BREAKING: As AIPAC lobbyists take to Capitol Hill to tell Congress to support Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, JVP Action members occupied the office of Rep Hakeem Jeffries, once of the largest recipients of AIPAC funding, telling him to #RejectAIPAC
If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control
In a solo concurring opinion, Thomas says the court should reconsider rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.
Abortion, which is lifesaving in cases of miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, etc, will now be illegal in many states & even criminal in some & women will die as a result of this decision. So don't tell me you're pro-life.
Gonna be very weird if Supreme Court ends a constitutional right to obtain an abortion next week, saying it should be left to the States to decide, right after it just imposed a constitutional right to concealed carry of firearms, saying it cannot be left to the States to decide
Colombia just elected its first leftist President in the country’s history.
Chile just drafted a constitution that establishes a national health service and free education at every level.
Ecuadorians are mobilizing in the thousands to prevent privatizations.
This is hope.
This year everyone's attention has been focused on Congress passing major climate legislation. But at the same time, state legislatures and Governors have quietly passed new climate and clean energy efforts across the country. Long thread of the wins you may have missed in 2022:
NEW: A South Florida synagogue has sued over Florida's 15-week abortion ban, contending the measure violates religious-freedom rights. “In Jewish law, abortion is required if necessary to protect the health, mental or physical well-being of the woman."
I am so fucking sorry to my friends, peers, and their families who will feel the devastation and frustration of this Texas shooting and also have to witness mass public outrage and outcry and swift policy action (🤞) that emerges from this event that the Buffalo massacre didn’t.
Nor the many, many other cases of murderous gun violence against Black communities.
#BLACKLIVESMATTER
Gun violence is scary for everyone and is also, always and importantly, a tool of oppression, white supremacy, hate, and cultural violence.