You can sign up to speak at the link below or call the Metro Council Clerk’s Office during business hours @ (502) 574-3902. Only the first 25 ppl will be allowed to register. louisvilleky.wufoo.com/forms/m1vgy7me…

Some additional details: The public will have just over 24 hours to sign up to comment on the contract. Registration closes tomorrow at 4pm. According to the issue sheets for the contracts, they were just added to Metro Council’s agenda today.

We’re so proud of our Co-Director, Nicole Aghaaliandastjerdi!

To my students: This is how you be a prosecutor.

Asheville folks join us on Saturday April 13th from 4-6pm at Firestorm (or virtually through live steam) for a film screening of Calls From Home and discussion! Building Community Not Prisons

ShamekaParrishWright 100%! As I said on the House floor, “The solution to homelessness is housing, not criminalization.”

Looking forward to continuing to work with you and other advocates for the least among us.

Please thank our Governor Andy Beshear for doing the right thing. ❤️
Today he vetoed #HB5 aka #TheSufferKentuckyAct #TheSaferKentuckyAct #TheCrimeBillof2024
#TheAttackonPovertyBill
#TheKentuckyCantAffordItBill
#povertyisnotacrime
wlky.com/article/safer-…

They’re pulling in more chairs for the DOJ meeting about LMPD reform with lots of friends State Representative Josie Raymond Rep. Keturah Herron ShamekaParrishWright

Congrats to South Carolina Women's Basketball and Coach @DawnStaley on a perfect season and their third title! It's been an incredible year for women's basketball, and this team was so disciplined and talented. Well deserved.

As a descendant of the enslaved, today I met a descendant of those who enslaved my family. He said, “I am sorry for what my family did.” And I said, “I accept your apology.” None of us can change the past but we can learn and grow from it. This has been a journey.

Sunday morning message filled with truth! 🫡

Of course the champions aren’t featured. The disrespect is real.

En la gira por EE. UU. del director Alí Bantú Ashanti, del Colectivo Justicia Racial, agradecemos a Shameka Parrish @seasoned4u, concejala de Louisville, Kentucky y al Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research AnneBradenInstitute por su cálida bienvenida.

Ha sido una grata oportunidad poder estrechar lazos y afectos, de cara a los desafíos que compartimos y las causas que nos unen, en el caminar y compartir la palabra por más justicia para el planeta y toda la humanidad en su conjunto.
Gracias al Colectivo Justicia Racial Global Exchange

Muchísimas gracias a la hermana y concejala de la ciudad de Louisville, Kentucky, Shameka Parrish @seasoned4u y al Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research AnneBradenInstitute y a este poderoso liderazgo comunitario por el maravilloso recibimiento. Hilo (1/2)

Una reforma al sistema de justicia penal, debe también reformar la policía. No queremos una justicia que funcione una gota a la vez, queremos toda la justicia que nos merecemos.

Worryingly (but unsurprisingly) Black Louisvillians and Kentuckians are fleeing the county and state.

I knew this was going to be a Jason Riley story before I even clicked the link

Climate activist Greta Thunberg detained twice at Dutch protest aje.io/ikohlc