Andrea Ritchie also @dreanyc123.bsky.social
@dreanyc123
Followers
24,648
Following
1,424
Media
714
Statuses
29,808
Black. Lesbian. Immigrant. Author @InvisibleNMBook . Co-author #NoMorePolice . Cofounder @interruptcrim & @inournames .
Detroit, MI
Joined June 2011
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
어린이날
• 545827 Tweets
こどもの日
• 520131 Tweets
#ขวัญฤทัยEP12
• 287416 Tweets
子供の日
• 141117 Tweets
GW最終日
• 75899 Tweets
#해피큥데이
• 62283 Tweets
Al Jazeera
• 51397 Tweets
#기다리던_민족대명절_큥탄일
• 50357 Tweets
West Ham
• 45602 Tweets
Vlad
• 38123 Tweets
Cole Palmer
• 37292 Tweets
#HappySkyDay
• 35871 Tweets
#碧海これからも一緒に歳取ろうね
• 29474 Tweets
سعد اللذيذ
• 28149 Tweets
Noni
• 26664 Tweets
Bernard Hill
• 25678 Tweets
Gallagher
• 23602 Tweets
柱稽古編
• 21277 Tweets
Madueke
• 18955 Tweets
Brighton
• 17641 Tweets
Happy Cinco de Mayo
• 14772 Tweets
D-1 to BLOSSOM
• 14481 Tweets
Theoden
• 13306 Tweets
Cucurella
• 11901 Tweets
サカナクション
• 11652 Tweets
蜜璃ちゃん
• 10907 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
Seems like today is an especially good day for a book called
#NoMorePolice
to be released…
The president is giving a major speech today about his tough on crime 2.0 from Wilkes-Barre PA about “public safety” and funding police. And it’s just something about running there that reeks of 90s era fear mongering at the expense of impacted communities.
20
132
525
21
43
170
Never in my lifetime have almost half a city's voters voted to break a police stranglehold on a city budget or reimagine public safety beyond cops. The fact that
#Minneapolis
did is a testament to the organizers who offered residents a vision of a safer more just city
#Yeson2
9
459
3K
What I learned since Rodney King:
It doesn't matter who does it
It doesn't matter where they live
It doesn't matter how good the policy is
It doesn't matter how much oversight there is
It doesn't matter how many prosecutions or consent decrees
Policing is violence.
#NoMorePolice
17
737
3K
At one point, an officer said, “You’re acting like a child.” She responded, “I am a child.”
When she refused to sit inside a police car, an officer pepper-sprayed her. SHE IS 9.
17
1K
3K
A reporter trying to learn about abolition asked me "what about home invasions?" and I was like (genuinely confused) "you mean the one
#BreonnaTaylor
died in?"We really need to stop excising police violence from our understanding about violence & what we do about it
#DefundPolice
14
649
2K
In 2 months
#NoMorePolice
will officially be out in the world!
@prisonculture
& I hope it will be helpful to organizers meeting multiple unfolding catastrophes & to all of us reaching for different worlds & paths to reach them! You can pre-order at:
44
518
2K
Criminalization of abortion and access to gender-affirming care affects more than just the people who seek those particular forms of care - it criminalizes and reduces access to care for anyone who needs hormone replacement therapy, contraception, or drugs deemed abortifacients.
i’ve never had an abortion but my access to healthcare has changed because Roe was overturned.
I have
#Lupus
which is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that causes my immune system to attack my organs, joints, skin, and muscles.
i take
#Methotrexate
as one of my treatments
335
11K
37K
13
917
2K
I hate being right about this but for all the people who fought me hard when I insisted that having cops collect info about the gender identity & sexual orientation of people they stopped so that profiling & police abuse of LGBTQ ppl would be more “visible” is. TERRIBLE IDEA 👇🏼
The Florida Medical Board is floating the idea of creating a registry for trans people in Florida. Nothing good happens when the state starts creating a list of LGBTQ people.
256
4K
18K
6
643
2K
Friends. If someone is pulling down a statue, don't film them doing it in a way where they can easily be identified and then post it on social media. We are lawyers, not magicians. At least, no one as handing out magic wands at my law school.
