I am a monthly donor to @C_Resistance. Police reformists, think critically and comprehensively about the funding needed to ADD new police resources vs. allocating those resources to healthcare and education—to empowering over punishing. This is what systemic change looks like.
Many reforms & strategies to fight policing are circulating right now, some are AMAZING like #DefundPolice; others, like #8cantwait, want to improve policing's war on us.
When in doubt, ask our chart questions, inspired by @prisonculture.
The goal is abolition. We fight to win.
“people deserve to feel safe in their own city” yes! obviously! and “people” includes those made to live perilous lives due to an ever diminishing safety net and increasingly open social derision and viciousness
I forgive myself for my past and know that through taking responsibility for my life, I give the younger version of myself a new future.
I am so proud of me for how far I've come.
So it makes sense right? 🧐 Our brains have a finite capacity to work every day, significantly shorter than our bodies 👌🏻 - but yet we still work hours similar to those in the industrial era. This is the crux of why we are so damn tired in work 💤(9/11)
Our bodies 🤸♀️ can undertake a longer period of stress and fatigue when compared to our brains 📚 - while physical work used to be repetitive, engaging in thinking and social tasks drains us a lot more ⬇️ - we have about 3.5 hours of productivity in our brains every day (8/11)
The use of fear to control children is so ubiquitous that most adults don’t even realise they are doing it. They’d never describe what they are doing that way. But in so many different ways, the children feel it. Here’s what it looks like. 1/