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Peebles
iceddarkroast
We're living in a country that has no interest in using our collective tax dollars to fund healthcare or education. We have normalized crowdfunding treatment for patients, PPE for healthcare
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Godfrey Santos Plata, Candidate, CA AD-53
GodfreyPlata
#LA: 10 things they won't show you on the news about the Pan Pacific Park/Fairfax rally:1)Families of multiple murdered black folks were present; leaders did a roll call2)That #BlackLivesMatter
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Alissa Walker
awalkerinLA
“Imagine restorative justice programs that get to the root of the problem and harm that was done and focus on healing and centering humanity, instead of investing the bulk of
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🔪Sarah Carbiener🌶
notanothersarah
Couple years ago, a show I was on sent the whole writers room on ride alongs. The majority of the calls were to deal with someone having a mental break,
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IAN - ACAB
ianaIexander
i woke up with these thoughts racing in my brain so it’s time for a twitter rant. i’m all for Universal Basic Income and here’s what i’ve learned. the scarcity
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Jacob Woocher
jacobwooch
Ok when we talk about taxing the rich in LA / California and using that to help poor people here, obviously that's correct.But really that money should ALSO be redistributed
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maybe: #RentZero
ricci_sergienko
Let's review the LA Times piece on the budget crisis.#PeoplesBudgetLA @BLMLA @PplsCityCouncil @KtownforAll @GroundGameLA @WP4BL @CoCoSouthLA @LA_StudentsDsrv @StreetWatchLA @SunriseMvmtLA https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05
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People's City Council - Los Angeles
PplsCityCouncil
Amazed at the amount of civic engagement we saw today with the Budget and Finance Committee public comment period. We have a busy week though!Tomorrow:Police Commission 9:30 AMCity Council 10
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Nicole Donanian-BlandĂłn
nicole_d14
starting a thread of every LA elected that is tweeting about today’s verdict but continues to vote for more cop money let’s start with our piece of shit @MayorOfLA who
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John Raphling
JRaphling
“A Roadmap for Re-imagining Public Safety in the United States” @hrw paper on policing, recommendations for structural reform: Divest from policing, invest in communities, strengthen accountabilityhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/12/roa
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Jerrica Long
Jerricalong_
They arrested thousands of people to avoid arresting four.Let that sink in. Whew. This blew up. Promoting myself doesn’t feel right but I do want to post things related to
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Anand Subramanian
asubramanian
COVID-19 is highlighting the failures of a cruel and bloated system — policing@agb4equity and I discuss in this piece and lift up resources and campaigns to invest in community, not
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Nithya Raman
nithyavraman
Let’s talk about the fact that the primacy of policing in our cities is a choice our leaders have made.Politicians have overseen a decades-long spending boom on police. And a
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Hayes Davenport
hayesdavenport
Yesterday's City Council motion to remove LAPD from non-violent calls is a huge victory, totally unprecedented.But it also raises some new issues. LA City Hall is *built* to slow down
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Lettwrs
cantypelettwrs
Hey #LosAngeles,It’s Infrastructure Weekend up in this feed.@MayorOfLA’s still bad at his job, so Twitter is here to save our local economy by checking receipts.You might have noticed how shit
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Mike Bonin
mikebonin
What is the best way to keep our neighborhoods safe? For decades, conventional wisdom said to hire more police officers. That’s what LA did, even if it meant cutting everything
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