BREAKING: The NY State Parole Board has granted release to David Gilbert, an incarcerated elder who has spent decades in prison transforming his life and the lives of countless others. We support this decision.
A statement from our Director @hamzasaldana614:
To our daughters:
You are powerful.
You are limitless.
You belong at every single table where decisions are being made.
I stand proudly with my sister @RepAOC to affirm that we belong in the halls of power & will not be intimidated.
Yes! Misogyny should be viewed as both a continuum and a pyramid. We should not tolerate any form of misogyny and support one another is challenging it!
We need to recognize that violence against women is a continuum. Vile, degrading language is on 1 end & battering, rape & murder are on the other. There are countless varieties of misogyny in between. @AOC's statement is a profile in courage. @Ilhan@AyannaPressley@RashidaTlaib
Today our office reduced the sentence of the last person on death row out of SF to a life sentence.
Honored by the words of Sister Helen Prejean: “Hooray for DA Boudin's LIFE over death choice once again for the last condemned human being on San Francisco's death row."
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Hours before Trump's event, protesters blocked a road leading to Mt. Rushmore. Native Americans were protesting that South Dakota's Black Hills were taken from the Lakota people against treaty agreements and chanted "Land back!" https://t.co/yCnuJhhd05
That’s the thing about Mount Rushmore. It doesn’t even belong to the United States. It’s Lakota land. Your opinion on the monument is inconsequential unless you’re supporting #landback.
@ProfJasmine Dear Jasmine,
I haven't written before but want to add my voice and let you know that we have a college-wide conversation about race this coming Tuesday and colleagues are reading your article as a starting point! You deserve all the positive feedback for the brilliant article!
"If you or I, Allie, were to push someone from behind with enough force that they fell into the street -- especially in front of oncoming traffic -- we would be investigated for a crime. No question about it. And a sheriff's captain is no different. They're not above the law"
Not often you see Anderson Cooper shed a tear on air. Leave it to Cornell West to eloquently and emotionally get to the heart of what's happening. This was powerful!
Those arguing that bringing down a statue of a slave owner is 'wrong because it's illegal' would have been up there arguing slavery itself was 'right because it's legal' back in the day.
#ColstonHasFallen
This week, we
✅Refused to prosecute peaceful protest
✅Called on state bar to ban DAs from taking police union $
✅Made resolution to ban hiring police w/ misconduct history
✅Hired new attny overseeing police misconduct
✅New policy preventing false charges of resisting arrest