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Co-Directors: @prisonculture @ClaudiaStellar / We work to end #VaWoC / Authors of How to Better Coverage of #SexualViolence + many other resources.
Chicago Abolitionists
Joined May 2010
For media covering the #Kavanaugh vote: Here is an important resource on best practices for covering stories around sexual violence. https://t.co/cWZAiaUY7a Need expert commentary or your staff trained? Email: chitaskforce@gmail.com #StopKavanagh #CancelKavanaugh #MeToo
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If you'll be covering the issue of race-based affirmative action in advance of the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions, you'll want to check out our new tip sheet. 6 tips for covering race-based affirmative action in college admissions:
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Photos from today's packing day! Thanks so much to all the volunteers who came out to pack books for incarcerated young folks in Illinois and to talk with us about why we don't believe anyone should be incarcerated. Want to support our work? Donate here: https://t.co/0DxWDz6JA1
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Metro is throwing a star-studded drag show fundraiser to fight anti-drag, transphobic laws in Tennessee and beyond. https://t.co/a3yxRpLBxX
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Get some of the deepest solutions journalism training possible, then go share it with others. Apply by April 23 to become a solutions journalism trainer. Get all the details here: https://t.co/C9qJPiERsU
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Check out our latest zine - The Prison Rebellion Years - an adaptation of Rethinking the American Prison Movement by @dnbrgr and @thetous. It was an all-star collaboration, written by @Safear215 with gorgeous cover art of comrade George by Paul Lacombe. https://t.co/eDUHQOKXr7
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📢 Chicago folks 📢 Free Thursday afternoon? Come join us as we package dates to send to our incarcerated kin for the remainder of Ramadan! This is a great opportunity to get involved in the last 10 days of #Ramadan! DM for address!
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Yikes, @FryeArtMuseum, what is this nonsense?!! The gender-neutral restrooms are temporarily discontinued while looking into "best practices"?!? Spoiler alert: the best practice is that all restrooms should be gender-neutral! That's it, that's all you need to know.
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ICYMI: I did a deep dive on the LAPD's abortion squad, which operated in the 1950s and 60s, before #RoeVWade Officers questioned women. They went on stakeouts and kept dossiers on hundreds of abortionists. They posed as boyfriends or brothers to trap people into confessing.
In our post-Roe world, questions loom as to the role police might play in enforcing new bans on abortion. To understand what that might look like, consider the LAPD's abortion squad, which interrogated women and arrested doctors for decades before Roe https://t.co/J8qfFcb1UF
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Free Society People’s Library?! Where can I sign-up to support this excellent initiative? Below 👇
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EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION: A federal judge in Texas ruled against medication abortion last night. We’re hitting the streets on April 15th and calling on the FDA to keep mifepristone on the shelves. Pledge to march at the link in the followup!
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