6
548
2K
#BreonnaTaylor
#SayHerName
A year ago last night a Black woman went to sleep in her bed at home where she should have been safe and woken up this morning. Instead the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department invaded her home in the middle of the night & murdered her. [THREAD]
29
1K
2K
From
@prisonculture
& me: The System That Killed Breonna Taylor Cannot Deliver Justice For Her. We want to direct our energies toward collective strategies that are more likely to be successful in delivering healing & transformation & prevent future harms.
4
882
2K
Wait, I'm sorry, what was that, DOJ? I couldn't hear you. Did you say violence went DOWN 22% in 2020?? Funny, you didn't make a big deal about this data, which is based on people reporting what happened to them instead of cops telling us...Hmmmm...
4
478
2K
This exactly why
#DefundPolice
has to mean abolish policing and not just re place one set of police with another.
These are the “mental health” responders that deal with unhoused people in Riverside, CA. Pic from
@nolasco909
#StopCarceralAbleism
#DisabilityJustice
#DecarcerateMentalHealth
131
746
2K
11
520
1K
Reading proofs of
#NoMorePolice
feeling like I really put my best thinking into it & know
@prisonculture
did too. In the midst of multiple crises, I am hopeful that it serves organizers & movements, sparks imagination, shapes change & sows seeds of different futures
#DefundPolice
18
244
1K
How ENRAGINGLY on brand for Lori Lightfoot to immediately jump to talking about how traumatic it was for the COP WHO KILLED
#ADAMTOLEDO
I just cannot... the levels of rage...
Lightfoot: "When you see — and I urge you, if you watch it, watch all the footage — you're gonna see that officer spring into action to try to revive Adam, to call for medical assistance. I don't know him. I don't even know anything, very little about him. But I've had ...
60
60
281
20
250
1K
They are literally sentencing the majority of us in the US & around the world to mass suffering & death reminding us in no uncertain terms that this is a violent settler colonial racial capitalist patriarchal state, as they have so many times before.
There is no reforming this.
make no mistake, apart from announcing their targets -- Black and brown people, women, the planet -- and their allies -- this is all out warfare from the Court on social movements organizing to raise people's expectations about what we might do together
5
282
1K
3
338
996
No words just profound relief, celebration, and deep care and concern for her wellbeing. May she be surrounded with nothing but love.
42
265
1K
CW: Severe sexual and physical violence - the story of Lisa Montgomery, the woman on federal death row scheduled to be executed tomorrow.
#SaveLisa
Tomorrow, January 12, the federal government plans to execute Lisa Montgomery, a woman with severe mental illness who suffered relentless physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, including being trafficked by her own mother.
There is still time to stop this from happening.
125
814
2K
12
742
966
Y'all do know that we police "misconduct" attorneys sometimes win motions to defeat qualified immunity, and those cops are still out there beating, sexually assaulting, and killing people, right??
10
226
942
In
#BatonRouge
. In a pandemic. This is what police violence against Black women looks like.
this is what BRPD did to my grandma’s house at 6am this morning while she & her grandchildren were sleeping. They threw a bomb at the door and kicked it completely off the hinges. Destroyed her house, looking for somebody who does not live there..
113
3K
6K
5
510
817
If you are a health care provider in NYC refuse to participate in this blatant violation of your oath to do no harm. Join the
#BeyondDoNoHarmNetwork
for more information and support & follow
@interruptcrim
for more info.
Breaking News: New York City will hospitalize more mentally ill people involuntarily, in a push to remove them from streets and subways, Mayor Eric Adams said.
1K
1K
5K
3
375
819
This is why the demand is still
#DefundPolice
- not more rules that won't be enforced, not more oversight that won't change behavior on the ground. Simply, no more of this. Period.
10
250
767
There’s a lot of talk about cops & violence and very little about the sexual violence they CAUSE. Check out our report summarizing research & recs on police sexual violence. Short version: less cops, less contact, less sexual harassment, extortion & assault
#DefundPolice
#MeToo
Learn more about police sexual violence — what we know, and what we can do about it — in our 2021 report, "Shrouded in Silence."
1
94
161
7
413
765
.
