California is cutting essential child care, climate innovation and jobs, while the corrections budget, which is operating at 20+% capacity surplus, is remaining largely intact. #CABudget #MayRevise #ClosePrisonsSaveBillions

'Faced with a $44.9-billion budget deficit, California Governor described a plan to shrink the size of state government and slow his progressive policy agenda by eliminating 10,000 vacant state jobs, pausing an expansion of subsidized childcare and cutting billions in funding for climate…

Budgets are a reflection of our values & @cagovernor’s #MayRevise #CABudget prioritizes prisons over people.

Instead of saving $1 billion annually by closing 5 more prisons, @gavinnewsom’s reductions to CDCr are drops in the bucket compared to massive cuts to schools + youth.…

'California Governor has often said that California is in the business of homecoming, yet his cuts to core lifelines for families and those reentering society say otherwise.'

EBC's response to #MayRevise cuts & decision not to close additional state prisons ⤵️

ellabakercenter.org/press/mayrevis…

#ClosePrisonsSaveBillions #YesOnAB2178 #CABudget

This Mother’s Day our hearts go out to the many mamas behind bars & their families and communities who suffer by extension. #ClosureIsPossible and #FreedomIsNecessary . CA can and should be a model for comprehensive reform by closing prisons with careful & compassionate planning.

'This is a critical moment to keep moving forward, not go backwards. Now is the time for Gov. Gavin Newsom to restore these programs in the 2024-25 California budget because we cannot afford to fail youth in foster care — as I was failed.' - Donald Thompson, The San Diego Union-Tribune

#CABudget …

❌ We don't need CHP roaming and harming our communities.❌

“This is a recycled, failed approach to addressing real concerns and issues. The way to address them is not by deploying more police in underserved communities.'
—Political Director Jose Bernal

latimes.com/california/sto…

Prior to COVID Oakland crime rates were at historic low, with the city just beginning to recover from its COVID economic downturn, these numbers illustrate the effectiveness of Community based violence prevention efforts and alternatives to policing to prevent violence and crime

'Closing state prisons with roughly 15,000 empty beds would reduce unnecessary expenditures by as much as $1 billion per year...

As policymakers balance various priorities, it’s crucial to avoid reactionary overspending in response to exaggerated narratives surrounding issues…

LA: Cop City.
Note that in addition to KB's proposed massive increase in LAPD spending, she wants to cut the Controller's budget: more cops, less oversight.

The violence of policing is global. All around the world, cops are the ones brutalizing people along axes of power and to protect the interests of the ruling class and the status quo. The fight to abolish the police is global.

News of a possible cease-fire was quickly overshadowed by the Israeli invasion of #Rafah on May 6.

The world must stand firmly against the continued Israeli invasion of Rafah and exert pressure on Israel to stop it — writes AFSC's Yousef Aljamal 🪁 afsc.org/news/israels-i…

“Every dollar we spend on incarceration is one we don’t spend on building homes, supporting students and fighting climate change.”

CURB explains how closing five prisons in #California is a needed investment for the future, via @LAtimes: latimes.com/opinion/story/…

'From 2017 through 2023, [Prop 47] provided more than 53,000 defendants with services such as mental health and drug treatment as well as housing, job training, diversion and legal support...

Yet despite a decade of success, misinformation abounds.' - Meghan Morris…

The epidemic of staff sexual violence w/in CA prisons shows that CDCR’s staff misconduct process deters reporting & enables more sexual violence.

Call your senators today to #SupportSB1069 (Senator Caroline Menjivar)! Call info: bit.ly/SB1069toolkit Sam Levin theguardian.com/us-news/2023/o…

LA COUNTY'S BUDGET IS COMPARABLE TO THE ANNUAL REVENUE OF PORSCHE, COCA COLA, AND GOLDMAN SACHS?!?!

Join the Budget Townhall right now to learn more

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