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Banning the Box!
Legislation recently passed in San Francisco that takes another step towards ending the rampant discrimination and criminalization of poor folks in Amerikka. "Its been a good morning, ‘cause we are ending the rampant discrimination that formerly incarcerated people face when they apply for a job, " shouted Dorsey Nunn from All of Us or None from San Francisco's City Hall steps. "As well as every time they apply for housing, for student loans and for benefits when they apply for an opportunity to live again."
The roar of triumphant words rolled out of Dorsey's mouth at a press conference on Tuesday celebrating a new piece of legislation that would "ban the box" from every application in the City and County of SF. The "box" that appears on every City and county job application as well as housing, financial aid and welfare applications. The "box" that asks you if you have ever been convicted of a crime. I know that box well and as he spoke of today's triumph, I reflected on my life inside the confines of the "box" and its power to keep me jobless, houseless, and poverty-stricken for many years of my life.
"We are announcing a historic victory today and this is how it will work," said the next speaker on this crisp January morning, Linda Evans. Evans is an organizer with All of Us Or None, a project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. "On every application for employment in the City and County of San Francisco there is box that asks: Have you been convicted by a court? In which you are required to list any convictions, misdemeanors , felonies, traffic violations."
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"We are announcing a historic victory today and this is how it will work," said the next speaker on this crisp January morning, Linda Evans. Evans is an organizer with All of Us Or None, a project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. "On every application for employment in the City and County of San Francisco there is box that asks: Have you been convicted by a court? In which you are required to list any convictions, misdemeanors , felonies, traffic violations."
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