@prisonculture
& I shared some thoughts on
#ChauvinTrial
#verdict
&
#MakhiaBryant
for
@newsone
The whole damn system is in fact guilty as hell. It’s time to build a world where there is more safety resources & options: a world without police
#DefundPolice
32
361
711
The bridge to the future we want lies in where we invest resources now, not in continuing to shackle our imaginations to the violence of policing or the failed idea that we can somehow contain it, or demands that we have something that looks the same "at scale" to do away with it
1
177
700
Seriously. Abolition is about preventing & interrupting harm. Masks prevent & interrupt ongoing harms of 400 reported (likely much higher) COVID deaths/day & 1/4 chance of long COVID that increases w/each infection. We are never getting to abolitionist futures if we can’t do this
6
258
676
“Can we build new worlds together that cannot be crushed or contained by the collapsing box of carcerality? I believe that work is already happening, and that it is up to each of us to find our place, and to seed what must be grown.”
@MsKellyMHayes
2
232
662
Our beloved, brilliant & bad-ass
@prisonculture
turns 50 today!!! Join me in celebrating half a century of classic MK rants, stand up comedy, poetry, auction & knitting news & of course, Hallmark channel updates, and wishing her health, happiness, joy & peace for the second half!
3
62
659
That is absolutely correct I have been taking calls from the increasingly frantic friends and family of people arrested since 7 pm & calling NYPD relentlessly and NO ANSWER at detention area of 1 PP - hard to invoke someone’s right to an attorney when no one will pick up phone.
7
362
637
This is the work
@interruptcrim
’s Beyond Do No Harm network has been doing since 2019, now under the leadership of
@mariatho1
. We are building resources for providers & patients to resist criminalization through access to care with practitioners, patients, researchers & advocates
Healthcare workers: Do not cooperate with the police on this. Research the laws that empower us to say no to requests for information. We all have spent years in training to provide care, not to prop up fascism.
40
3K
13K
3
251
633
No disrespect to any of the recipients, but every year I wonder how many people recommended
@prisonculture
and how many excuses they had to come up with to say no - maybe the issue is we haven't come up with an abolition emoji yet?
Let's take a moment today to celebrate boundless creativity...🧠⚡
Meet the 2021 MacArthur Fellows, 25 extraordinarily creative and inspiring individuals in all fields of endeavor:
🎼🌎🩺😷⚖️🖼️🇰🇵🇰🇷🔬🎨🎥🖤🇵🇷🌍🇺🇸🇲🇽🗳️👩🦯♿🧠📱🪨➡️🌱📈📽️✊🦠💃
65
748
3K
10
50
629
STFU My home in the early 1990s was next to the clinic in Binghamton NY at the height of Operation Rescue. None of us, least of all the people seeking abortions or other health care, clinic staff, those of us doing clinic defense, or anyone who lived nearby enjoyed any peace 24/7
Please don't protest at people's homes.
Please don't intrude on people attending their houses of worship.
Organize politically, be civil civically.
22K
3K
30K
7
132
606
Um some of us not only have up close in person experiences of what police do on a daily basis, but we study it, teach it, and research it. Sit DOWN.
Many lefties have no idea what police do on a daily basis. There's really little interest in talking to cops or crime prevention experts, promoting reform & investments in civil society. Many have picked a scapegoat and will vilify at every opportunity.
1K
307
4K
8
66
573
Yeah why don’t you start with the 39000 cops not wearing masks & preventing people from social distancing by arresting them & then refusing to show up for court dates so they are stuck in jails where they can’t protect themselves OH & HOW ABOUT YOU RELEASE PPL IN PRISON AT RISK?!
We have received 25,000 complaints of reopening violations.
Bars or restaurants that violate the law can lose their liquor license.
People with open containers in the street can be fined.
Police & protesters not wearing masks can be fined.
Local gov't must enforce the law.
16K
6K
32K
1
193
579
A trans woman I once represented was held here over a weekend while her loved ones frantically tried to locate her to bail her out in response to her increasingly desperate pleas. It's another level of hell. Thanks for shining a spotlight on the floating gulag
@ava
6
250
556
Killing
#LisaMontgomery
did not return Bobbi Jo to her family, change the conditions that contributed her death - the decades of torture, rape & abuse Lisa endured & our failure to protect her or support her healing - or deter future violence. It was just more horrific violence.
