with solving the problem.
We Are Not Numbers by Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey

Nov 20, 2024 | waterstones.com | Ahmed Alnaouq |Pam Bailey

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWFollowing the 2014 Gaza War and decades of oppression and resistance, storytelling platform We Are Not Numbers (WANN) was founded to give a voice to the youth of Gaza. Since then, young Palestinians, mostly living in the besieged Gaza Strip, have used the platform to chronicle the human impact of occupation and blockade. In doing so, they have passionately fought to be recognised not as numbers but as human beings with lives, hopes, and dreams.
Prisoners Say Routine Use of Lockdowns Has Led to More Violence and Suicides

Sep 29, 2024 | truthout.org | Pam Bailey

Mitchell Bolder, a 60-year-old Black man known to his friends as “Rusty,” died by suicide on June 25 at the federal penitentiary in Victorville, California. Local media reported that he was “found unresponsive,” and “prison staff quickly initiated life-saving measures and requested emergency medical services. Despite continued efforts, Mr. Bolder was transported to a local hospital and later pronounced deceased.”But that is not the full truth.
Democracy Starts With How You Live

Aug 20, 2024 | proximate.press | Pam Bailey

August 2024August 2024August 20, 2024Just as integrity, or corruption, starts with how each one of us lives our lives, so does democracy. That’s why I like the range of articles we offer you in this edition of the Beyond Elections newsletter. In another “sphere” of my life, I advocate for individuals in U.S. prisons, at the federal level.
When Will the United States Start Taking Citizens’ Assemblies Seriously?

Jun 19, 2024 | proximate.press | Pam Bailey

Last year, a headline in The Guardian asked a provocative question: “Citizens’ assemblies: Are they the future of democracy?” It’s a reflection of just how popular this approach to democracy has become in many parts of the (mostly Western) world. Citizens’ assemblies are random collections of people, selected by lottery from the general population, usually convened to deliberate on a specific policy question.
Introducing… Beyond Elections

Jun 19, 2024 | proximate.press | Pam Bailey

Last month, I dropped in on the encampment at George Washington University, where students were challenging U.S. support of the Israeli assault on Gaza. I watched the students serve from a communal food table and create posters, and spoke to some of the volunteer instructors at the teach-ins.
When the Body Becomes a Battleground

Mar 6, 2024 | aninjusticemag.com | Pam Bailey

By Pam BaileyIncarceration is characterized by the theft of one’s dignity, an almost total lack of privacy, and daily humiliations — both micro and macro. One of the most extreme of those humiliations, which very few people on the outside have ever heard about, is called the “dry cell.” I bet you’d never guess what that means unless you’ve spent time inside. But you’re about to find out. Leon Stanton is a 43-year-old Pennsylvania man incarcerated at USP McCreary in Kentucky.
Palestinians Just Want to Be Treated Like Human Beings

Nov 13, 2023 | thenation.com | Ahmed Alnaouq |Pam Bailey |Joan Walsh |Lizzy Ratner

Activism / We don’t need to be interrogated on TV about the deaths of our families. We don’t need to be talked about in clinical terms. We just need a chance to tell our stories. Ad PolicyAs the numbers of dead, wounded, and homeless in Gaza mount, surpassing all previous wars against this small strip of land, we can sense a sort of collective numbness beginning to set in among the media, the public, and government leaders.
The Year Europe Revolted

Oct 28, 2023 | thenation.com | David Bell |Joan Walsh |Ahmed Alnaouq |Pam Bailey

Books & the Arts / The year Europe revolted. A new history by Christopher Clark on the 1848 revolutions. Ad PolicyThis article appears in the November 13/20, 2023 issue. In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient Egypt when I learned about them at school.” Now, however, he sees important parallels with the present.
Hunger Strike! Forever the Tool of Prisoner Resistance

Jan 25, 2023 | aninjusticemag.com | Pam Bailey

But is the long-term cost to the prisoner worth it? By Pam BaileyHunger strikes are an act of very last resort for prisoners who feel they are being treated inhumanely, and there is either no other way to challenge it or the grievance system is dysfunctional and/or biased. Perhaps the most famous example is the 1981 hunger strike by members of the Irish Republican Army as they fought for independence from England, chronicled in the book Ten Men Dead.