Indira ✨ Des Moines' Ward 1 Representative ✨
@Indira4DSM
Followers
3K
Following
2K
Media
259
Statuses
3K
Des Moines City Council Member for Ward 1 • she/her • #AllPowerToThePeople ✊🏽 • DONATE: https://t.co/cWtJjwtQ9I
Des Moines, IA
Joined January 2021
There is no world where justice is achieved under a governmental system that was passed down from colonialism, genocide, and slavery. We are organizing a new system in Des Moines. Of the people, for the people. Support us in making this vision a reality. https://t.co/yC94z71Sy4
secure.actblue.com
You can too!
10
4
31
Do you want mass transit in Des Moines?
4
3
12
🚨 PRESIDENTAL ALERT: The girls are fighting 🚨
8
0
9
This was me! I'm a transgender public school employee. Taking care of & looking after students is my job. These bills targeting queer youth will harm children - queer children, trans children, cisgender children, children who haven't figured it out yet - & adults.
There were plenty of cops at the Mom's for Liberty meeting making sure protestors didn't have a chance to be heard.
13
98
654
All I’ll say is that those who call for peace from protesters before they call for peace from the police aren’t invested in ending police murders. Ending police killings is not a matter of protesting properly, but a matter of ending the police state.
57
3K
13K
What it does mean is resources for those who are needing, freedom of movement and assistance out of bad situations, community self-defence and self-regulation, universal basic needs like housing and food, life-centered emergency response, and an end to racism and oppression
1
1
9
Because to me it doesn't mean a paramilitary force authorized to use violence everyday, it doesn't mean a system which kills black and brown and disabled and trans people at staggering rates, it doesn't mean trauma and captivity and helplessness in the face of violence
3
2
19
Two students were shot & killed in Des Moines Monday at "Starts Right Here", a youth outreach center. 16-year-old Rashad Carr was one of the victims. His grandmother is refuting Des Moines police's claims the shooting was a result of a gang feud & the victims were gang members.
8
89
271
Either we abolish or we don’t. No politician statement, no non-profit statement, nor calls for reform or accountability will matter today, yesterday, or tomorrow. We either abolish or we don’t. There is nothing else to talk about.
15
1K
5K
A message that seems to need to repeating again and again
92
13K
61K
all of the reforms failed at the same damn time - black cops, body cameras, multiple cops on the scene, tasers instead of guns- so how is more reform the answer? #Blacker cops? Even non-deadlier non deadly weapons? ten cops instead of five? HD body cameras? harder convictions?
110
4K
14K
Happy Saturday, everyone. I'm reflecting on this question today: What does public safety mean to you? ⬇️⬇️⬇️reply below⬇️⬇️⬇️
8
4
13
Diversifying the police force doesn’t end racism because racism is inherent to the organization of the institution & its daily operation. Racism is what policing is
1K
8K
33K
Biden and Trump are in agreement here on everything but the details and it’s obscene
"Do not just show up at the border," Biden says to migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. "Stay where you are and apply legally from there," he adds. Migrants must get someone in the US to tell the government they will financially support them for 2 yrs to enter the US.
0
7
22
Afgan refugees weren't treated this way
Biden told asylum seekers: "Do not just show up at the border." People can usually claim asylum no matter how they cross the border. Trump gutted that with Title 42: ▪️ Uses COVID to deny basic processing ▪️ SCOTUS has so far kept it in place ▪️ Biden has used it 2 million times
0
0
5
Police killed more people in America in 2022 than any other year on record. At least 1,176 people were killed by police nationwide - 3.2 killings per day. https://t.co/0VQVssR82S
1K
11K
24K
The January Bonus Category for our 2023 Reading Challenge is a debut novel by a famous or established author! Think of Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Lauren Groff, James Patterson, etc and read their first book! https://t.co/Zo6YSQi2k1
1
3
6
Happy New Year, let's love each other a little harder this year 🫰🏽
1
5
39
📝Sign-Ups to speak at the January 9, 2023 DSM Council Regular Meeting are now open. The signup for this meeting is open until January 3, 2023 at 5pm. https://t.co/gROtlMwGGN
0
5
0
Shoutout to @jaylencavil @NukeBisquik @ChismVargas @iamyenab @toughbabyboy @CallananAdam @Awkward_Orange @rjshuey and many more for being my life raft when it gets hard
3
0
28