And Lisa was much more than the tragic crime she committed, a crime for which she felt deep remorse before she lost all touch with reality in the days before her execution.
4
8
62
22
185
551
We can demand full accountability, immediate termination and removal from all positions of power, and FULL REPARATIONS for
#BreonnaTaylor
’s family & loved ones. That is far more likely to bring justice than a prosecution, especially in this case.
0
242
552
Who is working on abolition & climate change?
38
75
539
JUST LAUNCHED! - a 1 stop-shop for campaigns to defund police! Search resources & legislation, ask questions & connect with organizers! Brought to you by
@cresourcehub
@C_Resistance
@interruptcrim
@policylink
@Law4BlackLives
@ACREcampaigns
#DefundPolice
11
318
516
I am deeply honored and grateful to have been invited by
@KaepernickPub
to contribute this piece to the incredible
#AbolitionforthePeople
series.
#SayHerName
#JusticeforBreonna
#DefendBlackWomen
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackWomenMatter
#BlackTransLivesMatter
6
162
498
As
@prisonculture
pointed out in her NYT op ed last summer, people who actually do what they are supposed to do - like, say, childcare workers - don’t get or need a PR budget...
2
97
476
Some of us are out here actually *doing* the work of
#DefundPolice
- countless hours on zoom with organizers across the country learning, strategizing, skill sharing, building together, creating tools & research, while a *lot* of folks are *talking* & *theorizing* about it...
7
52
457
Huge congrats to Austin organizers who fought back an attempt by police frats to lock the city into 500 more cops at the expense of much needed public services and public sector workers.
#NoWayonPropA
EARLY VOTE RESULTS: Prop A is imploding in Travis County, where the bulk of Austin voters live.
17
81
587
3
89
467
Thanks to
@lithub
for publishing an excerpt of
#NoMorePolice
chapter on Black feminism & abolition, citing many teachers & touchstones including Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Beth Richie, Rachel Herzing,
@BarbaraRansby
@TheBarbaraSmith
@incitenews
++
2
210
466
Of course, I don't agree with the last two guests.
@prisonculture
& I address their arguments in
#NoMorePolice
, including debunking the notion that we can "both/and" our way to liberation. It's not policing now, abolition sometime in the far distant future, it's
#AbolitionNow
.
1
64
464
Registration is LIVE for the Abolition is Feminism/Feminism is Abolition conference
@scrippscollege
April 8-10! Please register for each day separately whether virtual or in person! Opening keynote w/
@prisonculture
& me feat sneak peek into
#NoMorePolice
!
3
236
456
There are now curfews in 25 cities in 16 states creating yet more opportunities and conditions for police profiling, violence and criminalization. Curfews do NOT make anyone in our communities safer, they are sites of violence against our communities.
“What we know is curfews increase opportunities for police interaction and police violence over time,” says Andrea Ritchie, a criminal justice researcher at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
8
149
319
0
232
426
This is the piece so many people miss about abolitionist movements: they are made up of & led by survivors of violence of all kinds who are building a world where we & those we love wouldn't experience what we did & where everyone has access to healing & transformation of harm.
So simple and direct, the beginning of this chapter in NO MORE POLICE by
@prisonculture
&
@dreanyc123
, 🌟"we are also abolitionists because we are both survivors" makes me cry every time I read it, thinking about this connection in my life too, in all our lives as survivors ⚡
2
30
211
3
149
445
An essential thread as white supremacist transphobic homophobic violence proliferates and intensifies.
We are not going to police, prosecute or “hate crime” our way out of it.
1
156
430
Deeply humbled & grateful for these reviews of
#NoMorePolice
forthcoming August 30, co-authored by me &
@prisonculture
. You can pre-order from
@Bookshop_Org
or your local independent bookstore or your local library & email nomorepolicebook
@gmail
.com re: events, etc
#DefundPolice
"An impassioned and bold call to abolish police forces" - Read
@LibraryJournal
's starred review 🌟 of the forthcoming NO MORE POLICE by
@prisonculture
and
@dreanyc123
5
75
164
7
131
435
A thread on a groundbreaking new report out of New Orleans on police sexual violence 👇🏼
0
258
418
STOP. GIVING.
