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Nuyorican. Mom. Activist. Dancer. Tree hugger. Abolitionist. Camping enthusiast. Formerly incarcerated.

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Rent is coming soon. Please consider supporting anyone on this list. Everyone on the path of political prosecution from the #ATLpol needs help. #StopCopCity
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The RICO charges will not stick, but I still need to pay rent, electricity, & food. I do not know if my charges have affected my hireability, but this is one of the longest stretches I have been w/out a job. Please consider a tshirt to help me & the kid
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. @Slate Oh that's not sexist or homophobic at all, please, tell us more.
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According to the state of Georgia, I am both Black and a RICO defendant. #StopCopCity
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@karajmcdowell My sister-in-law is skipping virtual kindergarten with my niece, instead, they are gonna raise chickens. A year of pandemic schooling will be lost, in favor of life.
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Today in capitalism.
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This is not what freedom looks like.
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I just testified at @NYCCouncil on the misdirection and misleading COVID numbers presented on
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I'm unsure when my #StopCopCity comrades & I are due in Atlanta to be mugshot & rearrested on RICO charges, but last-minute flights & lodging are not cheap. Please consider buying a t-shirt, or dropping some coin in my @Venmo ( @priscillagrim ) to help out w/travel & food. 🙏🙏
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The RICO charges will not stick, but I still need to pay rent, electricity, & food. I do not know if my charges have affected my hireability, but this is one of the longest stretches I have been w/out a job. Please consider a tshirt to help me & the kid
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Proud to be a part of another story to illustrate why jails, incarceration, and cop cities are not the answer.
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This mom is one of 61 "Cop City" activists accused of terrorism and the same RICO charges Trump is facing in Georgia. In @EVYSTADIUM 's exclusive interview, Priscilla Grim talks being jailed for protest, and why America's "freedom of speech" is only afforded to some.
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When I returned from Dekalb County Jail, I wanted to let the world know how horrific conditions inside were for the most vulnerable people. Many have read the piece I wrote for @scalawagmag . It was written a few days after returning home to Brooklyn.
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@PriscillaGrim
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@alphatrends They likely don't appreciate you posting this online.
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Here in the Bronx w/over a thousand people to #FeelTheBern #BronxBerning #FightForFamilies #SinglePayer
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I designed all the t-shirts, which reflect my post-incarceration brain recovery. I made this one from a slogan I wrote on paper that I stuck to my cell door, facing outward, after someone attempted to unalive herself.
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I’m looking for an illustrator - tag yr talented friends for a paid gig.
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"We need to stop fearing the power of @TheDemocrats & see them for what they are, weak." @clenchner #LeftForum2016 #LeftForum
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@spencerbeswick Comrade, your efforts did not fail. Your work shifted engagement in ways so profoundly powerful that the state is inventing new ways to squash dissent.
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Community control of police is not a new idea, but one that makes sense. (Poster from 1970s, Berkeley, CA)
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The last design I'm proudest of as it honors the moral center and the pace of the #StopCopCity movement. Tortugita was a believer in nonviolence, as is reflected in this interview.
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@BenjaminPDixon Fully examining my health with a doctor, so I can make a plan to stay in the best shape possible and be the best aging matriarch possible for my daughter and her future.
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@PriscillaGrim
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. @FoxNews isn't publishing the #StopCopCity #ATL61 mugshots because many of us were smiling or grinning. We looked so unbothered that the milkshake fascist made the observation part of his blog title about us. The people of Atlanta will win.
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Black Panthers, Boricua Independistas, and other fierce freedom fighters faced RICO charges, thrived & survived, as I and my #StopCopCity comrades will, no matter the outcome.
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You may be bored of #COVID ー19 but #COVID19 is not bored of you. #maskingforafriend
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#NoNewJails because we need restorative justice in #NYC . follow @nonewjails_nyc , a new day is here, with new possibilities.
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@PriscillaGrim
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I ask you to use your power to do the following: 1 - Fix this dashboard to reflect the actual reality of COVID in NYC 2 - Reinstate the mask mandate in public transit and all public indoor spaces 3 - Use city resources to provide free N95 masks to the public.
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The second t-shirt I designed reflects two of my obsessions, #graffitti & #love , essential ingredients to the most beautiful society, in my mind. It's also simple and almost an exercise in design. I forced myself to make things to practice my skills.
