🚨 EMERGENCY ACTION 🚨 Tonight 3/17. 7PM @ the intersection of H and 7th NW. We’ll be hosting a vigil and march to remember and honor the 8 lives lost yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia and the countless number of Asian individuals harassed and assaulted.

TRIGGER WARNING: MCPD has released the body cam footage I have been requesting related to the 5 year old detained by police, my statement and a link to the footage below.

LINK IN BIO TO RSVP. Today at 7 PM, we will be holding a joint Anti-Asian Violence Healing & Processing Space with MoCo’s Asian American Progressive Student Union. While all are welcome, AAPI voices will be centered. Please join us and stand in solidarity against Anti-Asian hate.

Interesting news this a.m.: In announcing the creation of a new task force to determine what social-emotional supports MCPS students need, Council Member Craig Rice says he no longer supports having SROs in schools. Rice has been a strong supporter of the program in recent years

He said his opinion has changed/evolved after listening to “passionate testimony” from students over past year. And, he said, many of the reasons he supported SROs (mentorship, community building) can and should be accomplished with other adults.

LEOBR has been successfully repealed! 🎉🥳 Thanks to all the organizers and testimony-givers for working hard behind the scenes to make this happen!

‼️ CMs Will Jawando and Craig Rice call for SRO removal + new taskforce for student supports ‼️ Huge s/o to student groups Young People for Progress STEPS MoCo Against Brutality MoCo Students For Change @sunriseslvrsprg @AA_PSU Youth for Equity Youth Creating Change for your work on #PoliceFreeSchoolsMoCo! (1/7)

Thank you to all of the students who testified, wrote emails, protested, and changed minds. Let’s keep pushing for #PoliceFreeSchools in MoCo.

The verdict reflects what we've known all along — Derek Chauvin is guilty. #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter

Congratulations to Hana O’Looney, who has been elected the student member of Moco BOE for the 2021-2022 school year! montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.as…

What motivated you to get vaccinated?

The MC Defund/Invest Coalition opposes the County’s New Reimagining School Safety Initiative Montgomery Council Will Jawando Evan Glass Craig Rice Sidney Katz Nancy Navarro @albornoz_gabe Councilmember Andrew Friedson @CmHucker Hans Riemer

Joseph Bostic Jr., a math content specialist and eighth-grade team leader at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Germantown, was named the MCPS Teacher of the Year bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/…

No student should have to walk to school in unsafe conditions like this but it happens everyday in our county due to under investment in our Safe Routes to Schools program. These students are walking on Norwood Rd to get to Blake HS. We must do better. #VisionZero #Infrastructure

If we fully build the network of trails across MD, VA & DC we could create more than 16k jobs and generate more than $1 billion a year in revenue from construction and local spending. Our parks and environment would benefit too. It's time to complete the Capital Trails Network.

There are countless inequities that need to be addressed before a potential full return to in-person learning next semester. No K-12 student should have to worry about receiving a warm meal. MoCo/MCPS should not be considering doing this.

There are 160,564 students in MCPS. The Board of Education workgroup tasked with getting a comprehensive view of the SRO (police in schools) program talked to 3 students... this is laughable.

Watch the fate of the SRO program be decided! DM for link

Final Boundary Analysis Report: “The models presented in this report suggest it is possible to improve diversity between nearby schools, without significant impacts to proximity” (Page 14). Retweet this to spread the word. Stay tuned, MCPS. #Equity #Diversity

We’ve had over 5 mass shootings in the past 2 weeks in Florida. We NEED to handle gun violence with more urgency. We lose 100 people a day and our “leaders” care more about keeping trans kids from playing sports. Ron DeSantis do you care about children being murdered?