BREAKING: We’re suing the District of Columbia on behalf of our client Bread for the City over the District’s practice of sending police officers rather than mental health providers to respond to mental health emergencies.
Sub-freezing February night, an unhoused 23 yo Black man entered an empty house slated for demolition and made a fire out of trash to stay warm. The police jailed him for Burglary. The City charged him with Criminal Trespass 1 and Reckless Burning. #DecriminalizePoverty
When is slavery acceptable? NEVER.
I know you agree @RepVeasey@JohnCornyn@SenTedCruz. Support the reintroduction of the Abolition Amendment to #EndTheException in the 13th Amendment and abolish slavery, for all.
No slavery. No Exceptions. https://t.co/IDzcY3jQq4
"We are sick of symbolic changes that leave policing’s core functions & daily impacts untouched. Calls for police reform misapprehend the central purpose of police, which inevitably dooms them to failure."
Read @prisonculture & @dreanyc123#NoMorePolice: https://t.co/CUIkmiah24
@MrAhmednurAli ���True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which transform the world.” Freire
Day 10 of our strike. Here are some wild policies @mcclatchy has proposed:
1) Parental Leave: the company insists people should have less paid leave depending on how they gave birth. Meaning staff would have to tell the company whether they gave birth vaginally or via c-section
County Judge Glen Whitley said commissioners would vote today on a contract for someone to review Robert Miller’s autopsy.
This is in direct response to my reporting and I’m livid I’m not covering it because @mcclatchy doesn’t care about local news.
https://t.co/mSDOSCkEuD
A teacher in Texas is on administrative leave after telling students “deep down in my heart, I am ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the superior one”
https://t.co/gBPu96uYB4
I’m all for solving problems, but these policing bills give a blank check to law enforcement without accountability. I know midterms are coming, but we can do this differently and be bold and courageous about how we address public safety.
ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 On Labor Day, we are launching #ExceptForMe, a 13-day activation series to raise awareness about the exception in the 13th Amendment that still allows slavery as punishment for crime.
Learn more and take action to #EndTheException at https://t.co/Q0g4JYErj3.