Universities, and Columbia University in particular, have a long tradition of student advocacy, where viewpoints are tested and debate is encouraged.

Columbia rushing to call the cops on their own students for demonstrating on campus betrays that legacy.
nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

Thank you to Senators @Aishabbwahab Senator Scott Wiener Nancy Skinner for voting your values and listening to people with lived expertise. We look forward to working alongside you for real solutions!

FREE SPEECH VICTORY! With @aclu_socal, FAC has settled its lawsuit against the Temecula Valley school board and its president, Joseph Komrosky, PhD. The Temecula Valley USD president can no longer eject school board meeting attendees who don't actually disrupt the meeting .

From the inbox 📥: ACLU SoCal and First Amendment Coalition reached a settlement with the Temecula Valley Unified School District on behalf of two people who were thrown out of a school board meeting.

People can’t be removed from a meeting “without proper cause or warning” ⬇️⬇️

TOMORROW: Join the town hall on recognizing the human right to housing in California, featuring Leilani Farha 🍉, AsmMattHaney, Rasheedah Phillips, and Professor Farrah Hassen.

Register: ucla.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #HousingJustice #ACA10

Pushing unhoused people out of sight doesn’t make homelessness go away. To end homelessness, we need to address the root problem: lack of affordable housing. 

Communities are safer and stronger when we ALL have a stable place to live. Aisha Wahab 愛莎華 #NOonSB1011

Criminalization makes it harder to get folks back into housing. IDs, paperwork, life-saving meds, and important possessions all get thrown in the garbage truck.

Senators @Aishabbwahab Steven Bradford Senator Scott Wiener Nancy Skinner, please vote #NOonSB1011 .

AB 3241 is crafted to help officers avoid courtroom liability, not to reduce harm or the potential of needless injury and death.

It is past time for California legislators to reign in police attack dog violence and ensure real accountability: action.aclu.org/send-message/c…

Tomorrow: Rally to send a clear message to the Metro Board: Riders Want Deeper Metro Investments in Care-Based Safety, not cops!

Let us know you’ll be coming, click here: BIT.LY/NOMETROPD

Thursday, March 28, 2024
8:30 AM - Rally
10:00 AM - Public Comment at Metro Board

💥NEW from Keri Blakinger💥: The number of fatalities has risen so much that the annual death rate has more than doubled—in a decade where the incarcerated population has dropped by 1/3.

Today, 3/26, yet another LASD in-custody death was posted. (thread)

👉🏾latimes.com/california/sto…

California is trying to write into law the same failed facial recognition standards that have led to an increasing amount of wrongful arrests of innocent people – especially Black men.

AB 1814 would poison investigations w/tech that is racist, unreliable, & anti-democratic.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allowed the most extreme anti-immigrant law to immediately go into effect in Texas.

The law permits local and state law enforcement to arrest, detain, and remove people they suspect to have entered Texas from another country without federal

Most of us encounter police though traffic stops; more than 20 million are stopped in the U.S. every year.

But for many of us who are Black or brown, these encounters can be a nightmare.

Join our Pasadena-Foothills Chapter for a vital discussion on Driving While Black. 👇

We know it's past time to restrict how attack dogs are being used by police.

But right now, the police lobby is pushing for legislation that would unleash even more harm and give them free rein on how they use these dogs.