As we wait for a verdict, let’s be clear: (1) a carceral system will never truly bring justice to our communities. (2) We must rebuild the whole damn thing to center human rights. (3) Real justice would mean George Floyd could be home tonight with his fiancee & his daughter.
Follow
Eleanor Pratt
@EleanorEPratt
Committed to survival & wholeness of entire people| Researcher | MPA | Swarthmore alum| Opinions my own
Joined March 2015
Eleanor Pratt’s Tweets
making the child tax credit fully refundable is so critical to lifting kids out of poverty tpc.io/2OZeinT via
Fav BHM read so far - "Heroes...are often made mythic in ways that are troubling. Social change is never wrought by individuals. Movement is a collective endeavor and the romantic ideal of the hero obscures that truth."
excellent read by -"A nation that once enslaved Black people and declared them legally three-fifths of a person now pays many of their descendants less than a third of the minimum wage to which everyone else is entitled." nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opi
we need more paid family leave... also a much more equal division of labor🙃
nytimes.com/interactive/20
Pregnant + breastfeeding people should have been included in the vaccine trials🤦♀️and should definitely have access to the vaccine...this is so messed up
Quote Tweet
An eligible clinical therapist was denied the Moderna vaccine because Kane County says it will not give it to pregnant or breastfeeding moms trib.al/Tp9jsSR
Topics to follow
Sign up to get Tweets about the Topics you follow in your Home timeline.
Carousel
Awesome reporting by on housing insecurity in Chicago during the pandemic. And my favorite kind of storytelling - letting the folks living the experience be the masters of the narrative.
2
While I'm overjoyed to have our Madame VP😍 we also have to recognize that we just lost our ONLY Black woman in the senate (and we've only had two). #undertheblacklight
"The belief in general is that we have to police black and brown people who want freedom, but for white folks, and for white supremacy culture, they need to blow off some steam, they're not that harmful." - on #UnderTheBlacklight
Live now:
14
34
Well this is a pretty good argument for DC Statehood. If DC were a state it would have a Governor. A Governor could activate the national guard. But DC is a protectorate of the federal government, essentially dependent on the folks complicit in this lil' coup. #DCStatehood
102
4,986
17.5K
black chicagoans are dying from covid at 6x the rate of white chicagoans. we needed high quality demographic data in order to identify that disparity. the obvious next question - what are we gonna do about it? #MetroRecovery
6
there is a joy that comes from watching two brilliant and highly successful black women in positions of power talk to each other about the future of our city #MetroRecovery
2
Affordable housing, mental health, and workforce development are key parts of what allow people to see a future here in Chicago #MetroRecovery
3
"If your people are hurting, if they are traumatized, if they don’t feel hope and have a belief in tomorrow, then the economic recovery is never going to be as fulsome as you would like it to be," Lori Lightfoot says. brook.gs/2RVbztA #MetroRecovery
3
2
The United States was not built for blacks folks to BE. That's why we're out here. #unionpark #BlackLivesMatter
1
We’re finding out the mayor has contracted for five hundred private security officers this weekend. A company called Monterrey Security. No names or badge numbers on their uniforms so accountability will be very difficult.
195
2,632
4,688
Show this thread
I spent three years working alongside police departments across the US on reform. As my former colleague soberly reminded us yesterday, it wasn't enough. We can't fix a system built on white supremacy. That's why I support #AbolitionNotReform
2
32
81
Show this thread
"But so many of these reforms simply don't work.
Why is that?
Because the criminal justice system was founded upon white supremacy and capitalism - and it continues to serve those dual gods regardless of how much we tweak it with reforms." #urbaninstitute
Quote Tweet
As Black lives continue to be violently taken by sanctioned state force - we need to think seriously about abolition vs reform and which will bring about true justice.
Here are some thoughts from my perspective as a former justice policy researcher. #abolitionnotreform (1/9)
Show this thread
4
13
"Abolition is an invitation to do something better. Abolition requires research, creatively, partnership, and principles. It’s not easy but it is only way to towards the flourishing of black people in this nation."
Quote Tweet
I researched policing professionally for 4 years and experientially for a couple decades. Here is a thread on why we need #abolitonnotreform now and institutions like @urbaninstitute need step away from reformist work and join the creative work of abolitionist visioning.
Show this thread
1
my amazing former colleagues justice policy center are calling for @abolitionnotreform and holding up to the light how police reform research profits from and legitimizes an institution based fundamentally on white supremacy and violence twitter.com/mjgoff2/status
This Tweet is unavailable.
1
I ended up learning from REDDIT of all places how I needed to enter my address information so the IRS system would let me update my routing info
Quote Tweet
Enjoying this webinar on administrative burden hosted by @IRP_UW. I had my own experience with admin burden a few weeks ago while I was waiting waiting waiting for my stimulus check...
Enjoying this webinar on administrative burden hosted by . I had my own experience with admin burden a few weeks ago while I was waiting waiting waiting for my stimulus check...
2
4
Really enjoying this discussion from on COVID-19 and philanthropy #cfwfiresidechat youtube.com/watch?v=b7fTyO
2
2
"Instead of remembering my hometown as the 'the place where COVID originated', I want people to respect Wuhan as a city with beautiful history, culture, and people. This is the Wuhan I know." -
3:59
45.3K views
24
412
914
Show this thread
Prof Gwyn Pauley: Access to dental care is no small thing and shouldn't be forgotten #LFPF2020
This brief explores children’s behaviors when a father is incarcerated and released to understand whether negative child outcomes from parental incarceration persist even after parents return.
@tacraigie
opressrc.org/content/father
1
This thread. I can’t get this story out my head. I carried Naima’s stroller alone so many times. People treat moms and kids—especially, but not only, Black, Brown and/or poor ones—like an inconvenience in this city. New Yorkers stick together? I don’t see that for moms.
Quote Tweet
Heartbroken over the story of the mother who died holding her child’s stroller at the bottom of these subway steps last night. I am covering it today - and every parent I talk to agrees — it’s a terrifying part of raising babies in this city.
Show this thread
30
334
950
why did I move to Wisconsin? 🙃
Quote Tweet
(5) BOTTOM LINE: Being outside AT ALL Wednesday/Thursday morning will be extremely challenging. Wind chills like this come along once in a generation. This cold could be life-threatening, and should not be taken lightly.
I hope this helps, and I hope everyone stays safe
Show this thread
2
Women spend up to $1,200 more than men on transit in New York City every year as they try to avoid harassment and navigate with small children. wired.com/story/nyc-publ
12
11