#AmericanRescuePlanAct
$ TO COPS. If we want to stop violence cops aren't the answer. They are a source of violence & steal $ from the things that do stop it: housing, health care, income, education, community. More ->
0
142
412
“Black sex workers must be part of
@Mvmnt4BlkLives
because our lives are Black lives. Black women are arrested at 2-3 times the rate of white women, raped, beaten & killed by police. We need you to demand investment in what we need”-
#SixNineteen
#SayHerName
vigil
#DefundPolice
7
161
395
Here’s a crowd of NYPD officers with no masks and not practicing social distancing. An hour before a scheduled protest in Brooklyn support of justice for
#GeorgeFloyd
#COVIDWithoutCops
25
157
393
In case you are wondering about the basis for “money laundering” charges against
@ATLSolFund
: being reimbursed for gas, totes, COVID rapid tests, media and yard signs.
Make no mistake about who they are coming for, how & why.
There’s no neutral - speak up & get in.
7
256
395
Hold Breonna’s mother, lover, family & community close in your heart & thoughts today and let’s continue to
#SayHerName
until we have created a world where
#BreonnaTaylor
would still be here
#JusticeforBre
#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor
#BlackWomenMatter
#DefundthePolice
#DefundPolice
#BreonnaTaylor
#SayHerName
A year ago last night a Black woman went to sleep in her bed at home where she should have been safe and woken up this morning. Instead the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department invaded her home in the middle of the night & murdered her. [THREAD]
29
1K
2K
4
147
387
.
@prisonculture
’s We Do This Til We Free Us is
#9
on the NYT Bestseller list! 🤩 Changing my blurb! “So many MORE of us have been introduced to abolition - or invited into a deeper understanding and practice of abolitionist politics - through Mariame Kaba's words, work, & vision”
5
85
389
Today is my last day teaching Social Justice
@NorthwesternU
(formerly taught by
@prisonculture
) b/c of cuts. I am so grateful to all my brilliant & creative students & the amazing organizers who came to teach us. Here are some gorgeous images created by one student for her final.
14
98
372
As
#COVID19
rates rise, so are curfews, mask mandates & other restrictions enforced through fines in an economic crisis & criminalization driving people to jails & prisons experiencing high infection rates. There is another way: support people to stay safe.
#COVIDWithoutCops
1
167
364
Critical analysis from
@melissagira
on why the white supremacist attack on the Capitol points to systemic issues within policing and reasons to
#DefundPolice
not give them MORE money and weapons.
#DefundThePolice
10
134
359
Twitter allowed us to tell Black women, queer & trans people's stories of police violence & resistance in real time, without media & mainline civil rights or police accountability organizations filtering our experiences out of the "main" narrative of police violence.
#SayHerName
1
91
373
Just released at
#AMC2022
👇🏼a NEW resource collecting tools for evaluating whether demands & organizing campaigns bring us closer to a world without policing & punishment
#AbolitionNow
imagined
@prisonculture
curated:
@interruptcrim
&
@C_Resistance
beautifully assembled
@evanagao
✨NEW RESOURCE: We are thrilled to share this resource collection to aid in evaluation and reflection, "So is this Actually an Abolitionist Proposal or Strategy?" We hope this is useful to abolitionist organizers everywhere!
@projectnia
@C_Resistance
8
677
1K
2
124
354
Survivors are leading the fight to
#DefundPolice
because police, prisons, detention centers, foster placements, psych hospitals & mandated programs are sites of physical & sexual & spiritual violence. It's time to
#DefundPrisonsDefendSurvivors
- more at
1
171
342
“Having a squad of police officers whose job is to go undercover, buy or sell sex...is a recipe for abuse” If you want to end sexual violence, police, who are prime perpetrators, esp. against people in the sex trades, are not the answer.
