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Feeling really conflicted and confused post the #CopCityVote about where to go from here and also my feelings on the referendum. Grateful to people like @DaShaunLH with whom I can share my thoughts, but this thread will hopefully summarize some more.
The vote happened FIVE SECONDS ago, but we got so much national and international attention so it makes sense to want to capitalize off of that but also it is difficult to balance that with moving on the state's timeline. People need time to decompress and debrief
but that also isn't conducive with moving quickly always, which is clearly what this referendum needs. I'm not sure where I'm going to spend my efforts, but it most likely won't be with the referendum. I think people who are passionate about it should continue to be
Plans about to be revealed for yet another new jail for women & 'gender-expansive people' in NYC. As with all improved cages, these will be 'different', 'humane', 'feminist', 'gender-responsive.' Contrary to advance propaganda, there is nothing new about such 'reformed' cages. 1/
As as been the case with most 'gender-responsive' caging projects, they've given it a warm & fuzzy & neutral name: "The Women's Center for Justice." In CA 15 years ago, they were called Female Rehabilitative Community Corrections Centers. 2/
In CA, we defeated the plan. Here's a report we issued as part of that campaign: 'How "Gender Responsive Prisons" Harm Women, Children, and Families." 3/
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Two Black trans women were violently taken away from our community this week by patriarchal violence and white supremacy, and we cannot be silent about the fact that #BlackTransLivesMatter. Their names were Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells and Riah Milton. #SayHerName
They should still be here and we have to fight for folks while they’re still alive, which means fighting for housing, healthcare, safe communities, abolition, decrim, and dismantling patriarchal violence in our communities *and in ourselves.* #BlackTransLivesMatter
Black cis queers, what are we prepared to do to protect our trans, two-spirit and non-binary siblings? We need to put our bodies on the line, move resources, show up in solidarity, listen, move out the way and speak up (not over) about the violence our siblings experience.
1) The appalling invocation of @prisonculture's work on #PrisonAbolition by a city council member IN SUPPORT of building new jails in NYC teaches us two important things:
#NoNewJails #CloseRikers
#NoNewJails #CloseRikers
2) First, it teaches us that abolitionists' work of making a world without prisons enticing, exciting, and concrete has had a far enough reach, struck a deep enough chord, that the system is being made to respond at its highest levels
#NoNewJails #PrisonAbolition #CloseRikers
#NoNewJails #PrisonAbolition #CloseRikers
3) Second, it teaches us that the prison/police system is resilient, and can incorporate the language of any philosophy/stance to bolster its own expansion--EVEN ONE EXPLICITLY DEVOTED TO ITS PERMANENT TERMINATION
#NoNewJails #PrisonAbolition #CloseRikers
#NoNewJails #PrisonAbolition #CloseRikers
No surprise that Darren Walker & the Ford Foundation support building 8-12 new jails in NYC. Walker was a member of the commission that drafted the plan. His new In Defense of Nuance is a not very nuanced attack on #NoNewJails organizers opposing NYC’s jail construction plans 1/
Walker laments extremism, enemy of nuance & complexity. Rather than building consensus “based on mutual understanding or shared respect”, extremists, he argues, vilify those not in alignment with their ideologically pure position. The “perfect” becomes the “enemy of progress.” 2/
Is Walker modeling or mocking how to build “bridges and relationships based on mutual understanding or shared respect” by comparing #NoNewJails organizers to the climate change denial movement? 3/