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@errollouis @HeyNell Loaded guns were pointed at an entire train car of people. We have every right to be upset and demand dismantling an institution doing nothing at the moment but criminalizing poverty and used as gatekeepers to needed resources.
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As horrifying as it seems, as my memories have returned through therapy, what I wrote was tame.
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In the #StopCopCity movement, we will win a new reality for the people of Atlanta, and the people of the United States, who are the most caged, brutalized, policed, and surveilled people in the world. We will win because we are grounded in love for all in the natural world.
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It’s true though.
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"We need candidates who will tell us the truth as the empire melts down." @CornelWest #Convergence2017
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"Look at where are we strong enough to take over @TheDemocrats & decenter the party." @clenchner #LeftForum #LeftForum2016
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In visiting the page from week to week over the past few months, I noticed two things: 1 - Historical data, week over week, month over month, is not present. 2 - The numbers I remembered seeing the week prior did not match the descriptions of “decreasing” or “stable.”
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@PriscillaGrim
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In the following presentation, I will show you these examples from screenshots I have taken since September.
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@PriscillaGrim
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Like when you voted to approve Mr. Carson as housing secretary? 😂😂😂😂
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On #HolocaustRemembranceDay , we remember what can happen when hatred & fear turns neighbor against neighbor. When we abandon those in need.
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I walked into a work meeting, and one of my teammates is wearing a #StopCopCity t-shirt. I'm crying in happiness.
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IMHO - if unions adopted worker ownership as a part of their organizing efforts - the labor movement would transform. #Convergence2017
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The time I was incarcerated was the longest I have been offline since the 90s. It was the worst digital fast. Zero stars, do not recommend. Even with access to the jail ipads of @SecurusTech , I could not research or use the word processing tools of the web.
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I'm in Atlanta as I was threatened w/reincarceration if I did not show up to be processed at Fulton County Jail for the RICO charge. I have been here since Thursday, waiting. To fill my time, I have been walking around #PiedmontPark , petting all the dogs & talking #StopCopCity
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"What was the single obstacle to single payer health care in California? The Democrats." @cmkshama #Convergence2017
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Related, in the children's story of the turtle and the hare, the turtle stays the course and continues to move along, as the hare wastes time and mocks the pace of the turtle.
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The reporting tool does not reflect this reality and is dangerous, intentionally misleading the public on the risk of becoming sick, again, from preventable pandemic exposure.
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Boricua life on the mainland is an unusual existence. I love the island because there, I am just me. No one ever tries to classify me or put me in a box. I'm only shamed for my terrible Spanish, which I accept.
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We were held, 18 of us, in a 7 by 20 foot room, without access to water, food, a clock, or a phone.
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On slide 3, you will see that the daily average of deaths, at 8, is marked as “decreasing” from the week prior, which is incorrect, as the week prior daily average of deaths was 5.
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In NYC, I am told I am white, to which I always respond, news to me, the first half of my life, in the South, I was always classified as, and called the same racial slurs, as my Black comrades. Now I have proof.
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All of our grievances are connected. #Convergence2017 resource from the #socialmedia panel
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Thank you for giving me time today. I am a digital strategist, a concerned New Yorker, and a mom.
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I am here today because I have been following the COVID 19 data page on to inform myself and my household about the levels of risk of COVID infection in day-to-day life.
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@PriscillaGrim
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There should be less people who manage and more people who do.
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"We need public ownership of resources." @cmkshama #Convergence2017
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It was a total reset for my creative brain, trained for almost 30 years on computers.
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We are all living in Cop Cities and for the love of all living things, the ideology of "throw people in cages" must be stopped.
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1/ The NYPD has ramped up criminal enforcement of low level quality-of-life violations such as public urination and drinking under Adams, despite a law that categorizes these as civil offenses. Of tickets where race was noted, more than 90% went to Black and Hispanic people 🧵
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I just spoke with the owner of @GranProspecHall , and he has, just a few hours ago, broken the contract for the NRA event, originally slated for April. He said to me, "We are about smiles. We do not want our neighbors to be upset." <3 #MarchForOurLives
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On slide 10, you will see that the hospitalizations are at 87, and on slide 11, the data from this week, we have 94 hospitalizations, yet the data is quantified as “decreasing.”
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On slide 9, you will see that the percent positive is 10.2, an increase from the week prior of 9.4, yet quantified as “stable.”
