📅 Today 3/3, 5:30p: Criminalizing Protest w/ Prof. Zamir Ben-Dan/Elena Cohen @femmelaw & @FILSAA_CUNY, @cuny_nlg, LALSA, @CUNYBLSA, & @cuny_wocc
❓ Experiences of protestors & activists arrested & prosecuted & attorneys who represent them
➡️ RSVP: https://t.co/ztl53dfIOV
Another BHM Community Spotlight!
Meet Reachelle Ramirez, one of our peer mentors, Co-Director of LALSA, and E-Board Member of @cuny_wocc and the Racial Social Justice Orientation.
Pronouns: She, Her, Hers
Interests: Family Defense, Immigration and Criminal Defense
. @StreetCornerRes Join us on March 12 at 7pm to hear from some of the City Council candidates for District 9, Harlem. The event will take place on zoom. Register on eventbrite for details and zoom link. https://t.co/L6NTA35kdM
Yes! In teaching this in my 14th Amendment course, I rely on @sandylocks to help students synthesize the ways Cheryl Harris, Sumi Cho, @DorothyERoberts, @eliseboddie, @monicacbell, &
& Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz unpack the layers of Whiteness & 14A doctrine’s inability to grapple w it
"Wherever I am in the world, they’re just my colleagues & comrades. We share the same values & build our relationship through a shared commitment to the struggle for social justice. We build solidarity."
-Prof @jeenashahesq in this month's #FacultyFeature
https://t.co/uRRhwZ5S6J
@CUNYLaw was loud with their disrespect, so they need to be equally loud in their attempt to mend harm by SHARING her event today.
S/O also to @cunyjlsa for this afternoon's discussion on Unsettling Zionism, Understanding Anti-Semitism. #WeStandWithNerdeen#westandwithnerdeen
Getting Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill before we get student debt cancellation, medicare 4 all, community control over police, and other measures to help the working class...is just tokenism.
"This tribe called Women of Color is not an ethnicity. It is one of the inventions of solidarity, an alliance, a political necessity that is not the given name of every female w/ dark skin and a colonized tongue, but rather a choice about how to resist & with whom" Aurora Morales
You know who this hurts? Disabled people. A lot of the stuff I need doesn’t look “necessary” to nondisabled people.
This is literally the “special needs” attitude in action.