Avalon

⚖️ AU JD/MPP 💫 repro & survivor & social & transformative justice 🏛️ policy 📺 pop culture fan 💜🖤 she/her

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

Under the First Amendment, possessing literature cannot be criminal.

If prosecutors are correct that Daniel Sanchez moved zines because he feared they’d try to use them against his wife, that’s a commentary on their lawlessness, not his.

Our statement:
https://t.co/F4fRq2vNoZ

[Fire Ant Movement Defense @fireantdefense]

Des has been sentenced to 30 years because he & his wife Mari stood up against the concentration camp in their city. He wasn't even at the protest. She got 70 years.

If you think you can stay safe from this by staying home, please take some time to study the history of fascism.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor gave Sanchez Estrada a 30-year term.

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

people who showed up to a protest outside an ICE facility and left when things got chaotic are getting HALF CENTURY sentences in federal court right now, my god

[Avalon @avalonroche]

@JoyceCarolOates The charges here are federal and the consequences much more severe than a traffic violation. There is no guarantee that under the current conditions in DC and the federal judiciary a judge will dismiss the charges upfront. It's not worth the risk to not have a lawyer.

[Avalon @avalonroche]

My whole job RN is writing long memos and every time I open one I get Adobe asking me if I want AI to summarize it and every time I get so mad like bitch I wrote this!!! I don't need a robot to summarize my work!!!

[cron mom @sophaskins]

ok independently of those issues, this shit is like, anti-intellectual fuckass shit

"appears to be a long document" it's 18 pages. hold your horses.

"save time by reading a summary" buddy it's a sewing pattern. there's very little text, and obviously not summarizable

[Avalon @avalonroche]

"building her brand" oh my God like that's actually her lived experience!! That's her LIFE. This perspective is so telling.

[Avalon @avalonroche]

Saying that Maysoon Zaid is "building their brand on disability justice" is astounding. Zaid became widely known in *2013* with her TED Talk on disability. She's not building a brand, she is a disabled Palestinian who's been doing this work for a long time!! Unbelievable

[Donate to campaigns in pinned tweet @BobsPraxis]

Free speech champion, lmao! Argument makes no sense. As for taking precautions bit, are you having a go at Adam or Hasan for their calloussness? Liberalism is all about aesthetics no substance as Taylor Lorenz demonstrates here.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

I count NINE armed personnel guarding a tourist who *briefly put her hand in the water* of a public monument—after a plainclothes sting operation to find water-touchers rolled her up.

Anyone who thinks this is how you should run a government is mentally ill.

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

They’re deadass using plainclothes officers to catch people touching the water.

[Center on Conscience & War @CCW4COs]

Example of what the military tells children they recruit. This one for a 17-year-old (who doesn’t even turn 18 until next year). None of these threats are true.

Working with us, he did not report for basic training. But we receive calls for help in this situation constantly.

[Senator Ankit Jain @senatorjain]

Is this worth it to recover a stolen car? This is why DC severely restricts police pursuits. The House has passed a bill—HR 5143–that could create dozens of these kinds of incidents a year. If you live outside DC, call your Senator and tell them to vote No on HR 5143

[sarah @sarah_micheleg]

my mayor socialist
my train gay
my record club analog
bad day to be a hot dog

[Avalon @avalonroche]

Values like anti-capitalism, bodily autonomy, social equality across income, race, class, gender etc., the state's role as a providing force vs. a controlling one, etc. all are inconsistent with our carceral system.

[Avalon @avalonroche]

Broadly, it's the combination of how bad the US system is and how policing and prison derive from our specific history of race based chattel slavery. At a personal level, I think if you hold coherent leftist and even progressive beliefs and examine them critically, it's obvious.

[𝔽eral ℙawg ℍunter @FeralPHunter]

In all seriousness, how the hell did prison abolition become a thing on the left?

[Avalon @avalonroche]

I'd never argue that this is everyone. Survivors are not a monolith and I always support and prioritize whatever a survivor wants and what they need for their safety. But that diversity in experience is one reason why our universal punitive system doesn't work.

[Avalon @avalonroche]

People talking about how alternatives to prison are harmful to victims of sexual violence specifically have not worked with victims. I heard so many stories when I was doing that work where the victim wanted an apology and treatment/work to prevent re-offense, not a court process

[DivestSPD @DivestSPD]

What is the goal of imprisonment? What social function does it serve? To deter rape? To get retribution for victims?

If the carceral system harms the victims in the process of establishing what amounts to zero deterrence, then yes, it is better that 100% of rapists walk.

[Avalon @avalonroche]

Most sexual violence is perpetrated by someone the victim knows. Do you think all victims are suddenly comfortable afterward about a putting a friend/family member in a brutal and violent institution? Do you think they want that responsibility? Want that on their conscience?

[Avalon @avalonroche]

@peterawolf Two examples for you
https://t.co/NBM2mzcGar

https://t.co/JQ0qgpyek3

[Avalon @avalonroche]

We don't have to answer this question or have a specific system drafted to know that something better is out there! It's disingenuous to require a perfect answer to this question before we can move forward with the conversation as a whole and that's exactly why people ask.

[Peter Wolf @peterawolf]

This comic was published (by a prison abolitionist!) almost a decade ago, and it's still the best they can do.

[Avalon @avalonroche]

@peterawolf This might be hard for you to understand, but your perspective is not the only one. Victims of violence are not a monolith and want many different things as a response to their experience and sometimes that is the person making amends instead of going to prison.