Racial_Justice_IL

Grassroots #CivilRghts activists organizing to dismantle structural & systemic racial bias & confront white supremacy in rural Illinois. #BlackLivesMatter

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Like Vice President Harris, Governor @Tim_Walz believes that government works to serve us. Not just some of us, but all of us. That’s what makes him an outstanding governor, and that’s what will make him an even better vice president. Michelle and I couldn’t be happier for Tim and Gwen, their family, and our country.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Mark my words: Gen Z is watching. Gen Z is paying attention. And Gen Z will make Republicans in Tennessee — & across the nation — pay for messing around with our lives in 2024.

I discussed the outrage & fury Gen Z feels on MSNBC with @SRuhle & @dellavolpe. Watch below👇

[Rhonda Elaine Foxx @RhonnieF]

Black jobs? National Women’s Engagement Director for @JoeBiden

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Vice President @KamalaHarris will lead us forward. Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are trying to drag us backward. But we are not going back.

[ALZ Illinois Advocacy @AlzILAdvocacy]

Please join us in thanking @RepJoyceMason for co-sponsoring critical legislation to support Illinoisans affected by Alzheimer's and all other dementia. #ENDALZ #AlzILAdvocacy

[Protect Our Care IL @ProtectILCare]

Now the HPA heads to the Senate, take action to ask your Senator to support: https://t.co/ntSfzIgsAd
@RepAndrade40 @repdagmara @RepHarryBenton @staterep46 @RepMBC @RepKellyCassidy @StateRepCrespo @delgadorep @RepDidech @StateRepKim @RobynGabel @RepMaryGill @egonzalezjr96 @RepJGB

[Consumers for a Better Grid @ForABetterGrid]

Thank you @RepJoyceMason for your efforts this session to make RTOs more transparent and accountable to consumers. We appreciate your leadership!

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

This is why Republicans work so hard to keep history out of schools. They don’t want white children to know what their parents and grandparents did.

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

My GOP-funded opponent was CAMPAIGN MANAGER for a Republican extremist who wanted to pass a constitutional amendment banning abortion. And the race was for this same congressional seat!

We can’t trust anyone willing to sell out our abortion rights. #StLouisIsNotForSale

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

There is a corruption crisis on the Supreme Court.

And that court has shown time and time again that it is not capable of policing itself.

Congress, as a co-equal branch, must rein them in. Each day we do not, our democracy is at greater risk than the last. The time is now.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

The term “unskilled labor” is used by the ruling class to justify poverty wages.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Donald Trump has vowed that he will be a dictator on “day one.”

Dictators take people’s freedoms away—the freedom to vote, the freedom to love who you love openly, and the freedom to live safe from the horror of gun violence.

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

President Biden and I took new actions on immigration this week — because we believe in keeping families together, not tearing them apart.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1942, Job Maseko, a WW2 hero, sank a NAZI ship with a bomb made from a tin can with condensed milk. He was denied the highest military decoration, due to his race.  

A THREAD

[Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton @LtGovStratton]

What are you doing to cool off this weekend?

My choice? Italian ice! #FridayFeeling

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

Y’all better listen to this icon’s stories. Some of you want to engage in a nostalgia that erases the horrors and degradation of American apartheid in order to tell a feel-good story of progress. Reggie Jackson refused to allow it. We cannot move on as so many want until we tell the truth and until we make repair.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

If we have money for war, we have money for reparations.

The U.S. government **OWES** the descendants of enslaved Black people both cash AND systemic reparations for the harms of enslavement, Black Codes, redlining, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and more.

Reparations NOW.

[Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton @LtGovStratton]

To me, this is the spirit of Juneteenth! 🙌🏾

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

It's Juneteenth AND reparations
It's Juneteenth AND community safety
It's Juneteenth AND housing for all
It's Juneteenth AND Medicare For All
It's Juneteenth AND education equity
It's Juneteenth AND voting rights
It's Juneteenth AND union jobs

It's Juneteenth AND. AND. AND…

[Pretty Poodles of EB @sgrho_eb]

Happy Juneteenth from the Greater Women of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated!

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865. Enjoy this day of celebrating freedom!

#Juneteenth #SigmaGammaRho