elly kalfus

Personal organizer, improviser, oral historian. Retweets do not mean I read the article. #BlackLivesMatter #Abolition #FreeThemAll

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Procrastinate' literally means “having been put forward til tomorrow.”

‘pro’ (“forward”) + ‘crastinus’ (“of tomorrow”)

We meant to post this weeks ago...

[DemocracyBehindBarsMA @dbbc_ma]

This is what #GettingOutTheVote looks like in Boston jail 3 weeks before Election Day.

We will keep coming back every week, leading civic engagement reflection circles, signing people up to vote by mail and supporting their access to #democracy.

[DemocracyBehindBarsMA @dbbc_ma]

This is what #GettingOutTheVote looks like in #Boston Jail one week after the MA Primary.

We will keep coming back every week leading up to #ElectionDay #Right2Vote.

Join us in person or remote - https://t.co/QfuEI5C5S8

[DemocracyBehindBarsMA @dbbc_ma]

“Education is something that we constantly have to do, because people just are not aware.”

The VOTES Act requires that the officer in charge publish procedures that govern the facilitation of voting for eligible voters in the facility. https://t.co/Wh3ruWHzVE

[DemocracyBehindBarsMA @dbbc_ma]

This is what Getting Out the Vote in Boston jail and house of correction looks like!

We can't bring cameras inside, so this is the closest we can bring to you – from the Lobby Ballot Box. Join us! https://t.co/rRLzJz9XrI

#mapoli #Right2Vote #EmpoweringDescendantCommunities

[elly kalfus @ekalify]

I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Take Acion: We Need to Dedicated Funding for No Cost Calls MA . Write one here: https://t.co/b1EkdM8lUf

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is journalist Priscilla Villarreal. A few years back, police in TX arrested her—because her work is often critical of them.

Last week, a federal court said those cops didn't necessarily violate her rights. Everyone got qualified immunity.

That should concern you. A thread.

[Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi]

Our students & faculty should be resting. Instead we’re in court today, because UChicago—the supposed champion of free speech—decided to criminally charge 26 students and 2 faculty for attending a peaceful sit in.

[stefanie @stefkaufman]

I feel sorry for everyone who is so deeply unimaginative that you truly believe psychiatric incarceration (AKA involuntary psychiatric “treatment”) is the best we can do for people in crisis.

[elly kalfus @ekalify]

@SarahSquirm hey are you coming out after the show? me and 3 others on waiting on this sidewalk and it's starting to turn into a club

[Christy Thornton @llchristyll]

The most brutal part of the APSA statement is the total failure to recognize that hotel workers are KEY to academia. Conferences, campus visits, invited talks - these all require hotel workers, rely on their totally unseen labor. These workers - & others! - are key to our labor.

[elly kalfus @ekalify]

@sahaley oh i need to read this

[sarah haley @sahaley]

Spent several weeks of US Carceral history class last semester giving lectures that hopefully debunked the asylum ➡️ prison explanation (Liat Ben moshe’s work is so critical btw). Taught history of the mental patients’ rights movement. & here comes one of a decorated historian

[Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy]

we’ve got nearly $70 million in public money to destroy trees and build Cop City but no money to keep pools open in the hottest month of the year?! k

[Reform & Rebuild @Reform_Rebuild]

HMP Bristol has been issued an urgent notification, as it continues to be a prison with chronic and intractable problems. 7 prisoners have taken their own lives in the last 10 months. Most prisoners are locked up for almost 22 hours a day, and it is very easy to access drugs.

[Anti-Racist South |🇵🇸 #FreePalestine @antiracistsouth]

*narrator* : “The new domestic violence court will not, in fact, tackle record abuse in New Orleans.”

Cops, courts and cages do not prevent domestic violence. Police engage in intimate partner violence at a far higher rate than the general public.

[INQUEST @INQUEST_ORG]

⚠️BREAKING⚠️

A coroner has concluded the death of an 18-year-old Black woman’s full-term baby in a prison cell in Surrey was contributed to by serious operational and systemic failings.

🧵on the conclusions of the inquest into baby Aisha Cleary's death to follow⬇️

[Anti-Racist South |🇵🇸 #FreePalestine @antiracistsouth]

Atlanta Police LITERALLY surveilling a referendum petition drive— what isn’t clicking for folks? This is chilling af.

Cops are not the caretakers of democracy they are the hired hunters of capital. WAKE TF UP and stop buying into all the copaganda.

Abolish APD! #StopCopCity