Dream Defenders
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Young, powerful Black & Brown people organizing toward a new vision for safety and good lives for all. Let’s shape the future TOGETHER 🖤✊🏾 #freedompapers
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DOWNLOAD NOW: We just dropped a Black and Palestinian Solidarity Toolkit for our kinfolk tryna throw down for a
#CEASEFIRENOW
and a
#FREEPALESTINE
locally. 🔗🇵🇸✊🏾
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Beyoncés dancers in black berets at
#SB50
paying homage to the Black Panthers 50 years after their
#formation
in '66
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BREAKING: Miami teens participating in annual
#BikesUpGunsDown
event assaulted and threatened with a gun in the Brickell Avenue area of Miami today. Captured by one of our members.
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Update: we are entering hour 7 of our people's occupation of
@GovRonDeSantis
's office. Dozens of capitol police just gathered and are preparing for arrest.
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“The people have control of this area.” - MSNBC a few minutes ago about Minneapolis.
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Happy 25th birthday, Trayvon. We started because you were taken from us and everything we do is to create a world where no one has to feel that pain again. Sending you love from the ground up.
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We got Amendment 4! Grassroots organizing, knocking on doors, talking to our friends, families and neighbors made this happen. 1.4 million people caught up in the criminal justice system just got the ability to vote.
#YESON4
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The police killed a UPS driver yesterday. A bystander was killed because the police decided it was a good idea to stop a chase in a busy intersection during rush hour traffic. No hostage negotiation, just a spray of bullets because property was more important.
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Happy 24th birthday Trayvon. We march with you in our hearts forever.
#HoodiesUp
#SayHisName
#WeAreTrayvon
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Facts.
"Don't lose track of those young black voters. Those young black voters see something in Bernie that they're excited about, and they don't see it in Biden"
-
@VanJones68
, getting to the heart of our generational divide
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Our folks choose
@BernieSanders
and the movement of everyday people with him for President. Read the full statement at .
#DDforBernie
#2020Vision
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Congratulations to our co-founder and former director
@iPhilSomething
🔥🔥🔥🔥
#DDforBernie
Big news for the Sanders campaign and the state of Florida: Phillip Agnew, a former surrogate and co-founder of the Dream Defenders, has been promoted to Senior Advisor.
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😭 we love you
@iPhilSomething
!
I can't be in Iowa tonight. But
@iPhilSomething
just showed Iowa City the power of fighting for someone you don't know.
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Police can’t be any more clear right now that they are the enemy of progress, of change, of the people. And if you have any trepidations about that, look up every movement ever. Civil rights, labor, take your pick. They stood against it. Don’t let these kneeling stunts fool you.
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Pete Buttigieg is playing games. He said Black Lives Matter yesterday and is trying to make the votes of people of color count less today.
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This is abhorrent. We can't wait to get your ass out of office.
If you go to a shelter for
#Irma
and you have a warrant, we'll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail
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We were birthed out of the rage of Trayvon Martin’s murder and 8 years later, we’re still watching our people be brutally murdered. Fight for accountability but also for a world where a our lives aren’t at risk because we’re Black. Rest in love Maud and Sean. 💔
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We want to take this moment to honor our collective anger and give material solidarity to folks in Minneapolis. Below are some calls to action:
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NEW: We just teamed up with
@sunrisemvmt
@CPDAction
@MaketheRoadAct
@DemSocialists
@PPlsAction
@OurRevolution
@StudentActionUS
&
@pdamericaAnd
to get 1.4 MILLION Black, Brown and working class voters out 4 Bernie during the primaries!
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Us: young Black and Brown organizers trying to make the world less shitty
Pete Buttigieg:
But here’s the reality: With Michael Bloomberg in the race, and with nine dark money groups supporting Bernie Sanders, the goal posts have changed.
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Florida Governor
@RonDeSantisFL
really said he won’t move the primary like many other states have because “they voted during the civil war.” They being white people and landowners. The transparency, it reeks.
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13 cops
1 unarmed black man
1 unarmed black woman
1 car
137 shots fired
1 not guilty verdict
0 justice
#BreloVerdict
http://t.co/dIcaEovFjN
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Billionaires claiming ownership over grassroots organizations is why the people need to be funding organizations. Donate to the orgs doing work around you. This is gross.
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To good and necessary trouble. Rest In Peace to John Lewis.
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695k Floridians have gotten COVID. We have some of the highest death rates in the country. This man is a killer.
BREAKING: Gov. DeSantis announces he's lifting all COVID-19 restrictions on Florida restaurants. They are now fully open. Read:
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Hey,
@OrlandoMagic
.Sheriff John Mina shot and killed a Black teen, and data shows that the Orlando Police Department was one of the most violent in the nation during his tenure as chief.
This afternoon the players will have a team Zoom call with Orange County (Fla.) Sheriff John Mina to discuss policing in our community.
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Ms. Vanessa is the second mom we've been able to bail out today. She's got a 2 year old little girl at home.
