THREAD: It is with sadness that I tell you about Preston Chaney, who died in the Houston jail of COVID. He was trapped there for 3.5 months because he couldn't pay $100 after being accused of stealing lawn equipment and frozen meat. His story is important. (1)
NEW: Amazon workers are exposing what's happening in Alabama.
They say Amazon is forcing them into anti-union meetings, texting them up to 5x daily, putting messages in bathrooms, even changing traffic light patterns to harm union organizing.
Join us next week for a book talk with @CathFlowers. As the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, Flowers will share her inspiring story of advocacy, from childhood to environmental justice champion.
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Let’s make this clear: “Abolition is about presence, not absence. It’s about building life-affirming institutions” - Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Abolition is about investing in each other and our right to joy.
Our purpose with this townhall was to push for transparency and inclusion in the conversations we’ve been having with administration for months. Our goals are the same: disclose, divest, disband.