Penalizing unhoused people is “a way for elected officials to push the blame on to people living in poverty instead of taking accountability for the fact that they haven’t done what is needed to address the homelessness crisis,” said Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹@jesserbnwtz.bsky.social
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Encampments are not only zones of demands & refusals, but also processes of communing, making decisions together, enacting solidarity as a verb, embodying autonomous & collective liberation. They are themselves zones of imagination, of connection, of prefiguring life & new worlds

I’ve been thinking about this all day and it’s so true.

Council President Elliott Payne - Minneapolis Ward 1 and I went to a meeting with leaders from ISAIAH (Black Barbershop Coalition, Muslim Coalition, and the Young Adult Coalition).

I was proud to speak about our encampment response policy ideas and ways we can ensure we are protecting renters.

Statement of the Barnard-Columbia chapters of the AAUP regarding the mass arrest of peacefully protesting students: “We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to reclaim our university.”

Mariame Kaba said that that hope is a discipline— not a emotion or a moment of mere optimism. It's a practice; the work we do every day striving towards what we seek. Again and again. Bit by bit. Each instance spent towards imagining/ building that new world, tears this one down.

The former cop who was hired to investigate civilian complaints at MPD (no paywall: strib.gift/2nur3aj98)

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'You never have to wait for an appointment here?'
'Oh yeah. Like all the time. And then I have to argue with my insurance company for 34 hours about whether it's covered. But in FREER way. That puts me completely at the mercy of my employer.'

Tired of having the most broken shit-ass health care system of any developed country so an unnecessary health insurance ind can make billions by grinding people into dust & millions defend it with shit like 'But, um, I heard in Europe you have to wait for an app't sometimes.'

D) SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER IS NOT THE PROVINCE OF THE DEA. At no point in their inglorious history has the DEA ever done anything to combat/prevent or help in the recovery of SUD. They are not medical professionals & routinely cosplay as baked potatoes around fentanyl.

C) The opioid crisis was fueled by the Sackler family deliberately lying to physicians & regulators about the drug. Dextroamphetamine, lisdexamfetine, methylphenidates, etc are long studied, well-tolerated medications.

OMFG not this again 😒😒😒
A) This is the year of our Beyoncé 2024. We are not listening to the DE-fucking-A.
B) For the first twenty years of ADHD/ADD diagnosis clinicians didn’t believe females COULD have it. What you’re seeing are adult diagnoses like mine.

Hello! Next weekend, on Sat. 4/27 at noon, I'll be a part of this event sponsored by Hennepin County Library and partnering with so many great organizations (IX, Housing Justice Center, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, Volunteer Lawyers Network, and more!). I'll be teaching folks how to get your landlord to make repairs. Please share!

'Why is the same university that capitalizes on the legacy of Edward Said and enshrines The Wretched of the Earth into its Core Curriculum so scared to speak about decolonization in practice?'

Indeed. Same could be said of the academy as a whole. Love the theory, hate the praxis

Additionally, we ALL have to come to terms with how many of us (myself included) were fooled by the 'good apple' act Hutch put over on us. An honest assessment on ultimately whether it even matters if he was a good guy in a system is entirely rotten.

This team is called MOHELA

Isra Hirsi (isra hirsi), Barnard College junior and organizer with CU Apartheid Divest, is participating in an indefinite occupation of Columbia’s campus in solidarity with Gaza. Organizers have remained defiant under repression and pledge to stay until Columbia divests from Israel.

I wonder if people say this because to them, it's the least offensive way of saying 'I think people who are looking for affordable housing are Black, people of color, young, and poor and my stereotypes about them are racist so I don't want them in my neighborhood.'