Marques Vestal

I met many homeless people in Grants Pass—with jobs that didn’t add up to rent, with disabilities or such trauma they couldn’t work. I know the faces of the people the Supreme Court just said should be in jail for sleeping outside. Now every city can do the same.

the Supreme Court just ruled that cities can make it a crime to be homeless, you could fry an egg on my rage

Following the continued race to the dark side, in Grants Pass v. Johnson, the @USSupremeCourt just voted for Jim Crow, Black Codes, Apartheid, Sundown Towns, and structural violence instead of the Human Right to Housing and Services. #TheyNotLikeUs #Resistance

Here is the razor-sharp analysis by the one & only Robin DG Kelley of antisemitism & anti-Palestinian violence at UCLA in @BostonReview : bostonreview.net/articles/uclas…

Join us tomorrow morning at 8am on 90.7 FM @KPFK as guest host Pete White of @LACANetwork and an impressive slate of local academic and organizers delve into the history and consequences of 41.18. Stream the conversation live at kpfk.org .

UC campuses now asking Academic Senate faculty to attest to their participation in the UAW strike, prompting a cease and desist letter from @uc_faculty and UCSC Faculty Association in a 🧵 : cucfa.org/2023/01/ucops-…

Flabbergasted🤯 to see systemwide UC Academic Senate leadership undermining protections for its own members (Senate faculty like me) & undermining solidarity w/ #UAWonStrike. Its latest guidance letter parrots🦜 administration talking points about the strike. A short 🧵: [1/5]

CA is the first state to seriously consider reparations for its Black residents. Want to learn more & give your input? Come out to the next Task Force meeting September 23 & 24 at the California Science Center! Details here 👉🏾bit.ly/3DCaO1A.