Earlier this week, young Ohioans stood up for #abortion access, sending a clear message of defiance to antis at every level of government. Now, it’s time for us to turn up for them.

An Ohioan is facing #pregnancy #criminalization and needs our help. Please give if you can: 💸 #Ohio https://www.gofundme.com/f/ohio-repro-survival

@vfrmedia @chris @Crispius @ProPublica Yeah, but don't you have to agree that #criminalization IS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM because with legal substances we do have measures in place to deal with it!

Lava for Good Live: The War on Drugs - Did Anyone Win?

https://lavaforgood.com/podcast/s1e11-lava-for-good-live-the-war-on-drugs-did-anyone-win/

#WarOnDrugs #JusticeReform #BailReform #Injustice #Incarceration #PrisonPlanet #PleaBargaining #Criminalization #WrongfulConviction #CriminalJustice

Wet'suwet'en Testify on Police Brutality, Imprisonment, at Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 10, 2023

"Wet’suwet’en described their struggle to defend their land, waters, and rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in a virtual hearing. Joined by Amnesty International, representatives from the Nation described the ongoing unjust #criminalization and #harassment of #LandDefenders opposing the construction of the #CoastalGasLink (#CGL) pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. The Canadian government responded to the testimony of the Wet’suwet’en delegation. The testimony described the attacks on the Nation’s rights, including the right to free, prior and nformed consent to resource-extraction projects affecting their territory, as upheld in the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html

#PoliceBrutality #Canada #ACAB
#Wetsuweten #FirstNations #IndigenousNews
#UN #DeclarationOfRights of #IndigenousPeoples
#CulturalGenocide #Pipelines

La Via Campesina and ECVC express their dismay at the authoritarian drift in France https://viacampesina.org/en/la-via-campesina-and-ecvc-express-their-dismay-at-the-authoritarian-drift-in-france/ #Land,WaterandTerritories #InternationalSolidarity #Criminalization

FRANCE | Water-Sharing: “Repression and Detention are Unacceptable”, says Confédération Paysanne https://viacampesina.org/en/france-water-sharing-repression-and-detention-are-unacceptable-says-confederation-paysanne/ #Land,WaterandTerritories #InternationalSolidarity #ConfederationPaysanne #Criminalization #Featured #Europe

@drrjv @tolton Thank you!
You made sense of what’s been knocking around in my head…the Christian 2-tiered class system(worthy & not)...& crucially this:

“…the debate about #abortion is about exactly this. Access to abortion undermines the #christian social order. That is why the #criminalization of abortion is a #religious issue (tho’ not mandated in the bible) & yet it is at the same time not a religious issue (non-xians must be subject to the same #restrictions ).”

1930s Chinese female sociologists Zhou Shuzhao, Liu Qingyu & Xu Huifang theorized that social conditions rather than biology shaped the crimes of women, according to Stephanie Montgomery who reconstructs their intellectual contributions in a new Social Science History article https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.34
@sociology @politicalscience @anthropology @economics @econhist @geography @criminology #history #histodons #China #crime #sociology #women #ChicagoSchool #biology #criminalization #SocialReform

It's possible to see the criminalization of sex work as enclosure of productive commons in support of capitalism. I feel like people must already have thought about this and am hoping someone could recommend reading? The argument:

1. Everyone has a body and can potentially use it to make money directly through sex work. Bodies are a means of production available to every person without intermediation.

2. People who can support themselves directly may not choose to engage in wage labor. This threatens capitalism, which requires a steady supply of commoditized labor.

3. Capital's response is to cut off access to the means of production, an enclosure process. Liberated sex work, with no entree for the state through criminalization, threatens capitalism and is therefore illegal.

I'm not claiming that this is the sole reason sex work is criminalized. Criminalized sex work, like all aspects of capitalism, has many uses and so is highly overdetermined. There are many, many reasons for it.

#Capitalism #SexWork #Anarchism #Capital #Anarchy #Criminalization #Enclosure #Commons #Abolition #Commonism #Commons

It is the #obstructing, #criminalization & #persecution of #MigrationEU under false pretenses of fighting (migrant) smuggling, and the criminalization of those who fight against these colonial borders that allow the very existence of this traffic.

@thatguyoverthere @Hyolobrika EXACTLY THAT IS THE PROBLEM!

IMHO the #criminalization of #VictimlessCrimes is the major issue, and the fact that #LackOfAccountability & #LackOfConsequences mostly benefits reactionary agressors more.

