• Home
• Getting Started
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• How to Use This Web Site
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• Fact Sheets
  • Basic Facts
  • Trends
  • US vs. the World
  • Poverty
  • The Economy
  • System as Racist
  • System as Anti-Youth
  • System as Anti-Queer
  • System as Anti-Women
  • System as Anti-Immigrant
  • Violence
  • Consequences
  • Timeline & History
• Overview
• Conservative Agendas
  • Tough on Crime Movement
  • Criminalizing the Reservation
  • Faith & Religion
  • Women & Reproductive Rights
  • War on Terrorism & Immigrants
  • Youth
  • Victims' Rights
  • Profits from Incarceration
  • Conservative Infrastructure
• Organizing Advice
• Resources
• Endnotes
• Download Chapters

Getting Started

What is Defending Justice: An Activist Resource Kit?

Edited by Palak Shah, Defending Justice is a 275-page printed resource that analyzes the role of the Right and the State in the Criminal "Justice" system. It includes overview articles, factsheets, Q&A with activists, and organizing advice on various topics such as:

• Rise of the modern "Tough on Crime" Movement,
• Criminalizing the Reservation and Movements for Sovereignty,
• Faith and Religion,
• Women and Reproductive Rights,
• War on Terrorism and Immigrants,
• Youth,
• Victims' Rights,
• Profits from Incarceration,
• and Securing a Conservative Infrastructure.

This activist resource kit is a publication of Political Research Associates (PRA). Based in Boston, MA, PRA is an independent, nonprofit research center that exposes and challenges the Right and larger oppressive movements, institutions, and forces.