Aradhana Tiwari

Out here learning (slowly) what is to be taken seriously & how to laugh at the rest while being employed at @LLSJustice and tweeting my own musings

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

“The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.”

— Malcolm X.

[Aradhana Tiwari @AradTiwari]

All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting Truth
is Change.

God
is Change.

- Octavia Butler

[The Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative @SunitaJainLLS]

Have you ever had to testify in court or support a loved one through that traumatizing process? That’s just one of the reasons we hosted the 1st ever Restorative Justice Conference for Trafficking Survivors w @LoyolaLawSchool! Link in bio to learn more and find letters of support

[Foon Rhee @foonrhee]

NEW: Detainees at @ICEgov centers run by @WeAreGeo want labor rights. And #CalOSHA is backing them, along with @CA4ImmiJustice @CCIJustice
@JeanneKuang of @CalMatters explains: https://t.co/Ngg5aGCg3e

[The Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative @SunitaJainLLS]

SJI hosted the first Restorative Justice conference for trafficking survivors @LoyolaLawSchool. Survivors with lived experience discussed our legal system's harms, and what alternatives might look like. To support Restorative Justice efforts and learn more, check out link in bio

[Aradhana Tiwari @AradTiwari]

"Despite identifying 1,053 violations in employee housing facilities in '22 — including electrical hazards and exposed wiring, mold, living rooms with more than seven beds, missing fire extinguishers and windows that didn’t open — the CA Dept did not issue a single citation."

[Aradhana Tiwari @AradTiwari]

CA is over 150,000 sq miles + provides over a 1/3 of the US' vegetables & nearly 3/4 of its fruits and nuts but employs only *3* inspectors to oversee all employer-provided dwellings

Why aren't there more resources allocated for civil enforcement?!

https://t.co/A02dXYdW2o

[The Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative @SunitaJainLLS]

@Senator_Hurtado Thank you to @SenBillDodd @ScottWilkCA @AlvaradoGil2026 @SenBobArchuleta [email protected] @SteveBradford @Steve_Glazer @SenBrianJones @SenJanetNguyen @SenOchoaBogh @SenStevePadilla @Portantino @SenSusanRubio @SenatorSeyarto @LolaForSenate for supporting SB 1157!

[The Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative @SunitaJainLLS]

Thank you to @Senator_Hurtado and the California Senate Committee on Governmental Organization for supporting SB 1157 today! This bill will ensure that state agencies and contractors don't use goods made with forced labor and helps prevent #LaborTrafficking

[Senator Melissa Hurtado @Senator_Hurtado]

Ty #Caleg colleagues for supporting #SB1157 & our work w. @HumanRights_LLS to combat #HumanTrafficking & #ForcedLabor in #SupplyChains & #GovernmentContracts. Watch our committee presentation https://t.co/wsUBarBh5x

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

I can't believe — in the year 2024 — we have to say this, but: Mass incarceration is very real in America.

1.9 million people are incarcerated in the U.S. on any given day. The article conveniently forgets to include jails when talking about the criminal legal system.

🧵

[Chirag, the Bhakta @ChiragB87]

Yea no we call BS on price gouging everyday people for basic utilities @PGE4Me

[tiny @saltduckegg]

another aaron bushnell reddit response
captured march 2023 via the wayback machine

[Eunice Cho @eunicehcho]

Huge congratulations to all of the detained immigrants at the Northwest Detention Center--a decisive victory showing that a $1/day "voluntary" work program violates minimum wage protections.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Time-lapse of a pine tree in 300 days

📹 Box Lapse.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

When the children have to hold press conferences on behalf of themselves to beg for their lives. What a stain on humanity.

[Dr. Frank Leon Roberts @DrFrankRoberts]

"If we knew ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less."

-James Baldwin, 1962

[World Without Prisons 🇵🇸 @withoutprisons]

"We Are Not Numbers"

"Black Lives Matter"

George Floyd mural on a wall in Gaza, Palestine (2020)

(Photo by freelance Palestinian photographer Majdi Fathi in Gaza)

[Aradhana Tiwari @AradTiwari]

I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, even national ones, waiting to be transcended.

One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

-David Mitchell