Like: People get denied permits for having seeked mental healthcare BUT a neonazi illegally owning a submachine gun got fined AND explicitly not have that recorded so that they won't get red-flagged for any permit application in the future is just bad.

Several states seem to be considering criminalization of travel out of state to obtain abortion services.

One might ask whether that could open the door to criminalization of travel for other purposes when one state prohibits a certain act and another does not.

Consider the impact on Nevada were various states to criminalize travel out of the state for the purpose of gambling?

#criminalization #travel

@Aknorals Jailing #AsylumSeekers is peak #criminalization of #VictimlessCrimes and basically denial of their #HumanRights to freedom unless charged.

It's a blatant disregard of Human Rights and aims at criminalization of those seeking shelter.

@dwnews_bot let's also hope #Germany will get #SelfID #legislation going and end all #criminalization of #VictimlessCrimes sooner than later...

Allum Bokhari - RESTRICT Act, Labeled a ‘TikTok Ban,’ Includes Jail Sentences, Huge Fines for American Citizens:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/29/restrict-act-labeled-a-tiktok-ban-includes-jail-sentences-huge-fines-for-american-citizens/

#RESTRICTAct #Unconstitutional #Criminalization #GovermentAbuse #SmartDevices #Tyranny #SurveillanceState #PoliceState #PrisonPlanet

This article is a year old, still highly relevant.

#GenderEquality #EqualRights #ReproductiveRights #Women #TransRights #WomensRights #LGBTQRights #criminalization #democracy #Abortion #HealthCare #ForcedPregnancy #DomesticViolence #SexualViolence #MAGA #FarRight

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/gender-race-identity/autocracy-and-patriarchy-are-surging-worldwide

Fighting #VPN #criminalization should be Big Tech’s top priority, activists say

Big Tech has nothing to do with it, if someone abuses your service there is nothing you can do. This is an universal rule, everything that can be abused will be abused.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fighting-vpn-criminalization-should-be-big-techs-top-priority-activists-say/

RT @ICJ_org
📢 This #IWD23, we're proud to share that our #8MarchPrinciples are now available online!

The principles aim to address the harmful #humanrights impact of unjustified #criminalization of individuals and communities, such as #women and members of the #LGBTQI community.

RT @BorderlineEurop
Together with his son Mohamad we demand that all charges be dropped and an end to the #criminalization of people on the move! 5/5

➡️ Full story: https://www.borderline-europe.de/unsere-arbeit/kreta-fischer-drohen-4760-jahre-haft-wegen-schmuggel?l=en

🎁 #FreeRead | JeneenInterlandi @ #NYTimes spent a year following #OnPoint (#NYC), a two year-old #outreach program aimed to help #drugusers. Some of the #nonprofit's methods are "#controversial" but are working.

This deep-dive #editorial takes an eyes-wide-open look at failed #antidrug #policies, the #toughlove #Rx many/most Americans want administered to substance abusers, and OnPoint's "radical" (practical) solutions to saving lives and #taxpayer #dollars in #NY.

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After #reading this piece a couple times, I wondered: "Do "Americans" (people who #vote and #politicians) truly *want to solve the addiction, un/de-housed and incarceration epidemics in the US?" Nope. I don't think so.

📷 Donavon Smallwood

#newyork #drug #addiction #homeless #outreach #publichealth #crisis #epidemic #criminalization

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/opinion/drug-crisis-addiction-harm-reduction.html?unlocked_article_code=Bt0zGPJFEPCiY12XPRJJQnTRtGfjFh6YQTOQXCEBgjV4-Z2d2IBfPLpQlQmwsNpzlcTtWWlAwyokBoEHqzcR-R2HQEfCD1OpFSVRJGTtSo0VFlamiuW96mr-u83G_q9yPoONKx7gl65yoDMegCzVNY_jSIyCBGCO3HevTYLXomBn2dmnJbcUP-ETSrW2Eaxy_KAP_GLaiqi0mBOwvTUkY5XEm5iMo9_AelV2JGfG_YD-x0Ja-2zbSeeM5SgaxCl24PkFa_wym7SnTu74ajrIS2LFSwmg_vL4bWPgVZmzYH881y8prFroYVugmgaWskc3KQ2Kc_i3rBxSaAhPLDrFmeJ8EUwKfyzEmm2VeOex&smid=url-share