In The Tradition Of Our Ancestors, This Mother’s Day We’re Bailing Out Our Mamas
Today, on our long road to abolition, organizers and communities are taking heed from the lessons of our enslaved ancestors.  We are organizing ourselves to liberate our mothers, sisters, daughters and loved ones living in modern bondage. The criminal legal system, like the system of chattel slavery, robs of us our humanity, trading us and caging us for dollars and cents. Money bail, or the requirement that people pay money to not be kept in jail while waiting for their cases to be resolved, condemns tens of thousands of people to cages everyday—not because they have been found guilty of any crime, but because they have been targeted and are now trapped in a system that they cannot afford to buy their way out of.