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“We send people to prison, and they don’t come back better.”
@stephanthomaskc is running for King County prosecutor. Let’s apply pressure to change harmful systems from the inside!
Link to full video: youtu.be/4nnY9NpNpXU
#seattle #kingcountyprosecutor #change
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What comes next in the #DerekChauvinTrial? Criminal defense attorney Yodit Tewolde and former Seattle police chief Carmen Best joined me on #PoliticsNation to share their thoughts.
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New evidence has emerged in the Derek Chauvin trial that illustrates the increased likelihood of dying at the intersection of Blackness, policing, and mental health.
Chauvin took 40 hours of crisis intervention training in 2016. It didn't work bc police reform doesn't work.
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Another painful example of how completely out of touch @MayorJenny is w/the housing precarity of so many neighbors. We invite @MayorJenny to come hear 👂from ACTUAL vehicle residents about what the reinstatement of the parking ban means for them.
A few RC vendors stories...
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Facts are facts. Would add centrist, progressive & liberal rackets too & acknowledge that some ppl in this space were part of that. Autonomous action was in fact the driver and the right answer. Most Seattle collectives have diluted rather than concentrated or strengthened power.
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Sgt. Michael Tietjen, the SPD officer who drove his unmarked SUV onto a sidewalk filled with protesters, is back on duty even though he still has multiple active OPA investigations pending.
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Huge follow-up on the car attack committed by Seattle Police a few nights ago. If there was any doubt as to what happened, here is the officer driving the unmarked car, admitting to driving onto the sidewalk. He claims he was trying to catch someone, so why didn't he stop?
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“There are MASSIVE demonstrations in Haiti, but because they are a stand against U.S. imperialism, they don’t want us to know”
Recap of #USOutofHaiti Rallies in DC, March 2021. #FreeHaiti #DCProtests
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Some context on this conversation, which started when Samaria Rice criticized a Grammy performance that reenacted a Black man being shot by police, and featured so-called "modern civil rights leaders" as part of the spectacle.
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The mothers of Tamir Rice & Richard Risher, who were killed by police at 12 & 18, have condemned celebrity activism, lack of fiscal transparency at BLM global, and co-opting of their fight for justice by capitalist opportunists.
They have released this statement. Share widely.
da’shaun | they/them@DaShaunLH
To read the statement in its entirety, click here: docs.google.com/document/d/11R…
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Standing Rock Water Defender Jailed After Refusing to Provide Testimony on Fellow Protesters democracynow.org/2021/3/24/head…
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Surely we are all watching the national conversation on fundraising, accountability, and aesthetic activism in #BLM (as a nonprofit ind complex, not the decentralized movement). It's nonnegotiable that mothers of the movement are centered, listened to, & heard in this dialogue.
Chantell Brooks mother of Michael Westley@Amotherspain1
ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!!! From The Mother Of Michael Westley........... We are at a state of emergency on Black and Brown Lives and The Game is Up. We have been fighting for 401 years and we are Mutha Fuckin Tired. We March, We scream, We Chant, We stood in front
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@Coll3enG @abc15 @12News @FOX10Phoenix @TeenVogue @RonanFarrow Many young women were sexually harassed a teacher in Arizona and the school district is refusing to help them.
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This is a very difficult topic for me to publicly talk about, but there was a teacher at my high school who would message me repeatedly on social media for years and attempt to hang out with me outside of school while I was in high school. I had always been concerned about this
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This is one of the few examples where a journalist respected the answer to the question (see 14:15) rather than pressing more to get a different answer. We still get "antifa bad" media requests to this day, more often than any other topic.
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White cultures villainize & mock white people who are willing to put their bodies & lives on the line for brown people. It's the conclusion that John Brown was crazy & antifascists are terrorists. It's middle school names like n***er lover and woke mob. They hate to see it.
The Moderate Man@TheModerateMan
Is it cultural appropriations if a BLM protest is nearly all white? #Rochester
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