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If you can, consider buying a new book from a writer who has one coming out this week or in the weeks that follow.

So many authors have spent years working on book projects that are coming out in what is now a really uncertain time. Your support can make a huge difference.
If you have a new book you’d recommend for people, put it in thread below.

I’ll start: you all should buy STAMPED by @JasonReynolds83 & @DrIbram. An incredible, essential text for young people on understanding both the history & contemporary manifestations of racism. Out today.
An important reminder, always, but especially now.
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From a public health perspective it certainly seems like pausing all prison visits is the right thing to do.

Still, these visits are often the only connection incarcerated ppl have to the outside & it's the thing that keeps them going. I'm worried about the psychological impact.
With in-person visits being cancelled, all phone calls for people in jail and prison should be free. They should always be free, but especially now.
Video calls should also be made free and accessible to incarcerated people. They are not substitutes for the real thing, and should not be used as such once the pandemic has passed, but for now it's the least these prisons can do.
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A reminder that if public schools shut down, millions of children will lose their access to some of the only meals they receive each day.

Food banks will become more important, and I've learned the best way to help is not to donate your spare canned goods, it's to donate money.
“With 37 million Americans experiencing hunger, donating your extra or purchased dry and canned goods might seem like the best way to help families in need. But, the best way to support your local food bank is actually through donating money”

feedingamerica.org/hunger-blog/do…
"Rather than paying retail prices, our network of food banks works with major manufacturers, retailers, and farmers to secure healthy food...when you donate a dollar, you’re able to put more meals on the tables of families than if you donated food you'd purchased at the store."
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Whatever happens from here, I’ll always be grateful to Bernie for being the only candidate with a policy platform that includes the right to vote for incarcerated ppl.

I spend a lot of time w/folks in prison & know how much this means to them. It’s made them feel less invisible.
If you’re unfamiliar, the vast majority of people in prison are counted by the census as residents of the place where they are incarcerated, but they don’t have the opportunity to vote there. Their bodies are counted, their voices are not.

npr.org/sections/codes…
This is not to say every incarcerated person is a Bernie supporter necessarily, incarcerated ppl, like everyone else, have a complex range of views that shape their politics & beliefs.

Still, I haven’t met a single incarcerated person who doesn’t deeply appreciate his position.
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1/ The world is more materially abundant than ever, we’ve eliminated several diseases, lifted millions out of poverty.

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#NEW on ARC2020: #CAP & #MFF | Eco-Spin without Public Goods Substance.
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