“If there’s no data to represent you, you basically don’t exist.” -Rania Mustafa, Palestinian American CC As we celebrate the #DataDisaggregation bill’s huge win in passing through the Assembly, we urge the Senate to act on making sure every New Jerseyan is properly represented. Onwards! 🌟

In July 1839, kidnapped Africans aboard the ship La Amistad revolted, sparing the navigators in exchange for return voyage across the Atlantic. Betrayed, they would be taken to New London and later New Haven, CT for imprisonment, in a trial that would reach the Supreme Court🧵

Something worth celebrating! However, as Banessa Quiroga from Make the Road New Jersey 🦋 said, “The legislature must permanently expand the safety net to ensure individuals excluded from aid” We need more than singular fixes.

Shoutout to Policy & Campaigns Manager Laura Bustamante, named on Insider NJ's LGBTQ+ Power List! Race, sex, gender, immigration status -- our struggles for justice are intertwined, none of us is free until we all are. It's a gift to have champs like Laura on Team NJAIJ🏆🏅💐

Another #ValuesAct sponsor! Huge shoutout to Assemblymember John F. McKeon for being a #ValuesAct co-sponsor! 🌟 Thank you for standing up for the inclusion of the immigrant community at all levels and creating an #NJForAll 💐

Our Passaic compas ready for the 11th annual #TranxLatinxMarch 🏳️‍⚧️ organized by the amazing Make the Road NY 🦋 today at 5pm, Corona Plaza, Queens.

A beautiful star is born today at Corona Plaza. One of our young people sang a beautiful song for the TransLatinx march. I love our community ♥️🏳️‍⚧️

If prison and police actually prevented crime or produced public safety, the US would be the safest country in the world. The reality is that prison is crimonogenic & police don’t produce public safety. Anyone arguing for more prison & police is ignoring 50yrs of policy failure.

Our communities were all targeted by Amazon AWS. So today at @Amazon #AWSsummit, groups standing with workers, with immigrants, and against mass incarceration at home and apartheid abroad came together. Outside. And inside. 🧵

Outside, we spoke to #AWS attendees. Engineers. Consultants. Designers. Coders. We did sidewalk teach ins. We held space. They filled it with care for workers, immigrants, Black lives and Palestinians by showing their solidarity with stickers on their badges. 🧵 #AmazonHurts

Inside we shut down the AWS keynote. With back to back speakers, we gave @Amazon leadership the teach-in they didn't want: how they profit off powering devastating state violence here and across the globe, driven by greed. #AWSsummit #AmazonHurts 🧵

Release every single person the NYPD has ever locked up for weed, now.

Friday nights we set up shop on a crip block then a blood hood. It’s all love. We distribute hot dinners, a free thrift store of winter clothing and St. Joseph’s EM provides free blood pressure and glucose screenings. This is community this is mutual aid. $blmpaterson cashapp

10am Saturday in Elizabeth to #AbolishICE in New Jersey and #FreeThemAll, see you there!

proud to be part of this coalition--DSA is wholly committed to abolishing ICE and every violent, racist fragment of its abysmal legacy!

💥WEEKEND RECAP💥 As we commemorated the one year anniversary of the NJ Detention Ban this Saturday, we know that immigrants can and have won before. But our work doesn’t end with this. We’re calling for the passage of the #ValuesAct and #NewWayForwardAct NOW🗣 #ABOLISHICE

TOMORROW IN NYC, please join if you can make it!

Important seminar tomorrow (11/29, 11am) organized by Pax Christi NJ & others: “Today’s Refugees, Tomorrow’s Deportees: When Forced Migration & White Supremacy are Public Policy” register here: paxchristiusa.org/2022/11/16/reg…

There's still a brutal, racist ICE jail in Elizabeth NJ, shielded by complicit politicians, & it needs to close. Join Interfaith Campaign for Just Closures & others: 12- 2 pm on 12/10 #InternationalHumanRightsDay 2 Broad St, Elizabeth, NJ more info below--