10 Steps to Autocracy

Join us April 2nd to demand an END to the detention of children and families in Dilley, Texas. 🚨 On International Children’s Book Day, authors, educators, healthcare workers, care workers, labor leaders, and grassroots organizers across the country will come together on a livestream outside the South Texas Family Residential Center to #ReadThemHome. This vigil marks the beginning of a nationwide movement to shine a light on the harm of family detention and build momentum to end it for good. We will read aloud as an act of care and resistance, and we're calling on you to add your voice. Join partners including @domesticworkers, @NEAToday, @AFTunion, @SEIU, @FWDus, @communitychange, @LittleLobbyists, @MomsRising, @SA_Stands, and the End Family and Child Detention Coalition in calling to #EndChildDetention. Visit readthemhome.org to take action.

The American Gateways team is so proud to have participated in the #ReadThemHome campaign yesterday. We thank @10stepscampaign, @staceyabrams, and all the other amazing collaborators and organizations who supported this cause! 🌟🙌🏽

“What we're trying to do is help focus not only the mind, but the hearts. If Americans can't remember that children do not deserve to be incarcerated and tortured, then our democracy is already lost,” says Stacey Abrams on raising awareness of the ICE facility detaining children in Dilley, Texas. youtube.com/watch?v=xEwBKH…

On International Children's Book Day, our Lead Organizer, @staceyabrams, is reading "Stacey Speaks Up" for the children detained in Dilley, Texas, and across this country. They should be home, tucked safely in bed. Add your voice to national movement to #ReadThemHome and demand an end to child and family detention. Take action at ReadThemHome.org

📖 Our Lead Organizer, @staceyabrams, joins us outside the Dilley Detention Center — reading aloud for every child and family inside. Follow along at ReadThemHome.org

Thank you @ElenaHung202 from @LittleLobbyists for joining us today and reading to demand an end to family detention. 📚 Record your read-aloud. Share it. Tag #ReadThemHome. Take action at readthemhome.org

“They are all our library kids.” Reading aloud is an act of love. Books teach children that they matter, and the kids inside Dilley need to know they matter to us. @Mychal3ts joins the #ReadThemHome campaign to call for an end to child detention, and you can too!  Add your voice at readthemhome.org 📖 #ReadThemHome #EndChildDetention

Kids should be kids. Close Dilley now. Help us bring these children home by joining the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. Learn more at readthemhome.org. #ReadThemHome #EndChildDetention

We're here with @domesticworkers. Outside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas — reading aloud for every child and family inside. Are you reading with us? Post your video. Tag #ReadThemHome and join the livestream at readthemhome.org

Children are being detained indefinitely in ICE facilities across the country. Today Ilana Glazer is joining #ReadThemHome to speak out on behalf of the children detained in Dilley, and she’s asking you to take action. Volunteer and learn more at readthemhome.org #ReadThemHome #EndChildDetention

Join us today via livestream from 8 AM to 8 PM. Our American Gateways team will be teaming up with SA stands to read at 2:30 PM. 📖 Kids should be kids. Close Dilley now. Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. 10stepscampaign.org/read-them-home/

Today is International Children’s Book Day. Right now, children are being held in detention in Dilley, Texas, and across this country. They should be home. We’re reading today to say: enough. Bring them home. Join the livestream today to demand an END to the detention of children and families in Dilley, Texas. Take action at ReadThemHome.org #ReadThemHome

3/31 is National Run for Office Day: A celebration of the people already leading in their communities! Caregivers, teachers, nurses, and yes, you. Don’t miss it. Get inspired, get involved, and see how you can turn your leadership into a run for office. bit.ly/NROD26

Big news! Kennedy Human Rights has been selected as a finalist in @TheWebbyAwards! Our video featuring @staceyabrams, Autocracy in Ten Steps, is a finalist in the the Social & Games - Public Service, Social Impact & Activism category. At a time when democracy is being chipped away before our eyes, this video couldn’t be more urgent. Autocracy in Ten Steps breaks down how democratic backsliding happens in real time and what it means for all of us right now. We’re up for two awards: 1. The Webby Award, selected by the Webby Academy. 2. The Webby People’s Voice Award, decided by the public. Now we need your help! VOTE for us before April 16th: wbby.co/59010N

This project with Stacey Abrams and 10 Steps Campaign was nominated for @TheWebbyAwards! Vote here: wbby.co/58900N

Rev. Jesse Jackson understood the immense promise of America and his role in shaping its destiny. With courage, tenacity and an audacious spirit, he widened our capacity for imagining true unity and deepened our commitment to justice for all. I was one of the lucky beneficiaries of a vision he never forsook. God bless him and the Jackson family.

We’re deeply grateful for our partner, the National Urban Indian Family Coalition! Our 10 Steps to Freedom and Power are about standing with our communities, reclaiming our democracy, and doing the work together. Visit 10stepscampaign.org to learn more.

THANK YOU to everyone who attended our event in Los Angeles last week, hosted by @writersblocla and moderated by the amazing @lisaling! Learn more and get involved at 10stepscampaign.org

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