Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #freetheland
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1/ @CMLGonzalez pledging to divest from police & invest in community
“I think it’s important for me as an elected official, as an elected official who is a non-Black Mexican American in this country, to say that I take personal responsibility for every vote that I have taken...”
“I think it’s important for me as an elected official, as an elected official who is a non-Black Mexican American in this country, to say that I take personal responsibility for every vote that I have taken...”
2/ “...vote that I have taken that has contributed to the expansion of law enforcement and those legal systems at the expense of community based investments.
And I owe it to all of you to say that I am sorry for those votes.”
And I owe it to all of you to say that I am sorry for those votes.”
3/ “I now have an opportunity, and so do my colleagues, to reverse and correct those past votes. Those past choices. Because we know that the current public safety model does not produce safety for Black, Indigenous and Brown people.”
"@KCEquityNow & @DecrimSeattle unified under the same mission: to improve conditions on the ground for marginalized communities."
Read the story by @M_Hellman for the @seattletimes:
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
Read the story by @M_Hellman for the @seattletimes:
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
The massive coalitions that consist of "Black, Indigenous and people of color led organizations" and "individuals ranging from data analysts to community builders and lawyers...developed a plan backed collectively by decades of research & community building.”
"@KCEquityNow’s platform centered around community ownership of land, along with acquiring funding to address the root of inequities."
"@DecrimSeattle consists of groups that had spent several years working on campaigns aimed at abolishing the incarceration system and policing."
"@DecrimSeattle consists of groups that had spent several years working on campaigns aimed at abolishing the incarceration system and policing."
(Thread) Systemic inequity is deadly. 
Failed policies and anti-Black action shorten Black lives.
Failed policies like the Seattle letting 47-acres of farmland—gifted to the City to host camps for inner-city kids—to sit vacant for over 7 years. All while Black neighborhoods remain food deserts.
Failed policies like the Seattle letting 47-acres of farmland—gifted to the City to host camps for inner-city kids—to sit vacant for over 7 years. All while Black neighborhoods remain food deserts.
Anti-Black action like the Mayor failing to invest in street-level violence prevention programs while community faces a gun violence epidemic. All while, in 28 days we've had over 40 shootings.
READ:One City. Two Neighborhoods. A 30-year difference in life expectancy.
"Babies do not choose where they are born. But their parents’ ZIP code has a shocking bearing on the quality and length of life they can expect to live."
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"Babies do not choose where they are born. But their parents’ ZIP code has a shocking bearing on the quality and length of life they can expect to live."
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"Streeterville is a neighborhood of mostly white, affluent, college-educated families living in townhomes and high-rise condominiums along the shore of Lake Michigan. A baby born there in 2015 could expect to live to 90.
In nearby Englewood, a poor, predominantly Black neighborhood of low-rise apartments in the shadow of Interstate 94, a baby born in 2015 could not expect to reach 60."
A 30-year difference in life expectancy.
A 30-year difference in life expectancy.
Featured Member Organization: Wa Na Wari
“The whole premise of @KCEquityNow is in the name: equity. People talk about equity as if it has to do with equality but equity has everything to do with ownership.
(Continued in thread) #Unity #FreeTheLand #EquityNow #BuildAfricatown
“The whole premise of @KCEquityNow is in the name: equity. People talk about equity as if it has to do with equality but equity has everything to do with ownership.
(Continued in thread) #Unity #FreeTheLand #EquityNow #BuildAfricatown
“It has everything to do with the inherent value of agency, of being able to be self-determined. That’s what Wa Na Wari is about. It’s about ownership. It’s about self-determination, it's about agency. It’s about being able to imagine the future we want and actively creating it.
“To join a coalition that embodies that those values in communities, none of this is doing this work alone. We’re more powerful together…We don’t want to be alone out here doing what we’re doing.
FREE THE LAND! Edward Onaci (@onaci7) on the History of the Republic of New Afrika
#BlackAugust …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/free-the-land-…
#BlackAugust …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/free-the-land-…
In this episode we talk to @onaci7 about the history of the New Afrikan Independence Movement, the development of key principles of New Afrikan Political Science and the PGRNA …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/free-the-land-…
.@onaci7 touches on contributions of key figures in the New Afrikan tradition such as Queen Mother Audley Moore, the Obadele Brothers, Chokwe Lumumba, Nkechi Taifa, Robert F. Williams and Mutulu and Assata Shakur and others …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/free-the-land-…
(A thread) Read our latest Black Joy Newsletter: mailchi.mp/7a8f65cba7f1/k…
"It is critical—particularly now—to properly engage with anti-Black racism to upend the current permanent racial caste system.
So, how can you do that?
First, become reacquainted with “racial realism."
"It is critical—particularly now—to properly engage with anti-Black racism to upend the current permanent racial caste system.
So, how can you do that?
First, become reacquainted with “racial realism."
"Racial realism" is the understanding that with current legal and societal structures, Black folx will never reach full equality in America. Said differently: the moral arc of the universe does NOT bend toward justice...
...and there is no magical moment in the future where whites and Blacks converge—as evidenced across many metrics, most notably the immutability of the wealth gap...
ICYMI: Takeaways from the 7/15 @DecrimSeattle & @KCEquityNow budget meeting with @SeattleCouncil (a thread)
For the full detail, check out the 13-page blueprint here: documentcloud.org/documents/6989… #DefundSPD
For the full detail, check out the 13-page blueprint here: documentcloud.org/documents/6989… #DefundSPD
"This is about broadening the number of tools that we offer to community and investing upstream…to protect our community as well as investing in their health.” @CMTMosqueda
Calling for cuts to the 2020 SPD budget beyond the $20M already identified. 50% cut will be taken from the remaining Summer/Fall SPD budget and will be phased in over time. Redistributing 2020 budget now will empower the community to fully re-envision 2021 budget.
A thread:
"Black study and resistance must begin with love.
To love all is to fight relentlessly to end exploitation and oppression everywhere, even on behalf of those who think they hate us.
To love this way requires deep study and relentless struggle."
"Black study and resistance must begin with love.
To love all is to fight relentlessly to end exploitation and oppression everywhere, even on behalf of those who think they hate us.
To love this way requires deep study and relentless struggle."
According to Black legal scholar Robin D. G. Kelley, Black resistance involves an endless cycle of love, study, & struggle. But we think it's equally important—as we toil for liberation—to pause intentionally and revel in the small and large moments of celebration...
Today is one of those moments.
Its been reported that a veto-proof majority of Seattle City Council publicly pledged to repurpose 50% of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) budget for pro-community initiatives, in support of @DecrimSeattle & our joint budget proposals.
Its been reported that a veto-proof majority of Seattle City Council publicly pledged to repurpose 50% of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) budget for pro-community initiatives, in support of @DecrimSeattle & our joint budget proposals.
TODAY’S POLITICAL ED: Let’s assess multimillionaire @majordurkan’s—daughter of former WA representative and senator, and the embodiment of entrenched, elite white privilege—most recent PR blunder: the assault on CM Sawant.
This is violence in action. @MayorJenny is leveraging the weight & power of an inherently racist legal system to intimidate and smear her political opponent, all the while failing to address that her constituents are being beaten and murdered by her City police officers.
10s of thousands of people are protesting police brutality and racial injustice in Seattle, yet what inspires a strong, direct response from @MayorJenny? Not black lives, not civil rights, not First Amendments freedoms, but the Durkan mansion—aka white property...