#DefundPolice
3
115
346
Why we need to
#DefundPolice
- they are not preventing sexual violence, they are perpetrating it. More in
@invisiblenmbook
, available for free on Kindle.
4
228
333
@prisonculture
We understood "privacy" and "privilege" come from the same root...and that the basis for those decisions was never about fundamental rights and always excluded/risked excluding people who have never been afforded either...and that the law is whatever people in power say it is 🤷🏽♀️
1
69
348
.
@chicagosmayor
you CANNOT pretend to be the social distancing ambassador and LOCK 400 PEOPLE IN CAGES WHERE THEY CANT STAY SAFE after you declared a curfew AFTER they couldn’t leave. LET. THEM. GO. HOME. AND. BE. SAFE.
1
98
333
TODAY IS THE DAY beloved comrade, colleague, co-struggler & co-conspirator
@prisonculture
’s brilliant book We Do This Til We Free Us is out from
@haymarketbooks
! Don’t wait another minute - get your copy today!
7
134
331
Our
#InterruptingCriminalization
#DefundPolice
toolkit is now available for download at , brought to you by me,
@prisonculture
and Woods Ervin (
@abolition_build
) and the letter D!
#DefundPolice
#FundthePeople
#DefendBlackLives
4
261
326
Is your city considering a new mental health crisis response system? We have a checklist for you! Not everything branded "CAHOOTS" is the same. The devil is in the details & implementation & cops sabotage to keep $! More at
#DefundPolice
#RefundCommunities
7
170
330
Congrats to Sundiata and all who fought tirelessly for his freedom! Dare to fight, dare to win!
#FreeThemAll
Breaking News: The New Jersey State Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Sundiata Acoli, the former Black Panther Party member will be released from prison.
#wbai
#aclu
@PrisonPolicy
@MarshallProj
@RAPPcampaign
1
146
336
0
79
323
Sending all of my love, strength, solidarity & respect to
@BlackVisionsMN
@reclaimtheblock
& all the organizers who have been pushing & inspiring all of us to dream big, fight hard for the world we want & deserve, take risks, expand our imaginations & extend toward our vision.
1
61
324
What a load of horseshit. If you want to know the real story of ongoing vibrant movements to
#DefundPolice
check
@interruptcrim
’s latest tracking dozens of campaigns w/ detailed demands & comprehensive visions for safer thriving communities across the US
Three years after “defund the police” became a rallying cry after the murder of George Floyd, efforts largely fizzled in Minneapolis and beyond after activists failed to build broad support for a movement that lacked a clear definition.
59
17
65
4
151
314
It's budget season! is a one-stop-shop for campaigns to defund police! Search organizing resources and legislation, ask questions using the chat function & connect with existing networks.
#DefundPolice
7
169
307
Check out the Police Abolition 101 zine by
@prisonculture
brought to you by
@projectnia
&
@interruptcrim
!!! Instructions for how to download and print inside.
#DefundPolice
#DefundthePolice
#AbolitionNow
6
183
309
It is a very different thing to write about the work while doing the work than it is to write about the work while other people are doing the work.
4
51
308
SO much rage at what happened here. A critical lesson on why we can't stop at replacing cops in schools with social workers who will...act like and call the cops. We need interventions with social workers & medical professionals who facilitated the criminalization of this child.
Unbelievable.
Cops lure Nadia, a little 6 yr old girl, out of a FL school, claim they’re taking her on a “field trip”, and take her to a mental health facility for 2 days where she is sedated— without contacting her mother much less getting her consent.
122
1K
1K
7
153
306
Rage. Just, RAGE.
In your name, Cop City will NEVER be built.
So much love and care to Tortuguita’s family and community as you grieve and rage.
We knew they were lying & everything that comes out continues to prove it. Cops on camera saying the cop shot was hit by friendly fire. Autopsy showing Tort was shot 13 times with their hands up & sitting cross legged. This was a death by firing squad, a political assassination.
2
123
466
3
78
305
Yet another example of police putting Black people's lives at risk in multiple ways under the pretext of enforcing public health laws.
#PandemicPolicing
Support the radical life saving work of
@Dreamdefenders
A Black doctor in Miami who has been testing the homeless for COVID-19 was detained outside his home while he was unloading his van.
