As we witness the largest attack on free speech on campus in our lifetimes, the silence of the phonies who spent the last decade lecturing us about free speech on campus is deafening.

Anticipating all the media outlets and politicians who decried antisemitism & violence Columbia to speak out on the NYPD macing journalists & legal observers & students at NYU just as much.

(jk)

This is beyond irresponsible. The research this is based on makes no effort to calculate the true costs of policing and corrections interventions. This is how we unleash more police violence, ruined lives, disrupted communities, and legitimate right-wing ideology.

Why do we need people w guns to do this essential work? Let's leave the rescues to FDNY.

Wild that there were 1,000 articles exaggerating how much people shoplift, but Walmart systematically ripping off their customers doesn’t get that same attention.

Recourse Leaders have to stop spending public money on fossil fuels that destroy our planet — and support a Just Energy Transition to #Renewables that do not replicate systems of exploitation. 

With us? Tap our link to sign our petition👇

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For #ChildAbusePreventionMonth , Maya Pendleton and I wrote a new piece for the upEND Movement about how we can truly create safety for children:

“Family Policing Doesn’t Prevent Child Abuse. Abolition Can.”

READ HERE: upendmovement.org/2024/04/18/fam…

Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students —>

“In her willingness to unleash state violence against student protestors, Minouche Shafik proved herself to be a willing ally to extremists” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Amazing interview today w Aqeela sherrills about the CVI work in Newark.

I teamed up with the great Mark Bittman to create recipes that take on board class, income, time and eco concerns. The result published by Mother Jones Economic Hardship Reporting Project & Mark Bittmanproject. Plz share your own recipes along these lines...motherjones.com/food/2024/04/g… Civil Eats Mike Dang

This is beyond irresponsible. The research this is based on makes no effort to calculate the true costs of policing and corrections interventions. This is how we unleash more police violence, ruined lives, disrupted communities, and legitimate right-wing ideology.

When self avowed leftists say we need more police, this is what they are enabling: fascism. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Today is the official pub date of Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics! Here's a thread on what you can expect in the book...

(Discount code UCPNEW for 30% off from UChicago Press)

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Shallow Myths Part 2.
Investigating Ineffectiveness of Police Training.

Police trainings are verifiably ineffective, and waste taxpayer money while providing cover for police violence.

ctrlaltdefund.org/blog/shallow_m…

Feminist borders are an oxymoron.

Borders, walls, jails, cages, war and occupation all disproportionally and deliberately reproduce gender-based violence.

Borders are always an anti-feminist structuring.

NEW: The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary prices. The project covers 46 states, revealing an exploitative system that forces incarcerated people to pay up to 5x the outside price for some items. theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…