"Unstained" won at The Telly Awards! 🏆 Our powerful webseries addresses teen pregnancy & STIs among youth in New Mexico's justice system. The show is designed to reduce sexual & other risk behaviors among youth. Congratulations to all our dedicated collaborators. 🎉
Sexual health & knowledge of reproductive rights are life-saving tools everyone deserves.
This #GivingTuesday, you can help us reach more people with our life-changing work like this, altering the trajectory of young people's lives across the globe. https://t.co/bNtXzuFgMl
Our dear Albert Woodfox, with an unbreakable spirit, passed away today. We will remember you today and every day — our fiercest fighter and brightest light.
"There will be a huge hole in the sky tonight,” said his attorney George Kendall.
https://t.co/uGalhflkgY
Watch: 13 Moms who are exonerees, activists, and influencers speak out against Melissa Lucio’s April 27 Execution.
We have less than 5 days to stop Texas from executing
@innocence client Melissa for a crime that never occurred. #SaveMelissaLucio
We have 14 days to stop the execution of Melissa Lucio for a crime that never occurred. Here's how you can #SaveMelissaLucio:
1) Add your name to her petition https://t.co/YsbDEug4N2
2) If you live in Texas, contact @GregAbbott_TX: 956-446-2866
3) Retweet this.
Hours of testimony re: #MelissaLucio today. The original DA (now in federal prison) made choices that led to a death penalty conviction 5 jurors now say they were wrong about. DA Luis Saenz has a chance to right that wrong. Texas is watching. #txlege#CJReform CC: @leachfortexas
Alabama’s new gas chamber will be ready for executions within a few months. Yes, you read that right. Alabama wants to kill death row prisoners by suffocating them in a room filled with nitrogen gas. https://t.co/kciYyc6MFl
For 20 years and counting, the Guantánamo prison has been a global symbol of injustice, abuse, and disregard for the rule of law.
It’s past time to shut it down. https://t.co/0KSqu5IsZW
We stand in solidarity with the incarcerated ppl on a hunger strike at Rikers demanding access to basic services.
The same basics needs that men in the Attica rebellion died for men on Rikers Island are on a hunger strike for.
#RikersHungerStrike#IncarceratedLivesMatter
We’re honored to receive the 2022 #RealLeadersImpact Awards. Our work with communities to tell stories that meet people where they are, empower them, and inspire positive change for a sustainable world is an achievement that we’ll continue to build on in 2022.
@Real_Leaders
Today is the 20th anniversary of the opening of #GuantanamoBay prison, one of the oldest, most infamous relics of the #WarOnTerror, & an emblem of institutionalized Islamophobia. The following are key 2021 events related to Guantanamo.
1/2021: @Amnesty report + UN press release
October 2nd is the 8th Annual #WrongfulConvictionDay—a day to raise awareness of the causes and remedies of wrongful conviction and to recognize the impacts on innocent people and their families. This year’s theme is #TheFightContinues. Learn more: https://t.co/FtsNfVu5MV
Good news: African countries have taken important steps in recent years to protect the right to education of pregnant students and adolescent mothers.
New research:
https://t.co/gvrdzZWjQh
The #RallyForAbortionJustice is less than a week away. Here's what to bring and not to bring ⬇️
It's still not too late to find and attend an action near you: https://t.co/lfyDl8RMLj
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block Texas’ radical new 6-week abortion ban, SB8. The law now takes effect.
Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.
People in jail pre-trial are not yet convicted of a crime and are presumed innocent. But the longer they are detained, the more likely they are to plead guilty and accept a deal, even when they're innocent. https://t.co/VCrb6flhlB
Civil rights activist and journalist Ida B Wells was born on this day 159 years ago. Today, her great grandson wrote about how we can carry on her legacy of by supporting #PervisPayne's fight for justice. https://t.co/i2cKqfZXby
Wrongful convictions are often the result of several systemic flaws, mistakes, and other factors coming together — not just one issue. https://t.co/9qVlKvWFjL