#Jails

Thread: How did we get here? In 2015, I shook President Obama’s hand, thanked him for DACA, and asked him to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (also
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I've collected resources to educate/involve yrself. this is by no means comprehensive and many overlap focuses.END CASH BAILNational Bail Out @NationalBailOuthttps://nationalbailout.org/black-mamas-bail-out/The Bail Project @bailproject
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Portland’s protests are continuing, but some of the organizations have shifted, combined or disbanded. If you’re looking to support Portland protestors as of August 4th and can afford to donate,
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THREAD: I’ve been tweeting all morning and I need to step away but it’s been so hard to capture in words what I’m feeling. Gonna try to channel my energy
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It’s more important now than ever to stand in solidarity with grassroots activists and advocates as they fight to defend human rights. That’s why we’re launching our COVID-19 call to
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Really? Is the human rights situation in Portland that dire? Has Portland been ruled for 27 years--under the old Soviet economic system--by an autocrat who views Portland as his personal
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Because it's confusing but important, I'd like to explain in one thread how it happened that an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature & a theoretically Democratic governor (@NYGovCuomo) just voted to lock
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i was gonna write a proper thread about my thoughts after the rally for yuli but its all messy and angry and sad and defeated and disappointed i have never
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COVID Update June 18: Even as surges start to hit the South and West, all states must prepare for what’s next.With only 5-7% of the public infected, we can’t be
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When I saw this tweet from @MrMalky’s about “Bunga Bunga Parties” at @theSNP I took it as a joke. But the more you think about it, the more it looks
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Australian Tragedy :Western Australia holds the distinction of having the highest Indigenous jailing rate on earth.Aboriginal people in WA are incarcerated at a rate eight times greater than the jailing
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JED BARTLETT: *peering at news* Abby, did you see this?ABBY: don't get your blood pressure up. it's not your concern anymore.JED: well, of course it is. can't a man be
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At the risk of being dragged +/or canceled, I want to address this thread bc it's dangerous as fuck imho.1) Brittney Cooper is Black feminist who has introduced many centrists/carceral
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COVID Update April 15: I worked on some visible problems & dove into some less visible ones. Visible— the infrasructure needed to contain future outbreaks. Less visible— prisons, what’s happening
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Can people harmed by #Covid19 sue the government for failing to keep them safe? A (probably very long because I'm a long-winded law professor) thread: 2/ Short answer: It will
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things normalized in latin america that are awful and we live everyday; a thread by an angry chilean tired of seeing people talk from their privilege cw/ this thread mentions
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