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Thank you for co-sponsoring the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills to reunite families in Westchester and across the state, heal communities, and improve safety for all.
Together we will win #ParoleJusticeNY.
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Thank you for co-sponsoring the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills to reunite families in Queens and across the state, heal communities, and improve safety for all.
Together we will win #ParoleJusticeNY.
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. on the unique power of strikes is some of my favorite messaging and I've been doing labor messaging for almost 20 years. #WGAStrong
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This article says that cities like NYC have “poured money into housing & outreach teams” and links to a previous NYTs article that says: Mayor Adams “new plan is short on details of implementation and cost.”
$$$ is poured into POLICE not HOUSING & CARE!
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We had a great film screening and panel discussion at the Schenectady Central Library last night. Many participants signed up to join our campaign. The Capital Region is ready for #ParoleJusticeNY.
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Thank you for co-sponsoring the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills to reunite families by ensuring incarcerated people have access to individualized release consideration based on who they are today.
Together we will win #ParoleJusticeNY.
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NEW: RAPP's Jose Saldana tells ABC7 that incarcerated workers make license plates, hand sanitizer & even the desks that lawmakers sit at when they consider laws, working for 16 cents/hr for years and decades––and deserve a safety net. #MayDay abc7ny.com/amp/may-day-un
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WATCH: On May Day, International Workers' Day, over 500 New Yorkers gathered in Washington Sq. Park to demand rights for ALL workers.
New York’s labor force deserves respect & dignity now! Get involved w/ your local org fighting for workers' rights.
🎥: chrisgomez.video
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“If you can’t execute people through capital punishment, then you can do it through incarcerating them forever. It’s a loophole that is used to exact punishment on people that doesn’t recognize their humanity and capacity to change.” -CFJ’s Melissa Tanis
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"Theresa said that if Morris’ kidney disease worsens significantly, medical parole could be an option, but that route rarely works....'Most people with a medical clemency just about have to be dead to come out the door.'"
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We have a chance to upend these numbers May 16th by voting Helen Gym. Other candidates want to send kids to jail for violating curfews or terrorize and traumatize them with Stop & Frisk.
Our Coalition wants to invest in the young people of this city, bc we believe in them.
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"Listening to Our Revolutionary Ghosts: Resisting Anti-Black Racism and Comprador Colonialism in Tunisia" from via
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Clarence Thomas Had a Child in Private School. Harlan Crow Paid the Tuition.
The price tag could have exceeded $150,000.
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Thank you for co-sponsoring the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills to reunite families by ensuring incarcerated people have access to individualized release consideration based on who they are today.
Together we will win #ParoleJusticeNY.
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Two of our incredible leaders, Jamel and Roz, testified today before UN delegates at a hearing about the Black community’s experience with police and incarceration and urged them to consider death by incarceration sentences as torture.
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RAPP leader Roz Smith speaking about the impact of incarceration on Black women at the UN hearing
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Jordan Neely deserves to be alive. Honor is life and join this vigil today at 3PM, at the Uptown F platform, Broadway-Lafayette station.
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Honored to listen to leader Stanley Bellamy who was released last Monday after 37.5 years in prison, testifying before UN experts against Death by Incarceration sentences.
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RAPP leader Stanley Jamel Bellamy sharing his story before UN delegates of receiving a death by incarceration sentence where if he had not been granted clemency & come home 9 days ago, he wouldn’t have gone before Parole Board for another 25 years, after already serving 37 years
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Jalen Brunson really saw Jessica Alba court side and turned into Jordan
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Roslyn Smith of addresses UN experts elevating the experiences of Black women & the misogynoir inherent to the US prison system, calling on the complete dismantling of the racist system of policing and imprisonment.
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We’re in Harlem at the UN hearing on the Black community’s experiences with police and incarceration in the US. RAPP leaders Roz and Jamel will be speaking next
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Raising rents by 7% amidst reports that HALF of New York City residents cannot even afford their basic needs right now is absolute trash. Shameful.
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Things are getting wild. Picket line around the board.
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Oh shit.
Council members and tenants just burnished the stage to demand a rent decrease!
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NOW: Tenants, activists, and elected officials are protesting outside the Rent Guidelines Board meeting where the Board will take a preliminary vote on an outrageous rent increase up to 16%. Working New Yorkers cannot afford a rent hike!
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Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle are both available to play in Game 2.
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🔥 explains why she is voting no:
"I will not be among those condemning more people to the trauma of pretrial jailing. I will not be among those sending people to death’s door at Rikers. I will not be among those sending us backwards."
Thank you, AM Walker
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"If I come to [my employer] I need you to address my concerns, but not fire me, and that's why many workers are scared to talk about wage increases + discrimination on the job."
Tiffany Jade Munroe w/ shares why we're fighting to #EndUnjustFirings!
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STATEMENT: New York's leaders have hit rewind on progress with the latest rollbacks to #NYBailReform. We urge legislators to vote NO on this budget agreement in order to protect the rights, freedom, and safety of all their constituents. bit.ly/InvestInSafety
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🇨🇺 In a meeting with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel () we reaffirmed our solidarity with the Cuban people and our commitment to struggle for a better world.
#MayDayCuba2023 #OffTheList
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BREAKING: Climate activists shut down celebrity traffic outside the #MetGala trapping in van.
The 1% is killing the climate and must pay what they owe.
#TaxtheRich #MetGala
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Happy May Day!! ✊🏽 Today, we marched alongside as part of the for ALL workers—street vendors & sex workers & freelancers & domestic workers, and of course, incarcerated workers & those coming home. #ExcludedNoMore
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BREAKING: The New York State legislature released a budget bill that includes changes to weaken bail reform laws.
Our statement: "We call on all lawmakers of conscience to vote no on any budget bill that weakens the civil rights protections in our state’s bail law.”
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