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Articles by Laura Whitehorn
Black Agenda Report
Amber-Rose Howard is Executive Director of CURB, Californians United for a Responsible Budget. CURB is a Black-led coalition of 80 grassroots organizations dedicated to reducing the number of incarcerated people in that state. She joins us from Los Angeles.
Remembering Kathy Boudin
Kathy Boudin and I met in 1966 when we were organizers in Cleveland with the Community Union, a loosely linked national network of grassroots groups determined to create a new and more participatory democracy by mobilizing citizens of disenfranchised communities into a powerful social and political force. I was 20 years old; Kathy was 21.
The Seabirds Don’t Lie
By Laura Whitehorn Toni Cade Bambara and Laura Whitehorn in Vietnam This might be a more sensational story if I wrote that I saw you for the first time standing tall and imperious, wrapped head-to-toe in African cloth as we met at JFK to board the flight for our trip to Vietnam. But you were all about the truth, and that wasn’t the first time I saw you.
MR Online | I See Palestine
In response to Roger Cohen, “Why Americans See Israel the Way They Do,” New York Times, August 3, 2014. . . . The bias of the cowboy-and-Indians movies I grew up on in the 1950s has long been exposed: swallowing up Native American land was the aim, and the myth of the dangerous savages who threatened the very existence of innocent European settlers was created to advance such expansionist goals.
Release Aging People in Prison demands that New York State Bring Our Elders Home!
Adopt a common-sense approach of releasing elder inmates, who are aging in prison, have already served considerable time, and pose little or no threat to the public. Why is this important? The state of New York needlessly confines thousands of senior citizens to cruel and degrading conditions in prison.
Cuomo must reshape state's Parole Board
The New York state Parole Board has recently come under great scrutiny from opposite sides of the political spectrum. While criminal justice advocates call on the board to release more people from prison, the New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association — the largest municipal police union in the world — and some state senators are demanding fewer releases and more punishment. In response to both sides, Gov.
Cuomo's scant use of clemency short-circuits justice: View
Laura Whitehorn Published 12:20 p.m. ET Oct. 6, 2016 Prisons turned into 'cruel nursing homes' as Parole Board and governor fail to act A Sept. 17 Candles for Clemency rally and vigil outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Mount Kisco home.(Photo: SUBMITTED/Kimberly Rivera) On Sept. 17, for the third year in a row, I traveled to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's home in Mount Kisco.
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