InEquality Mn

A community based coalition resisting mass incarceration and the school to prison pipeline.

[InEquality Mn @InequalityMn]

@24nascar24fan24 HI Kathy, did you play soccer with Houston United around 1974?

[We’re Losing Recipes! @SoualiganAmazon]

I’ve kinda grown weary of this dichotomy re: the systemic vs the individual/collective.

We create, sustain & reproduce systems.

Systems are not abstract entities that people cannot be blamed for. Systems do not function without people.

[Scientific American @sciam]

Inmates in solitary confinement have far fewer protections than the nonhuman species we use in lab experiments https://t.co/Nk3cu21OT9

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

63% of Indigenous and Black people in the US have had a family member in jail for at least one night.
48% of Latinos and 42% of whites report they have had a family member in jail for a night.
https://t.co/6TtqGah6gw

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

"At the heart of this violence is the failure to recognise that Indigenous peoples & local communities are the true owners of their lands."
https://t.co/wgo6lzXDNx

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

Protests continue at Albuquerque Public Schools after teacher cuts Native American student’s hair and verbally abuses others. https://t.co/gqKB8GrwXK

[UAINE @mahtowin1]

"What You Need to Know About #MMIWG2S (Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls & 2Spirits)"
Lots of good information and analysis in this piece.

[InEquality Mn @InequalityMn]

Happening tomorrow!! 3:30-5 pm voice your opinion on ST Paul city counsel passing a budget that prides cops over people. https://t.co/1Mii1lKKO3

[InEquality Mn @InequalityMn]

And support BIPOC community organizations that have been working over the years for community based solutions. https://t.co/IDi685odOn

[Polemicist @PalmTreesnGz]

The story of #JazmineHeadley should be on so many folks’ radar. Please find ways to support her and others like her. Black mothers who are routinely targets of state violence via negligence, hostility, and systematized marginalization.

[InEquality Mn @InequalityMn]

Happening tomorrow!! 3:30-5 pm voice your opinion on ST Paul city counsel passing a budget that prides cops over people. https://t.co/1Mii1lKKO3

[Twin Cities IWOC @tciwoc]

Asking our new commissioners to make motion in the new year https://t.co/mZr3baoqzC

[Twin Cities IWOC @tciwoc]

NEW: 1 in 3 people in Minnesota are taken to prison each year without committing a new crime. People are locked up for petty technical violations of parole or probation - like getting stuck in a snowstorm and arriving home late.

We have the power to change this.

[indianz.com @indianz]

Native activists are celebrating after a federal judge blocked pre-construction activities on the Keystone XL Pipeline, including preparations for worker camps linked to violence against Native women. #NoKXL https://t.co/265Q6cHVaM

[indianz.com @indianz]

A jury in Nebraska has cleared a fired police officer for beating a Native man who later died. Renita Chalepah, mother of 29-year-old Zachary Bear Heels, and activist Frank LaMere discuss the verdict in the shocking case. #NativeLivesMatter https://t.co/rj4S2atRMe

[indianz.com @indianz]

Federal law enforcement officials and Native women will be confronting the "silent crisis" of the missing and murdered in Indian Country at a hearing on Wednesday, December 12. #MMIW #MMIWG https://t.co/M416ug2LbF