#freeblackmamas
#endmoneybail
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BREAKING: Houseless people in Downtown Miami being evicted RIGHT NOW by Miami Police. A sign was put up last night that says "Tresspassing is a crime," and now people who have lived here for years have been given 30 minutes to leave. Disgusting to do this during a pandemic!
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“What if the knee had been in his back for seven minutes instead? We’re not fighting for safer violence. We’re not fighting for near-death experiences for our people.” -
@dereckapurnell
with the wisdom on reform.
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Y’all, more police are not the answer. Schools built like prisons are not the answer.
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Happy 26th birthday, Trayvon. Everything we do is with you in our hearts. We started because you were taken from us and everything we do is to create a world where no one has to feel that pain again. Sending you love from the ground up.
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“Nothing will bring George Floyd back, and real justice can only be found when we make real investments in our communities, and move away from systems of state violence that destroy us.”
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"Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference" - Mike Brown's family's statement.
http://t.co/fFFNQqXjBO
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Dr. Armen Henderson, our Director of Health Programs, was handcuffed by Miami PD this morning in front of his home. He was cleaning his van before going to test & give supplies to the houseless. Cops didn’t believe he lived there.
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RIP to Sinéad O'Connor, a model for what it looks like to use your platform to fight for justice no matter the consequences, like using her '92 SNL performance to call out the Pope for hiding child abuse.
"Everyone wants a pop star, see? But I am a protest singer."
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Catch Angela Davis with brilliant leaders
@sheabutterfemme
@awkward_duck
@dereckapurnell
@delaneypv15
and
@iPhilSomething
on tomorrow’s Sunday School! Register here: .
“the problem is that reforms have often rendered the institution itself more permanent.” - angela davis perfectly explaining why reform isn’t enough and that abolition is the only way to go ✈️
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The reality is that DeSantis and the shooter are part of the same movement, they are part of a new Southern Strategy to reassert the power of white capitalists. The people at the top pass book bans and give speeches, and the people at the bottom kill our friends and neighbors.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was booed when he spoke at a Jacksonville vigil for the three victims killed in what officials say was a racially motivated attack
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“We must stop talking about a return to normal. Normal before COVID was 140 million people living in poverty.” —
@RevDrBarber
#SunDDaySchool
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NEW: Our very own
@RaGilmer
brought together
@TheBarbaraSmith
@israhirsi
@aja_monet
and
@KenidraRWoods_
for
@TeenVogue
to talk about black feminism, Bernie Sanders and the world we’re fighting for.
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Want to know what we mean when we say
#DefundThePolice
and
#abolishprisons
? This Sunday at 1 pm, join Dr. Angela Davis,
@awkward_duck
,
@sheabutterfemme
,
@dereckapurnell
for SunDDay School to talk about a world without police and prisons!
Register here:
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Rest in Peace brother Julian Bond. You contributed so much to our liberation. We will continue in your honor.
http://t.co/GEbR2L2VfU
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Eric Holder from
#ferguson
: "I understand that mistrust. I am the Attorney General, but I am also a Black Man"
http://t.co/JDRqlzasjQ
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BREAKING: FL Democratic Party passed a resolution modeled after our Freedom Pledge today to stop taking money from private prisons.
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News outlets keep saying this is being caused by "wildfires in Canada", but they need to say the whole thing. This was caused by ignoring the climate crisis and prioritizing profits over living breathing human beings.
Absolutely surreal image of the New York skyline right now. The climate crisis must be stopped, and for that capitalism must be ended.
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Shout out to all the organizers and activists and families in Chicago who didn’t let
#LaQuanMcDonald
be forgotten. 🙏🏽
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Biden is gaslighting the shit outta us tonight. Whew.
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Another world is possible. On days like these, we get to prove it.
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The charged is a concealed firearm. Not the threats/brandishing. This is a slap on the wrist.
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If rich people were building a giant bomb that would eventually kill us all, police would still be there to beat up protesters who demanded the dismantling of the bomb. This is the climate struggle and it can not be separated from the struggle against policing as we know it.
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RIGHT NOW American Jews are at the Metropolitan Republican Club in NYC, demanding that the GOP
#EndWhiteNationalism
.
#WeAreHere
in solidarity with them. The Trump White House and the GOP are directly responsible for the wave of white nationalist violence sweeping the country.
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Still receiving details. The earlier video was the *second* time she got out of the car to harass the teenagers.
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MORE DETAILS: the kids were out there to save their housing development y’all. More soon.
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"Being in Palestine is like having a police officer sleeping in your bed." -
@m7mdkurd
on the connection between
#DefundthePolice
and
#FreePalestine
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RIP Muhammed Ali... You fought the system on so many levels and remained The Greatest through it all
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🚨 this is not a drill. Florida's voter reg system is down on the last day to register for the general election.
On the day of Florida’s voter registration deadline, the state’s online registration portal is down.
This is voter suppression.
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Rest in Power Prince.
This is hard news to take. Thank you for everything you've done for our culture.
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ALSO: 10,000 Strong Peacefully Protest In Downtown Baltimore, Media Only Reports The Violence
http://t.co/ikmnLrXGOf
http://t.co/ReSjwZ7gK7
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Walter Scott: A human being with a family.
