A Death Sentence for Disorderly Conduct
The story of Shali Tilson, a 22-year-old who died from dehydration at a jail in Georgia.
26 Article(s) by: Jaclynn Ashly
Jaclynn Ashly is an independent journalist currently based in the United States.
Mohammed el-Kurd’s Unabashed Fury Against Israeli Apartheid
Mohammed el-Kurd has become the face of Palestinian resistance to Israeli apartheid. His fearlessness and ability to speak truth to power has helped galvanize the global anti-Zionist movement.
Haitian Sugarcane Cutters Work as Indentured Servants in the Dominican Republic
Haitian workers, fleeing destitution, harvest 6,000 pounds of sugarcane a day for poverty wages in the Dominican Republic. Jacobin talked to some of them.
Dominicans of Haitian Descent Are Living in a Stateless Nightmare
Brought to the Dominican Republic by the promise of jobs in the sugar fields, Haitian Dominicans have spent generations in a Kafkaesque trap of statelessness, enduring decades of exploitation and even government-sanctioned murder.
The Canadian Mining Company Dominicans Call “Worse Than Columbus”
We traveled to the Dominican Republic to talk to rural farmers and workers battling a Canadian mining company. “We had no concept of what the devil was until Barrick Gold came to our lands,” one person told us.
The Massacre in Dersim Still Haunts Kurds in Turkey
A reporter for Jacobin traveled to the Kurdish province of Dersim to investigate the recent discovery of a mass grave from a 1937 massacre. But far from being forgotten, it's an atrocity that still haunts the region today, with millions of Kurds in Turkey struggling for freedom against Erdoğan's latest crackdown.