A guide to “homeless encampment engagements” in Washington DC (updated) ... Or “so you want to help protect your neighbors from the state” A thread 🧵 🪡 1/12

Names & ages of those slain in the Buffalo Massacre only scratch the surface. Celestine Chaney, 65 Roberta A. Drury, 32 Andre Mackneil, 53 Katherine Massey, 72 Margus D. Morrison, 52 Heyward Patterson, 67 Aaron Salter, 55 Geraldine Talley, 62 Ruth Whitfield, 86 Pearl Young, 77

Mayor Bowser did her press conference today at Potomac Gardens, a public housing complex in Capitol Hill. It was about wifi expansion. This is a note residents passed her about serious concerns they have about living conditions

Earlier this month, we published an Op-Ed in 730DC outlining how police spend their time. Today in #PoliticalEducationMondays, we breakdown the op-ed by the numbers and ask - what do we really pay MPD to do? Read the whole piece here: bit.ly/MPDOvertime 🧵

San Francisco’s poverty rate is 10%; Detroit’s is 33%. San Francisco’s unemployment rate is 3%; Detroit’s is 20%. Yet, San Francisco’s homelessness rate is a whopping 3 times higher than Detroit’s. Why? If you want to understand homelessness, follow the rent:

If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control

Women already experience policing, surveillance, violence and checkpoints too but because they aren’t white I guess you hadn’t noticed Maybe you forgot to save some of your outrage for us

The world is (and has been) completely on fire, but I’m surrounded by firefighters. I feel a deep gratitude for this.

Black queer and trans people have the right to affirming and supportive reproductive healthcare. Unfortunately, that’s not the norm for most of us. Our research team wants to understand why and build multi-level responses needed to improve our healthcare experiences. Help us?

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Join us on September 20th at 6:30pm for Coffee & Conversation! For more information and to register for this event, visit bit.ly/ujima_cc_black… #UjimaCommunity #CoffeeandConversation

Ujima grant opportunity, apply by Friday. For details, visit: ujimacommunity.org/covid-19/arp/

Average rent is $2600 in DC. Average home cost is $667,745. Average wage is $37.27 an hour. So you need to make $48.75 an hour to qualify to rent an apartment, $89.56 an hour to qualify to buy a home. $15 an hour is a joke

Black Queer Canopy Therapy is back this Saturday! Herring Run. Bundle up and come through