🚨@CMRobertWhiteDC: Temperatures in cells at DC Jail are reaching over 104 degrees during the day. Also hearing that the last few deaths may have actually been heat related despite official reports. Both need to be addressed IMMEDIATELY!
This is a matter of Black life & death!
In 2023, Disability:IN gave "Best Place to Work" awards to 20 weapons and military-producing companies who profit from the genocide and disablement in Palestine and the Global South.
#DisabilityDivest
The United Nations Human Rights Council has called on Lockheed Martin to stop supplying arms to Israel or risk being complicit in violations of international civil and human rights laws.
They have been named a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion" by @DisabilityIN
genocide is a mass disabling event that Lockheed Martin is participating in—it’s absolutely despicable that @DisabilityIN honored Lockheed Martin and refuses to have solidarity with the disabled people of Palestine.
For the tenth year in a row, @LockheedMartin earned a 100 on the Disability Equality Index® and is recognized as one of "2024 Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion" #DisabilityInclusion#AreYouIN? #BestPlaceToWork24. Learn more on @DisabilityIN https://t.co/gMtLrvvbU8
Happy #Pride! At APBP, we're celebrating by uplifting some great work from and about members of the #LGBTQ+ community who have been impacted by mass incarceration.
What else would you add to our list? 🧵
New! Incarcerated journalist Kwaneta Harris writes on the rampant sexual violence in solitary confinement in Texas prisons
CW: Discussuons sexual abuse against adults and minors in the prison system. It also describes instances of suicide and self harm. https://t.co/woUkoKrau7
I think the final straw, the thing that really made me a prison abolitionist once and for all, was spending a summer working near and repeatedly running into the person who sexually assaulted me six years prior. 🧵
@stefkaufman tw sh. restrained lots of other times for refusing drugs, and for self harm. they never bothered to provide me support while i self harmed, but would put me in restraint afterwards as punishment and tell me that it was the only way i could receive wound care.
@stefkaufman I was restrained because the cops were the ones who brought me in, and it was hospital policy. i was barely moving and not present in my bodymind, but i was labeled as "dangerous." was not offered any care or support during or after the restraint.
"Surgeries on intersex children have been condemned by the UN, the @HRC and intersex activists around the world. However, in the U.S., the federal government has left it up to individual states to create their own laws on gender-affirming care."
https://t.co/Mir8I7ZQ7j
NEW from @megoconnor13: The ACLU is suing DC for sending cops to mental health crises, which it alleges violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2022, the city's Community Response Team handled less than 1% of mental health emergency calls to 911. https://t.co/zj0NOg9lV7
Former NJNP member was assaulted in jail by corrections officers and refused access to treatment by medical staff.
She needs assistance and resources to heal, seek justice, and feel safe again.
Bills that oppose gender and sex diversity target trans people–and also critically hit the 2% of people born intersex. Elliott breaks it down! #TransIntersexSolidarity
the Atlanta City Council meeting to deliberate and vote on Cop City funding is starting. It’s incredibly contentious already �� there are hundreds of people at City Hall still waiting to speak. They’re not being allowed to; sign up for comment is being cut off.
if you're just tuning in to what's going on in Atlanta, three organizers with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund -- the city's largest bail fund -- were arrested this morning at their homes. ASF provides jail support to ensure those in police custody have their rights protected 1/