Prisoners Across US & Canada go on hunger and work strike to protest no wages/low wages, end of solitary confinement, for education programs & an end to mass incarceration Story Transcript MARC STEINER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Marc Steiner. Great to have you with us once again. We are now into our […]
Author Archives: Amani Sawari
Amani Sawari is a writer, founder of her site sawarimi.org, currently residing in Seattle Washington where she graduated from the University of Washington with her Bachelor's in both Media Communications and Law & Public Policy. Her passion for prisoner advocacy and prisoner rights has always stemmed from her understanding of the negative sociopolitical effects of stereotypical media portrayals of marginalized communities. Amani is also a poet teaching poetry techniques to students incarcerated in King County Juvenile Detention Center. She uses her poetry as a form of healing, reflection and protest as well as a tool for educating to those of opposing perspectives. While Amani is an advocate and prison abolitionist she also enjoys singing and writing music.