#Incarceration

Scott Hechinger

ScottHech

In the noise of national news, you may have missed that Lake Charles, LA was devastated by Hurricane Laura. And the public defender office was destroyed. Records gone. Defenders now

Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸

wagatwe

For people who ask "what about the rapists?" during abolition conversations: I'm ADD so I read a lot of different theories on trauma, sexual assault, and recovery.I believe a rape-free

appalachianscum

appalachianscum

Anyway, if you care about people in WV now would definitely be the time to support WV- local movements, efforts, and community aid instead of looking down your nose at

Sunrise Movement 🌅

sunrisemvmt

But here's the thing. It's not just cops killing black people.Capitalism kills black people at a rate cops could never begin to compete with.For starters, there are grossly disproportionate black

Sarrha

teddyandwanda

Winnipeg has a problem with incarceration and embedded criminalization. It’s so weird too, because its history of union activists being killed by police during the strike would lead one to

Jackie Turner

rebelwrit

This morning is heavy. I keep circling back to a conversation I had in a pub with a cop in the UK in 2016, which is when I first found

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

When the Chauvin verdict came out, I saw a few rabbinic colleagues post quoting Deut 16:20, Tzedek tzedek tirdof— justice, justice you shall pursue approvingly, noting that they felt that

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Hey guess what? We have a homeschool-to-prison pipeline now.https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention1/ Grace is a 15-year-old with ADHD and a long history of beha

Brian Howald

bdhowald

Six weeks ago, I had the privilege to be at City Hall for the signing of @bradlander’s Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Act.Due to a conference and coronavirus fears having set in

Colin Kaepernick

Kaepernick7

Thread/ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE: The Movement For a Future Without Policing & PrisonsThe collection of 30 essays will be posted below over the course of the next 4 weeks. #AbolitionForThePeople

tef "duck detective" ebooks

tef_ebooks

please don't rt identifiable pictures of people, please don't repost shock videosif you're going to rt stuff, make it actionable: i.e donation links to trusted groups, likehttps://minnesotafreedomfund.org/ it took a

Varshini Prakash 🌅

VarshPrakash

I am proud to share that @BernieSanders has nominated me to join the Sanders-Biden Task Force on Climate alongside @AOC and @CathFlowers. After much deliberation with allies and movement leaders,

Amy Washburn

AIWashburn

THREAD:1) Statistics show that only 0.5% of rapes that occur result in an arrest. I d/n talk about it much, but I'm a survivor of both rape & entirely separate

Bruce Western

WesternBruce

NYT piece by @just_shelter follows MN renters who faced eviction but organized to purchase their building. “I saw the tenants reimagine — and then reinvent — what stable, affordable housing

Nicole Sanchez

nmsanchez

In the past few years, I've been in the position to lead inside companies while major events, all with racism at their core, have unfolded in the news From the

Justin Carr

musclecarr_37

After the last few days and seeing a lot of "there's better ways" and "George Floyd wouldn't want this" I feel in my position as history student and future teacher