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These three simple asks will help us work together to prevent further pandemic illness, prioritize public safety, and protect the most vulnerable of New York City with a culture of care grounded in the data of scientific observation.
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#WeAreTwitter which is why we want to #BuyTwitter & create a cooperative environment to reward & work for everyone.
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BREAKING: workers in 2nd largest U.S. news co. call out @AldenCapital 4 pillaging 200+ newspapers to enrich a privileged few #AldenExposed
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Aleppo, before and after the darkest actions of humanity.
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According to the city-reported data, since September 2022, we have had a 28% increase in the cases of COVID in NYC.
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@PriscillaGrim
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I want to go on record as one ready to testify to the cruelty of Dekalb County Jail. Because the ancestor Zora Neale Hurston wrote, “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” 🧵
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You may call it "Intermittent Fasting" but I call it "two days before payday" 😐 #99percent
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Get your copy at #WashingtonSquarePark !
@StoneSculptorJN
Jay Nelson 🍁
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#Occupy Activists Launch 'Battle of New York' to Counter Media Bias about Sanders #BattleOfNewYork
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It is time to put people at the center of economics instead of surrounding the dismal science of economics with people. #NextSystem
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@kthalps I nominate @emilyslist for the crown of "Queen of #TheAssistance "
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Comrade Morgan, showing off his #StopCopCity t-shirt! Get yours now & help me beat the Southern-fried fascism of GA. T-shirt sales are helping me travel and pay for living expenses while I work to beat these ludicrous charges. GRACIAS comrades!
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I just received this message on IG from a podcage comrade. I'm crying. If I disappear, know I was kidnapped by the state of Georgia.
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Staten Islanders with masks drive out non-mask wearing person in grocery store. #Coronavirus
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@rosariodawson would you consider contributing to #TheBattleOfNewYork by @OccupyWallStNYC ?
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@TheIndypendent
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9 days left: Operation Battle of New York is taking on corporate establishment. @Salon
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#LetsMakeTodayBetterBy agreeing that "fresh content brings fresh audiences". RT if you agree. #contentmarketing #SocialMediaMarketing
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I will vote yes to a NYS Constitutional Convention because we need a digital bill of rights.
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Another way to build a mass movement is to make sure that we have true solidarity amongst the working class. #Convergence2017
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Nearly 5K people died as a result of colonization & global warming via #HurricaneMaria . End the Jones Act, decolonize, & follow #OurPowerPR & #OurPowerPRNYC , demanding a #justtransition 2 self-determination. Photo - Maribel Franco. #LeftForum2018
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How to create a mass movement? A great question posed at the media panel at #Convergence2017
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"All the resources are in the hands of a few oil bosses. You and I have no say in what happens there." @cmkshama #Convergence2017
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If you are in New York and need hand sanitizer, hit up the heroes of @KingsCoWhiskey and consider putting this notice up in your apartment building to help keep your neighbors safe during the #CoronavirusPandemic .
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You are shocked that people buy new computers, instead of just buying parts. #BeingXennial
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Make note, @AECOM , contracted to build the local miniRikeri, is very much part of @REBNY , who stand to gain $$$$$ from @NYCMayor ’s plan with retail on the first floors. All pieces connected by billionaire & firm 1% member, Warden Daniel Tishman. #CLOSErikers with #NoNewJails .
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"You can fight & win without taking corporate cash" @cmkshama #Convergence2017
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Make way for a #BasicIncome in the heart of global capitalism. #WhatsNextNYC #NextSystem
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"There has been a decades-long practice of deal-making w/management. We need to fight back from every sector." @cmkshama #Convergence2017
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. @JumaaneWilliams "Capitalism is the best pyramid scheme I've ever seen." #LeftForum2018
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@prisonculture Patience to my daughter - so she can live her life in a calmer way than what she has seen from me.
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"We have won the battle of ideas like @BernieSanders says" @nick_brana #Convergence2017
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Vote Yes for a New York State Constitutional Convention & fight for all workers, everywhere. #1u
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Why is all risk pushed onto workers, as in @Uber & @Airbnb , while all profit goes to 1%? #PuertoRico #BoricuaUnity
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I have nothing to lose but my chains of $176k and rising of student loan fee-driven debt.
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We need to invest in people - not jails. $11b to fully fund @NYCHA and care for our brothers & sisters is what we need. #CLOSErikers with #NoNewJails
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