"Research shows it costs taxpayers $31,065 a year to criminalize a single person experiencing homelessness while the yearly cost for providing supportive housing is $10,051."
https://t.co/26b85LFTNL
EXCLUSIVE: Arizona is inducing the labor of pregnant prisoners against their will — sometimes as early as three weeks before their due date. Health care experts call the policy unethical. Reproductive justice advocates say it's a human rights violation. https://t.co/x4qGhobO5g
I volunteer as a translator with asylees coming through the Texas border and I wanted to make a thread on who these migrants are, what help is actually needed and why what DeSantis and Abbott are doing is so needlessly cruel.
Everyone is talking about it, but so few understand
That thread asking people how they would get out of homelessness if they only had $20 is literally people saying "I would simply just'" and then saying something that is literally impossible, unavailable, or has been made illegal by local city governments.
Also, take a look at your local candidates and where they stand on these matters. Mainers, Paul Lepage is not only pro-forced birth, he is also pro-forced corporate ownership of our water sources. #fightwaterprivatization#2022elections#Maine
These companies don't care about the communities, just the profit. They did this not too long ago in Maine. The community resisted, but the courts were stacked. And 2022 Gubnatorial candidate Lepage helped orchestrate the whole thing.
The Rio Grande is dry for the first time in my lifetime and the Niagara water bottling company is fighting my community to steal 1.5 billion gallons of water to sell.
We need to stand together to protect water rights in Maine, New Mexico, and around the country. Stop letting these big companies take what isn't theirs! The offset of "jobs" and the "boost to the local economy" is not sufficient. (Especially when they get tax subsidies)
Jon Stewart: "Every one of those Republicans that voted against healthcare for veterans, voted for the slush fund for the war. They don't support the troops. They support the war machine"
Over 50 children—some as young as 12, have been found to be working at an Alabama Hyundai parts plant and it’s a non-story. Absolutely shameful that it’s happening and shameful that our media is burying the story.
The obsession of the capitalist class with "innovation" sits awkwardly alongside their insistence that "there is no alternative".
We are allowed to imagine new gadgets but not a just economy.
Federal Prosecutors say Ghislaine Maxwell "made the choice to sexually exploit numerous underage girls." She is set to be sentenced Tuesday. One could make an argument that the Supreme Court made the same exact choice this past Friday.
#RoeVWade#ChristianNationalism