SCOOP: We obtained docs proving that the Bronx DA is training its prosecutors to purposefully lengthen cases, subverting defendants’ rights to speedy trial en masse:
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A new one from @uncpressblog's "Justice, Power & Politics" series, edited by @hthompsn & @drrhonday. Looks interesting! 👇 https://t.co/GEuAOdtkB3
Short films like this are good jolts for folk who want to sit on the fence or stand in the middle of the road, or argue that issues are too complicated to know what to do. https://t.co/P5EPX1A1Vc
Reginald Fields is the same age that Tamir Rice was. The same age, on the east side of the same city where we all were 12-year-old black boys. Calling the cops on him for mowing a lawn isn’t just bad. It was a threat on his life, and we should say as much. https://t.co/v943XrotzG
Love the article, dont love the photo she took of me lol. Also correction- there were maaaaaaany of our folks on the frontlines fighting the threat to the community gardens jn NYC. But the rest of the article is on point. https://t.co/kF6Oam62En
Today, the statue of J. Marion Sims, the so-called “father of modern gynecology” who experiented on Black enslaved women w/o anesthesia, was taken off its pedestal to be relocated to Greenwood cemetery where he is buried. #TakeDownSims
A8; Universities don't extend speaking invites to everyone.They choose. If the goal is to amplify the voices of the unheard (not really), why not bring residents from surrounding neighborhoods displaced by university expansion to speak on campuses. #ssjresist
Check out/ follow @ScholarsForSJ for ongoing debates about radical ideas, how to make change and on what terms. --- There are no easy answers but many of them will be found outside of our classrooms.
Nice rebuttal.... Thank you. MLK would have appreciated this act in defense of his values. Ram ad is ultimate Neoliberal gesture. Everything and anyone is deployed in service to the market. https://t.co/1ZPvlR0dNW