Rep Alicia Kozlowski, “I asked my [incarcerated] brother, ‘What would it mean to you for us to restore the vote?’ He said, ‘It would mean that I could have a say in my kids' future & get it right for them because it wasn't right for me.” #RestoreTheVoteMN #MNLeg #HF28
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"Minnesota Freedom Fund Fights for Bail Justice"
- @freedomrideblog speaks with Elizer Darris of the @MNFreedomFund on this week's Black Agenda Radio: blackagendareport.com/minnesota-free
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"Minnesota Freedom Fund Fights for Bail Justice"
- speaks with Elizer Darris of the on this week's Black Agenda Radio:
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The Minnesota Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety Committee will hold a hearing to discuss and vote on the Driver's Licenses for All bill. You can watch the live stream below starting at 9am👇🏽 The future is ours!
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🚨 passed the Minnesota House tonight. Next stop is the Senate Judiciary committee.
Help pack Room 1200 at the Senate Office Building for the hearing at 9 am tomorrow.
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🎉 #RestoreTheVoteMN passes in the MN House 71/59!!! The #Freedom2Vote can be real for us all! On our way to the Senate! #MNLeg
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Big win tonight in the House! We'll be back again in the morning to testify before the Senate Judiciary & Public Safety Comm. Join us if you can! *TOMORROW* @ 9a.m. in Rm 1200 of the MN Senate Bldg #RestoreTheVoteMN #Freedom2VoteMN #MNLeg #HF28
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Finally we are here. Okay let’s get voting rights restoration passed today! 60,000 Minnesotans are waiting
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Minnesota is 1 of 16 states requiring completion of parole before voting. We also have one of the longest parole terms in the country.
This session we have the opportunity to restore voting rights to 50k+ Minnesotans.
Today legislators debate HF28 on the house floor. #mnleg
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A protester and MFF client who was arrested on riot charges on NYE 2020-2021 was acquitted yesterday more than two years after her arrest.
We exist so that she, and others like her, aren’t forced to sit in jail for years awaiting trial simply because they can’t afford bail.
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You can’t punish unhoused people into having access to housing.
You can’t create security for all by destroying it for some.
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🚨This is not a drill🚨 TWO Big turnout events are taking place this week (Tmw & Fri.)- Please show up and support! #RestoreTheVoteMN #Freedom2VoteMN #MNLeg
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Contrary to fearmongering by our critics, a large number of our clients are not ultimately convicted.
In 2021, 58% of the charges against our clients were dropped and 1 in 3 of our clients had the entire case against them dismissed.
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Let’s create a more inclusive democracy and restore the right to vote to our neighbors. #RestoreTheVoteMN
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Our democracy is built on the fundamental right to vote. Yet so many of our neighbors are denied this basic right because of past convictions and super long probation periods.
#RestoreTheVoteMN would fix that.
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Pack the Minnesota House this Thursday at 2:45pm for the House vote on #RestoreTheVoteMN.
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It is not illegal to seek asylum.
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If #TyreNichols had not died, we would not know his name. He'd be caught up in the court system trying to prove his innocence, paying healthcare costs for his injuries, and likely losing his job at FedEx when the charges hit his record.
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Two billion dollars. Think of what could be done to make sure no one ever GOES to jail in the first place with $2 billion.
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For decades, Black, brown, and Indigenous survivors of intimate partner violence have been modeling systems of community-based accountability and support.
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La invitación es para hoy
Vamos al capitolio estatal para la audiencia de la Camara de Represented para la licencia de conducir para todos
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HF 4 : Driver’s Licenses for All hits the MN House floor today. Thank you to artist Irving Coricci for this gift. We stand in solidarity with our immigrant community who have been fighting this issue for 20 years. Let’s get this passed MN!
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When the police break the laws, the proposed solution is always to give them more money & training.
Why isn’t that logic applied to so-called “high crime areas”?
Why don’t they get more money & education as a solution??
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To anyone confused about why the Minnesota Freedom Fund’s work— providing cash bail assistance to lower-income people— is so SO important: here you go. This is how it works. Thank you so much for your work securing meaningful constitutional rights to ALL!👇🏼 twitter.com/JuliaCarmel__/
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The for-profit bail industry is designed to extract profit from vulnerable communities.
Community bail funds support people who need bail without forcing them or their loved ones to risk their own financial security to do so.
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Ending money bail also means dismantling the immigration bond system.
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"Criminalized survivors trade one abusive environment for another. The carceral system isn’t the first harm that they experience, but it is for many by far the worst, revictimizing and retraumatizing incarcerated people."
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all of the reforms failed at the same damn time - black cops, body cameras, multiple cops on the scene, tasers instead of guns- so how is more reform the answer?
#Blacker cops? Even non-deadlier non deadly weapons? ten cops instead of five? HD body cameras? harder convictions?
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Stop worrying about how people protest, and start worrying about the reasons why people protest. Stop asking private citizens for care and restraint when government funded actors show none.
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Building a system that doesn’t allow police to murder Black people would dismantle a system that benefits from genocide and slavery. Telling community not to protest is part of the script.
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For-profit bail bondsmen "promote themselves as providing a public service, but in reality, they capitalize on unjust cash bail systems to extract their profit from under resourced individuals and families."
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Criminal justice reform organizaitons signed on in support of the Pretrial Fairness Act because they have observed how wealth-based jailing has negatively impacted individuals, their families and communities.
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Protesting is not a crime, but it’s absolutely critical that you know your rights before you’re in the streets.
It might be a good time to brush up with this primer via .
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Police violence has now resulted in the National Guard being put on standby in multiple states.
In Georgia, 1000 troops are readying to deploy following the shooting death of a forest defender. Numerous other states (incl MN) due to Tyre Nichols being beat to death by cops
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Using the same law that didn’t protect Tyre Nichols from being murdered by the law isn’t change. Systemic police culture that cloaks itself in the law while brutalizing and murdering Black ppl doesn’t end with these five officers, police everywhere are the issue.
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One of the cash bail system's hidden costs is its contribution to coercive plea bargains. People jailed pre-trial are 25% more likely to plead guilty, regardless of their actual guilt or innocence.
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Online ticket sales are closed, but you can still see The Courtroom tonight at 7 p.m.
Walk-up tickets will be available at the doors of The Riverview Theater. Arrive early to get yours!
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Tickets are FREE and still available for our special screening of The Courtroom, followed by a Q&A with the film's director and immigration experts.
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Ticket reservations for tomorrow's special screening close at 6PM. Attending the screening and post-show Q&A is free, so get yours now!
Reserve your tickets at action.mnfreedomfund.org/a/watch-the-co
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