Jasmine Brown

Socialist running for Mayor of Pensacola, FL.
Pensacola for the people—not the developers!

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[Jasmine Brown @jasmineformayor]

This week, ICE murdered Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas. We are heartbroken and disgusted, but sadly we are not surprised. ICE has been invading our cities, killing our people, and getting away with it for too long.

All over the country, ordinary people have been heroically standing up to ICE over the last year and a half. Some have paid for that with their lives. Why are our political leaders doing nothing as masked federal agents murder in our streets?

Pensacola must end its agreements with ICE. We must end the FLOCK contract. We must do all we can to protect our people from this terror before it takes another life.

[Jasmine Brown @jasmineformayor]

So exciting to see the people power fueling the DSA victories across the country last night! This is more evidence of what we already know: people are refusing to settle for business as usual.

We are a people who have spent decades being lied to by our political leaders. We're tired of being locked out of power, while the wealthiest people on the planet get to run our world.

I'm excited to be a part of the movement for socialism—a movement that is about demanding a future for all of us. Voting or winning office will never be enough to save us. Locally—with the Bayou District contract, the Port Sally money, and the data center ban—we've seen what kind of power we have when we organize together and demand a future.

We can build a better Pensacola, and we can build a better world. But we only get what we're organized to take!

[Jasmine Brown @jasmineformayor]

Justice for Kohen Wiley!

Last Sunday in Senatobia, Mississippi, police shot into an occupied vehicle, callously murdering one-year-old Kohen Wiley. This disgusting tragedy began when Kohen's mother was accused of shoplifting a pack of diapers from Walmart.

Nobody, least of all a baby, should be murdered over diapers. In fact, diapers should be accessible to every family regardless of their ability to pay. In this case, Kohen's mother has now spoken out—she has a receipt for the diapers. This execution and the disgusting justifications by the state reflect a long pattern of racist police violence, which we have seen right here in our own city.

In 2009, Victor Steen—a teenager—was on his bike when he was brutally run down by Pensacola Police. There has been no justice for him. In 2019, Pensacola Police killed Tymar Crawford in front of his partner and children in broad daylight. To justify their crime, they demonized him, lied about him, and blamed him. Only through a mass people's movement did his family get any semblance of accountability from the city. We should all stand with the Senatobia community today as they organize for justice.

Nobody is above the law: jail killer cops! Justice for Kohen Wiley!

[Jasmine Brown @jasmineformayor]

Trump is threatening the people of Iran with genocide, saying "a whole civilization will die tonight" if he doesn't get his way.

The people of the U.S. are against this inhuman war! We are against the bombing of schools, the targeting of power plants and medical facilities and bridges that the people of Iran rely on to survive.

This illegal, genocidal, disgusting war is what happens when the billionaires who profit from war are given the power to wage it. We need a new system, where the needs of humanity are what drive our decisions—not the greed of war criminals!

[Jasmine Brown @jasmineformayor]

Mayor Reeves failed to get nearly $6 million of aid to low-income Pensacolans whose homes were damaged during Hurricane Sally. This is a perfect example of why our people have lost faith in City Hall.

The Mayor prides himself on going after grants and taking on large development projects, but when the working class residents of our City needed their homes repaired, his office dropped the ball.

I was proud to speak alongside other community members last night against the Mayor's attempt to funnel those funds into more work at the Port of Pensacola, and I applaud the City Council for not giving in to yet another last minute bait-and-switch from Mayor Reeves.

Our city has been ignoring the needs of working class people for too long. We are tired of the backroom-deals, the false promises, and the dismissal of ordinary people's needs.

It's time for the people of this city to be in the driver's seat. Let's keep showing up, let's keep getting organized, and let's build a movement to put the people in power in Pensacola!

[Jasmine Brown @jasmineformayor]

Last night, PPD arrested long-time community activist Mike Kimberl during a free meal-share in downtown Pensacola. Although this meal-share has been going on at the same place and time for 14 years, the officer attempted to shut it down. As the encounter was peacefully coming to an end, the officer demanded Mike produce identification and arrested him when he refused.

The people of Pensacola remember City Hall’s years-long effort to boost downtown property values by criminalizing the houseless. As the city carries forward with Mayor Reeves’s “Reimagine Palafox” plan, we have to ask: Why is the PPD arresting the director of the Alfred-Washburn center at a free meal-share frequented by the houseless the day after Thanksgiving, when our community is still reeling from SNAP cuts?

City Hall and the PPD should apologize and immediately cease their harassment of this beloved community activist and the Food Not Bombs meal-share.

[Jasmine Brown @jasmineformayor]

Florida Power and Light is at it again.

Three years after our community was hit with outrageous power bill hikes, state regulators have just approved another FPL plan to raise rates across the state. This is the largest utility rate hike in US history.

FPL is a for-profit company that has a total monopoly in our community. Every year, out-of-town FPL executives make millions of dollars while our people struggle to keep the lights on.

When FPL took over Gulf Power and hiked up our rates back in 2022, Pensacola's city leadership refused to listen to our concerns, reassuring us that rates would go down within four years. That was a lie.

We don't have to accept FPL's predatory rate hikes. Instead, our city can set the standard for this state. Let's build a movement to transition to publicly-owned, not-for-profit power to meet the people's needs!