Alicia Keys released a beautiful video to get 1 million signatures for prison reform.
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another” - Charles Dickens. Too many children will go to bed tonight with a parent in jail. Let's be part of the change.
"Is this who we are now? Is this who we want to be?"
Those were questions first asked by superstar artist Alicia Keys in a Capitol Hill briefing on Nov. 10, 2015, about the alarming state of mass incarceration in the United States. Knowing that the "land of the free" has more people in prison than any other nation in the world, she is now asking those same questions to her millions of fans — and asking them to do something about it.
Her new campaign, #WeAreHere for #JusticeReformNow is a partnership between her organization, We Are Here, and Cut 50, an organization that aims to cut the U.S. prison population in half over the next 10 years. The campaign is asking 1 million people to sign a petition that calls on Congress and the White House to take action now.
Check out her powerful video below and learn more about the campaign at Cut50.org.
Source: upworthy.com
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