#Nonviolent

Beth Shelburne

bshelburne

THREAD: I appreciate advocacy for releasing people from jails & prisons, but limiting this opportunity to "nonviolent offenders" ignores the larger problem of categorizing people this way. Offenses are defined

Joseph Nicholas Alexander Blazar Almatzner-DIAMOND

Josephnbdiamond

I HAVE GIVEN TO THE FEW WHO TRULY READ MY TWEETS FROM LAST JULY TO THIS JULY HUGE THINGS NOT ONLY ABOUT MY TRUE STORY BUT ABOUT THE TRUE VIP

doug brown

dougbrown8

This is what Portland Police and Oregon State police are doing to nonviolent protesters. What?

Omar Wasow

owasow

A useful way to think about how protests work is a cascade model. Before a standing ovation, folks look around to see what others are doing. Signals from media +

Christopher Wilson

wolverinewilson

"No one should countenance John Brown's violence or his effort to start a war to end slavery...You can be on the right side of history but still be wrong." @hwbrands

Charlotte Evergarden (Married)🌹🥂

RedCharlotte_

guns don't prevent tyranny or protect freedom: https://thinkprogress.org/civilian-guns-do-not-prevent-tyranny-f831c6aa871c/revolutions are actually more likely in states with lower firearm ownership: https://www.theatlantic.com/internat

K

Kscorner_

This quarantine has me thinking. My only two cents and I probably won’t ever tweet about American ‘politics again’ but if you wanna know how I feel about all this

Clint Smith

ClintSmithIII

If someone is incarcerated for a technical violation or a “nonviolent offense” & they die from coronavirus, it is a tragedy.But ppl should be mindful of language that suggest that

imani 🦋

rosetampon

white people: please listen to me. all black people do not think alike. some believe this fight needs to involve violence and some do not. if you consider yourself an

Rich Puchalsky Ⓐ

RichPuchalsky

A thread about the debate and the horribleness of the Presidential pardon exchange. Will be boring/ under documented to prison abolitionistshttps://twitter.com/RichPuchalsky/status/1319478480501940228 Here's a short explainer for libera

Elad Nehorai

PopChassid

Heshy Tischler was arrested early because he tried to organize a riot the day he was supposed to stroll in to get charged. The fact that he was even given

Be A King

BerniceKing

I know many people want to put my father in a ‘Love & Civility’ box. I get it. It makes him more palatable and it allows people to think that

Christopher Connelly

hithisischris

1/ Last week, I spoke with Mendy Forbes, who is serving time at FMC Carswell, a medical prison in Fort Worth. This weekend, her father told me she was put

Maddie ☾

mads_armentrout

Incase anyone was wondering tomorrow at 7pm there is a Black Lives Matter protest for #GeorgeFloyd in AZ. I encoruage anyone who is going to this to peacefully protest. PHX

✡️ Never Again Action ✡️

NeverAgainActn

Never Again is a sacred promise to study, name, and fight fascism. It's what drives us to get arrested blocking ICE detention centers. Now, for the safety & freedom of

Rep. John Yarmuth

RepJohnYarmuth

It is expected that the Grand Jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case will be announced soon. I have no inside information on the exact timing or what that decision