U.S. Won't Back U.N. Calls for Probe into Mass Graves at Gaza Hospitals democracynow.org/2024/4/24/head…

Police riots at California & Texas universities today in defense of a foreign power

USC COPS VIOLENTLY ARRESTING Palestinian Youth Movement organizer

They are going nuts right now. Totally unhinged. Please share!!!

'Big corporations tell us that policies and supply chains are to blame for rising costs, but there’s a big part of the story they don’t want you to know: it’s that these giant corporations are, themselves, largely responsible for higher prices.'
inequality.org/research/why-d…

The idea that homelessness only happens to bad people who made bad choices is a comforting fairytale for a lot of people in for a rude awakening.

The #1 growing group of homeless people are seniors who have never been homeless before.

It's going to get bad.

Traditional tenant screening reports can disproportionately exclude renters of color from housing. Evidence shows households of color–especially Black women–are evicted at 2x the rate of white renters. housingmatters.urban.org/articles/how-t…

Law Center statement on today's #JohnsonVGrantsPass hearing: Punishing people for sleeping outside when there's nowhere else to go is cruel and unusual. #HousingNotHandcuffs #HomelessnessIsSolvable

Read the full statement here: loom.ly/DfxFZl8

Today, #SCOTUS will hear a case that could severely criminalize homelessness.

Formerly incarcerated people are almost 10 times more likely to be homeless than the general public – and this ruling could devastate an already vulnerable population. 🧵

Hundreds of advocates from around the country lie down with blankets in front of #SCOTUS . If they were in Grant’s Pass, they would give you a $295 ticket for sleeping with a blanket.

#housingnothandcuffs #johnsonvgrantspass

I don't really live in time, there's no yesterday and no tomorrow it's all continuous fabric.
(Sun Ra)

as a reporter covering race in America, i find myself a constant chronicler of asymmetry

In a landmark decision, Evanston, a city just north of Chicago, enacted a reparations fund for its Black residents.

Now five years later, millions in funding will be transferred to one of Illinois’s only Black-owned banks. spklr.io/6019oj6v

The weaponization and use of housing by armies in conflict and acts of gen0cide has been laid bare in Ga za. Now institutions like Columbia University are using it to suppress free expression and association.

HANDS OFF HOUSING. It's a human right, not a weapon.

‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/… The Guardian

“We are citizens of the most powerful country in the world, and it is a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on Earth. I want you to feel what that means.”

―Audre Lorde

“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did NOT die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?”

— June Jordan’s keynote lecture at Barnard College. November 9, 2001.

Moor Mother - 'Made A Circle' / 'Mangrove' - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=lacEFT…

🔊 Who’s ready for tomorrow?!

#JohnsonVGrantsPass is the most important case about homelessness in 40+ years. Will you join us outside SCOTUS during the hearing to rally for #HousingNotHandcuffs ?

Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of racial bias and economic inequality.

'The Bad Housing Blues' documents critical information about the incidence of discrimination against voucher recipients in Memphis and Shelby County. #FairHousingMonth
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Last week, CLS stood with Rep. Ismail Smith-Wade-El and former CLS board member Rep. Donna Bullock to call for statewide eviction record sealing! Eviction records do not tell someone’s full story or predict if they will be a good tenant. 1/2