Last month community rallied in solidarity with hunger strikers facing vindictive prosecution for participation in the historic hunger strikes of 2011 and 2013 to end solidarity confinement in CDCR. Read statement from elder Sitawa Nantambu Gamma✊🏾
siliconvalleydebug.org/stories/sitawa…

After days of Biden repeatedly condemning campus protests as antisemitic, pro-Israel demonstrators have now violently attacked an encampment at UCLA, calling for a 'Second Nakba!'

Biden was warned his increasingly hostile rhetoric would fuel this kind of violence.

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🗞🔥NEW op-ed by Assemblymember Phil Ting (@philting) and CURB Executive Director Amber-Rose Howard (@rosesare_read) on #AB2178 (Ting) in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Timesopinion ⤵️

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#CloseCAPrisons

Nikita a Black mama we bailed out a few years ago on a $300K bail has won her case! Because of community support and Black love she’ll be home for Mother’s Day. 🖤❤️ #FreeBlackMamas

On Friday, April 26, @Richmondpulse published “Q&A CURYJ Support Victims and Works With Youth to Build Empathy.” Interviewing Ricardo Garcia-Acosta, CURYJ’s Director of Community Peace about tactics and strategies employed to prevent violence and crime in Oakland.

A great thread on the powerful impact of #participatorydefense and pretrial release. Instead of seven years in jail, he continued his life and demonstrated his innocence.

A Guardian investigation found that private companies have made $100million clearing homeless encampments in California. Highly recommend you read the piece. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

“People held pretrial are four times more likely to be sentenced to prison and those held on bail are nine times more likely to plead guilty.” NBC10 Philadelphia covers Philadelphia Community Bail Fund’s #FreeBlackMamas campaign: nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/ini…

Meet Jon. A leader for criminal justice in NYC. Bail reform allowed him to care for his ailing father. Change his air filter. Run errands. While working w/ his attorney to fight his case. “Freedom should NEVER be taken for granted.”

His freedom story:

It was an honor to be in D.C. today with The National Council for the #FreeHer march and rally. The RAPP crew from NYC and LI was represented.

We need meaningful opportunities for release here and across the country. Bring moms home before Mother’s Day!

Thank u Alec! The Humphrey decision that you, the Civil Rights Corps team and San Francisco Public Defender's Office and Mr. Humphrey won is what allowed for his pretrial freedom, so he was able to fight the charges at home instead of in jail for all those years.✊🏾🙏🏾

Us formerly incarcerated are in Washington today with The National Council to bring home the sisters we left behind, their sisters, and all women suffering the trauma of incarceration. Who stands with us? #FreeHer

“Heroic” and “deescalation”? What video they looking at? Plainclothed stopped and put hands on pedestrian because mayor didn’t want him in his video shoot, then they toss in a metal baton and continue to pursue and escalate the violence. That’s some dangerous “deescalation”

An extraordinary story about freedom instead of pretrial detention.

7 long years an innocent man would’ve been locked up. Instead home w/ his family, working, living, partnering w/ his attorney. Case finally dismissed.

He would’ve probably pled guilty if he was in.