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Chara Fisher
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01/06/2011

Georgia Prison Strike an Outgrowth of Nation's Addiction to Incarceration

By Chara Fisher Jackson, ACLU of Georgia & Vanita Gupta, Center for Justice & Chara Fisher Jackson, ACLU of Georgia at 2:49pm

Business as usual ground to a halt December 9 at nine prisons across the state of Georgia. In what is being called the largest prison strike in American history, tens of thousands of prisoners internally organized a nonviolent protest, announcing to the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) that they would neither work nor leave their cells until their requests were heard. They weren't asking for bubble baths or afternoon tea; they were asking for basic human rights: access to education, nutrition, healthcare and compensation for their labor, among other things.

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01/06/2011

Georgia Prison Strike an Outgrowth of Nation's Addiction to Incarceration

By Chara Fisher Jackson, ACLU of Georgia & Vanita Gupta, Center for Justice & Chara Fisher Jackson, ACLU of Georgia at 2:49pm

Business as usual ground to a halt December 9 at nine prisons across the state of Georgia. In what is being called the largest prison strike in American history, tens of thousands of prisoners internally organized a nonviolent protest, announcing to the state's Department of Corrections (DOC) that they would neither work nor leave their cells until their requests were heard. They weren't asking for bubble baths or afternoon tea; they were asking for basic human rights: access to education, nutrition, healthcare and compensation for their labor, among other things.

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06/23/2011
STPP

Worse Than Slavery? Black Women and Families Face Extreme Accusations from Roadside Campaign

By Chara Fisher Jackson, ACLU of Georgia at 4:05pm

Last weekend, on the day designated to celebrate the abolition of slavery, an anti-abortion group decided to exploit the observance of Juneteenth to spread a demeaning and insulting message to the black community. Through billboards erected throughout the Atlanta area, the group makes the outrageous assertion that a black woman's private health decision is more harmful than slavery. These billboards accuse black women who have made the difficult and personal decision to end a pregnancy of making slavery "seem overly generous."

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03/12/2012
Emergency Contraception

Not Again: Two More Pharmacies Refuse to Sell Emergency Contraception to Men

By Chara Fisher Jackson, ACLU of Georgia & Olivia Turner, ACLU of Alabama & Brigitte Amiri, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project at 3:30pm

It feels like we are banging our head against a wall. In recent years, pharmacies in several states have refused to sell emergency contraception ("EC") to men. We've recently learned of two additional incidents — both at Walgreens — in Georgia and Alabama. The discrimination in the Georgia and Alabama stores followed the same pattern that we've seen in Texas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi: a man attempts to purchase the medication for his female partner only to be confronted by a pharmacist who refuses to sell him the medication for the sole reason that he is a man.

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