Building collective power to undo white supremacy and organize for human rights inc. education, healthcare, economic dignity & reforming mass incarceration.
@boys8n @Bambimaven @clovapus Science once believed that white men had bigger brains than white women and folks of color; that the world was flat and the sun revolved around the earth. #ComeAgain
A NYS contract with @JPay_com will give 52,000 incarcerated people "free" tablets.
@PrisonPolicy found they will be charged:
- 35¢ per email
- $3.50 for deposits less than $20
- $9 for a 30 minute video chat
JPay makes $9 million over 5 years. This cannot happen.
Having practiced white supremacy for decades, Tom Farr has demonstrated defiance of equal protection. Every senator who condemned racism in 2017 must vote to prevent him from having power on the federal judiciary. https://t.co/oRKRNqJolr
One-third of all people killed by strangers in America are killed by police. 97% of the officers are not charged with a crime, 99% are not convicted. Even in the most egregious cases the system refuses to hold police accountable: https://t.co/1lpFvmDp4C
When asked if he would repent of his civil disobedience, Thoreau said, “If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?” In the face of so much injustice, we all need to stop behaving so well. #MoralResistance
People are not poor b/c they spend their money on ‘women & booze,’ @ChuckGrassley. Working people are poor b/c we inherited an unjust distribution of wealth & ppl like you work to keep it that way.
@ChuckGrassley When you’ve been seduced by Koch money & intoxicated by power, it can be hard to see clearly. But Scripture is sobering: “He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has lifted up the humble.”
We don’t know who is going to have the next big idea in this country, but they’re probably going to need to get online to do it. The decision made today by @realDonaldTrump’s @FCC only tilts the playing field to favor the rich & powerful who have already made it. #NetNeutrality
Okay, can we go back to a 26 year-old lesbian whose wife is African American won a state Senate race in Okla-fucking-homa last night - in a district Trump won +40 with 67% of vote a year ago! That's not just a shift, that's a tectonic shift.