In 2018, Floridians overwhelmingly voted to re-enfranchise felons. The outrageous poll tax passed in response to that referendum is racist voter suppression at its worst. Voting is a right, not a privilege. These attacks on Americans’ constitutional rights have got to end.
People across Belarus are fed up with Lukashenko regime brutality and repression. "The human capacity for patience and endurance, in the face of blatant injustice, is not without limits." (🗒️ @HannaLiubakova) #FreeBelarus
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A Black high school sophomore is currently incarcerated in a Michigan juvenile detention center on the alleged probation violation of ... wait for it ... not completing all of her online schoolwork during #COVID19 pandemic https://t.co/LmjXZV4Gvh
Iran must stop the death sentences of protesters—Amirhossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi & Mohammad Rajabi the defendants have had restricted access to lawyers and the authorities tortured or abused them to produce coerced confessions. #اعدام_نکنید https://t.co/ic6MEIPs4F
The U.S. @ICEgov has been spreading #COVID19 domestically and internationally an investigation reveals.
It has deported up to 40,000 people over the last 4 months and allowed an environment for the virus to spread within concentration camps. #AbolishICE https://t.co/c7LkppQKiN
Politicians and the corporate media won't discuss it much but over the past 30 years the wealth of the top 1% has gone up by $22.65 trillion, while the wealth of the bottom 50% has gone down by $776 billion. This growing wealth inequality is a moral obscenity.
Let’s not forget LaVena Johnson. She was found dead in her tent in Iraq in 2005. She had a broken nose, loose teeth, burns from chemicals on her private areas to cover evidence of rape, black eye and a gunshot wound. The goverment ruled her death as a “suicide”. She was only 19💔
Tulsa police arresting people for wearing 'I can't breathe t-shirts'; she had a paid ticket for the rally, was sitting alone, and was accused of trespassing.