We’re watching tonight's Montgomery Council budget hearing with the MC Defund/Invest Coalition, demanding a just budget that values community support over criminalization. #BudgetVoices2022 #MoCo #JustRecovery

Thanks to Marilyn for testifying about the importance of mental health crisis response that does NOT include police officers. We must adopt a program like CAHOOTS that uses mental health professionals to answer these calls, not armed police officers. #BudgetVoices2022 #MoCo

Defund SROs and replace w/ clinical social workers! SROs DONT REDUCE CRIME and cause disparate harm to the majority of MCPS! #BudgetVoices2022 #moco @CmHucker @albornoz_gabe Will Jawando Evan Glass Nancy Navarro Craig Rice Sidney Katz Hans Riemer Councilmember Andrew Friedson

Defund police from traffic enforcement! There’s no reason traffic enforcement can’t be automated, especially considering the worst disparities happen in traffic enforcement. Black people make up 18% of the pop. but are 63% of residents searched and cited. #BudgetVoices2022 #moco

‼️ 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)

Maryland incarcerates the most young Black men in the entire nation. Police in schools are a direct pipeline. See how organizers across the state are fighting!

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

Thank you for your bold leadership Hans Riemer in calling for an end to SROs and CROs!

Thank you Evan Glass for your bold leadership in telling your colleagues the time is NOW, during the BUDGET, for police free schools.

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

A student's household income should not determine the level of diversity or opportunities at their school. We'll be hard at work this summer preparing to advocate for boundary changes next year.

Come out to our next meeting on Tuesday via zoom! Look out for the meeting info. that will be released soon! #studentadvocacy #edequity

We laugh and roll our eyes but people like this are why we are still in a pandemic, still dealing with variants, and still seeing 100s of Americans die *every day* from Covid.

The 1619 Project forces us to decide whether we love human equality or the men who articulated that principle but violated it every day. We can't do both.

HAPPENING NOW: #MoCo hearing on Bill 49-21, which fails to ensure community oversight of policing. @albornoz_gabe Evan Glass Hans Riemer Will Jawando Councilmember Andrew Friedson Craig Rice Sidney Katz Nancy Navarro @CmHucker - we urge you to substantially revise the bill! 🧵

1199SEIU MD/DC Djawa Hall Thank you to MCPS students Kyson Taylor from MoCo Against Brutality and Amari M from STEPS for your powerful testimony tonight! We know that having true community oversight of police is so important for the safety of you and your peers. #PoliceAccountabilityBoard

Please join students tomorrow! Young People for Progress Racial Justice NOW! 👦🏾👧🏾 MoCo Against Brutality STEPS Jews United for Justice Rally for Police Free Schools tomorrow. ****Thurs, Feb. 24****. 4:30-5:30 pm MCPS Board of Education, 850 Hungerford Dr, Rockville