Police say they thought he was illegally offloading trash.
2K
37K
69K
4
146
302
I am desperately fighting for a world where
#TyreNichols
is tearing it up at a skate park somewhere today & looking forward to photographing the sunset, not one where we are talking about what we do *after* the cops beat him to death. Not QI, not duty to intervene,
#NoMorePolice
Video of Tyre Nichols. Not of his death, but moments of life, skating and tearing it up.
So much youth and vitality ripped away by the state.
Anti-Blackness is at the core of this system which must be dismantled.
0
37
105
3
103
302
Such an important read about why and how survivors are leading the fight to
#DefundPolice
so we can better prevent & intervene in violence and stop leaving most survivors behind: What Domestic Violence Activists Can Teach Us About Police Abolition
1
187
291
I woke up today bereft & in disbelief to a world in which this force of nature is no longer among us.
I first learned of Urvashi after she came to speak at Desh Pardesh in the early 90s in Toronto, where she left a mark as a proud South Asian anti-capitalist lesbian.
2
52
280
If you are a lawyer/legal worker/national legal organization/legal clinic outside Atlanta who wants to support folks on the ground fighting to
#StopCopCity
given the RICO charges (especially if you have RICO experience) please reach out to coordinate w/ what's already moving.
The state has officially filed RICO charges against 60 people allegedly part of the Stop Cop City movement. We’re going to need all hands on deck to defeat these bogus charges. They’re straight up political prosecutions.
But it’s not the time to panic, it is the time to organize
34
3K
6K
2
203
288
I wish I could tell you this is uncommon. I wish I could tell you it's an aberration. I wish I could tell you that it won't continue to happen every minute cops exist. But I can't. What I can offer is a teach-in about police sexual violence tomorrow- join us
#MeToo
#CopsToo
#SAAM
For years, the Boston police kept a secret: the patrolmen's union president was an alleged child molester.
Patrick Rose kept his badge and ascended to power in the police union.
He went on to allegedly molest five other children.
1K
9K
11K
3
122
272
It's a
#NoMorePolice
triple header this weekend!
I'll be at the
@thecouncilus
#FreeHer
conference Friday 9/30 in the D, 10/2
@prisonculture
will be
@BKBF
in NYC & I will be at
@HighlanderCtr
's 90th Anniversary for Abolition is the Future w/
@_AshDashLee_
&
@imaniperry
! Details 👇🏽
6
83
282
Some highlights from a new report from
@interruptcrim
summarizing victories, lessons and key strategies from organizers on the frontlines of movements to
#DefundPolice
- Over the past 6 mos organizers across the country extracted over $840 million dollars from police depts 1/4
7
165
275
We see how hard & long & beautifully you have been fighting to dismantle the department & systems that killed
#GeorgeFloyd
& create a world where he & thousands more would still be here. We hope you take the time to rest, replenish, celebrate all the ways you changed the world.
2
41
277
Lorena was profoundly kind, fierce, and about the business of trans liberation. May she rest in power. Lorena Borjas, Presente!
1
115
260
People in communities across the country are creating more safety for themselves and each other, dreaming and building abolitionist futures, and changing the shape of the world. Right now. RIGHT. NOW. 💗💗💗✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
1
74
271
“Improper mask wearing” is NOT EVEN A THING. Again,
@NYCMayor
you are pushing 5+ cops to come MUCH closer than 6 fr to someone and pin her to the ground where viral aerosol falls for “improper mask wearing” to prevent...what now?!?! Let’s just call this what it is - policing.
4
88
267
YES. It’s
#Juneteenth
and it’s time for reparations for
#BreonnaTaylor
’s family & community! Healing, repair, accountability, acknowledgement and transformation of all conditions that led to her killing
#EndtheWaronDrugs
#DefundPolice
#ReparationsNow
Imagine if the demand switched from carceral justice for Breanna Taylor to abolition of the system that disregarded and ended her precious life
11
816
3K
0
131
259
If you are not listening now, please do yourself a favor and listen later - Robin D.G. Kelly offering critical analysis of struggles for reparations, abolition, and invitations to Freedom Dreams.
2
68
262