Not just today's hashtag.
http://t.co/en4La2of2B
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Another video emerged of Bartlett screaming “n*ggers suck” out of his car window before he got out of his car.
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🗣🚨HB1 passed on the House Floor yesterday. Check this video by
@Skatunenetwork
out then sign the petition:
😳😳 FLORIDA BILL THAT WILL ALLOW LEGAL MURDER OF PROTESTORS???
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Anthony Swain is HOME!!!! Together with his family, partner orgs and lawyers, and your help, we were able to get Anthony Swain home to his family after four grueling years in jail without trial and testing positive for COVID-19. Read more about him here:
Weve raised 32k from 624 donors to free Anthony Swain.Hes been in jail 4yrs awaiting trial (eventhough he hasnt been convicted of any crime)because his family cant afford his 645k bond.He is paraplegic&has COVID19. Unaffordable bail should not be a death sentence! Please donate!
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Some great local political education, while we got people forced to sleep on concrete, we got real estate developers eating up entire neighborhoods to build apartments no one can afford to live in.
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Struggling to even find words about Toyin. We hoped she’d be found. She was 19. In one of our cities. She deserved so, so much more life and freedom and safety.
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Today, people of faith and conscience from Dream Defenders, Black Christians for Palestine, Palestine Feminist Collective and other groups came together with one clear purpose: to pray with Sen Rev Raphael Warnock and Sen Cory Booker for an end to the senseless violence in…
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Update: Ron DeSantis staff eating cake while Floridians are in crisis. Typical. They go to sleep in mansions, while the rest of us pinch pennies to pay rent. They lounge in yachts, while our kids are gunned down in their schools. We say enough. Our problems > your money
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After 1 year, there still aren't words adequate enough to describe our collective pain. What we do know, though, is that we will continue to lift up your family and loved ones and organize for a safer world free of the conditions that took you from us 🖤
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Tallahassee City Commissioner endorses Bernie Sanders!
Greetings from Florida.
@BernieSanders
, we got your back!
Bernie has consistently stood up for poor and working-class Americans, and I’m honored to join the coalition fighting alongside him.
See our release here:
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We stand with
@IlhanMN
from here in Florida. Ilhan believes and fights for the freedom, safety, and rights of oppressed people here and around the world. Leaders like her are more important than ever. We support Ilhan and we support
#BDS
.
#IStandWithIlhan
🎨 by
@watanstudio
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We stand with Linda Sarsour.
Linda has consistently shown up in defense of Black life, for Jewish & Muslim communities, for Palestinian resistance & for all of us.
She is our sister, comrade, a Dream Defenders advisory board member & an inspiration every day.
We love you, Linda!
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Some of these Broward students have been walking since 7am. They made it to the school board building!
#walkout
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AMAZING: In BOSTON, Ppl marched to South Bay Corrections House and THIS happened
#indictthesystem
(pic:
@efeghali
)
http://t.co/F4VeLDLkgG
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QUINTON IS BACK HOME WITH HIS FAMILY YALL!!! ♥️😭🙏🏽
A judge determined that Quinton was eligible for house arrest, but when his ankle monitor died, his bond was revoked and he was thrown in jail. Now, in the wake of COVID-19, a dead battery could cost Quinton his life. Help bring Quinton home
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RIP Israel “Reefa” Hernandez. Killed in 2013 by Miami Beach PD at 17 years old for tagging an abandoned building. No one was ever held accountable.
Some photos from today's protest in downtown Miami. Yes, that is Reefa's mother.
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Lastly, because it needs to be said: 1) The police are responsible for those 4 deaths. 2) Stealing does not make you deserve to be executed in the street.
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We deserve sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much
#betterthanbiden
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We got Bernie swag too! 😍
➡️Order the full collection here:
All proceeds will go towards funding our movement for Bernie and building youth political power.
#DDforBernie
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If you want to catch the Sunday School stream, you can watch it here!
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Powerful moment from today in Miami.
The march has stopped at the federal detention center downtown.
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Our prayers & thoughts go out to
#Charleston
This was an act of terrorism & a hate crime.
#9Candles
#BlackLivesMatter
http://t.co/lIalSf2yyK
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#SandraBland
is a HBCU alumni and a SGRho. Every historically black college and Greek organization MUST RISE UP. NO EXCUSES.
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This is powerful! And similar to what we tried to do when we took over the FL Capitol in 2013. We wanted our state legislators to pass Trayvon’s Law. Shout out to The Bucks!
Milwaukee Bucks call for Wisconsin’s gerrymandered, GOP-controlled legislature for return to session and deliver solutions.
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62% of the total vote out but Buttigieg won? But Bernie won the popular vote? With no time table on when the release of the full vote will be out?
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Nina Pop, a Black trans woman from Sikeston, Missouri had her life taken from her, her loved ones, and her community. The violence that threatens Black trans women shortens their life span to only 35 years. Nina was only 28 years old.
#SayHerName
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